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10 Films That'll Make You Want To Go Travelling After Lockdown
TV, Film & Podcasts
By Lottie Woodrow | 9th January 2021
Have you found yourself developing the travellers itch? Are you longing to kick down your front door, suitcase in hand, and run out into the wilderness?
If you're a wandering wanderlust who's yearning to get back out on the road, you're not alone. It's an incredibly difficult time for everyone right now and it's even harder knowing we can't open our laptop and book a one way ticket out of here. We've got to sit this one out, however long it takes, but these films might help curb, or simply ignite, your love of the road.
From road trip adventures to journeys of self-discovery, here's 10 films that'll make you want to get back on the road as soon as lockdown ends.
Eat, Pray, Love (2010)
Reignite your love affair with travelling with the help of Julia Roberts in this biographical romance. Based on the 2006 memoir by Elizabeth Gilbert, you'll follow the journey of rediscovery that Elizabeth, played by Roberts, takes as she uncovers three entirely different cultures and overcomes her divorce. Expect sensational shots of Italy and its vibrant cuisine, learn about spirituality during her months in India and find balance as she slowly falls in love again in Bali.
Have you ever longed to get up and escape the mundanities of everyday life? Or, felt trapped in your monotonous corporate job? Maybe all we need is one little push in the right direction and we'll be journeying into the wilderness, never looking back.
Into The Wild is based on a true story, and follows Christopher McCandless as he hikes across North America and into the wilderness of Alaska. Although the ending is slightly sad (no spoilers), you'll still find yourself falling in love with the rural side of America that we often don't see.
One girl, four camels and a dog.
Ever had the urge to run off into the outback and trek for 1,700 miles across the Australian desert? Um, as much as backpacking around Australia sounds dreamy, this sounds a little extreme. Either way though, it makes one hell of a story, which is probably why National Geographic photographer Rick Smolan (Adam Driver) decides to document the adventurous Robyn Davidson (Mia Wasikowska) on her heated journey.
"Life is about courage and going into the unknown." – Cheryl Melhoff
We all have dreams and sometimes they're left unexplored, but when Walter Mitty (Ben Stiller) has the opportunity to drop his mundane everyday life for an epic adventure, he hesitates and then takes it in his stride. Follow this hilarious comedy-drama and uncover a new side to travel and watch nature come to life before your very eyes.
Proving you're never too old to grab your adventuring dreams by their cords is A Walk in the Woods.
Award-winning author Bill Bryson, played by Robert Redford, takes up the challenge of hiking the Appalachian Trail. All sounds fine but we forgot to mention he's well into his 60s. Completing the trail is hard enough for those in their 20s, but Bill is confident he'll be able to embark on this new adventure. While his wife, played by Emma Thompson, objects to this, saying he can only go if he goes it with someone else. Eventually he ends up having to contact his old friend Stephen Katz (Nick Nolte) who is somewhat of a liability. Watch this unconventional friendship enter a new dimension as well as falling in love with New Hampshire in all of its natural beauty.
The Beach (2000)
You won't just be falling in love with the beautiful Thai coastal islands, you'll be reigniting your love with a rather dreamy, young Leonardo DiCaprio.
Based on the hit novel by Alex Garland, Danny Boyle's The Beach follows a young American guy, Richard (DiCaprio) as he sets out on a backpacking adventure to Thailand. After meeting a young french couple, Françoise and Étienne, they head off in search of a hidden beach and lagoon that he was told of by a man named Daffy.
The beach is supposedly preserved and untainted by human hands, but as they begin settling into their new life with the couple and the small community of individuals on the uninhabited island, things turn slightly sour. Regardless of what happens on this little island, you'll easily fall head of heels for its ornate beauty.
Thelma and Louise (1991)
One film that'll get you wanting to head out on that American roadtrip you've always dreamt about is Thelma and Louise.
Two best friends, Thelma (Geena Davia) and Louise (Susan Sarandon) set out on a 'brief' fishing trip and soon lose themselves in the adventure. While the stereotypical roles may have been reversed here and we get lost in the hilarity of the female buddy movie, it's also the scenery that makes this movie so special. Wind down your windows, turn up the radio and let the good times roll as you set out on your own American roadtrip adventure.
Mamma Mia! is a gift that just keeps on giving. Set on a little Greek island, (although the sequel is actually set in Croatia, even though it's the same hotel backdrop) Mamma Mia! saw millions of people fall in love with the rustic beauty of Greece once more.
It's witty, it's hilarious and brimming with fun-vibes. The centre of this narrative is surrounded by the sea, land and beaches of Skopelos.
Lost In Translation (2003)
The film shows the beautiful clash of when you visit a new place and you're utterly in awe of it, but also anxious as you don't fully know how to navigate through the city/country. Although this is often a scary feeling, it's also invigorating and opens up a world of exploration as you begin your outward journey.
Follow as an American actor Bob (Bill Murray) makes his way to Tokyo to shoot an ad film, but ends up meeting a woman called Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson), the wife of the photographer who's often left out of the limelight. A true and everlasting friendship blossoms.
Based on the 2007 novel by André Aciman, Call Me By Your Name helped to project Timothée Chalamet into the teenage heartthrob we know and love today.
Watch the romantic relationship between the 17-year-old Elio Perlman (Chalamet) and 24-year-old graduate-student, Armie Hammer flourish with the backdrop of Northern Italy's rolling countryside. There's no doubt that you won't want to be exploring this beautiful country once all of this has finished.
Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Another roadtrip adventure but this time we're following the Hoover family as they travel across the states for a pageant show.
I don't think I've ever met an individual who doesn't absolutely adore this film. Expect family bickering, pageant dramas and to be graced with a smile on your face from every scene.
I've written about the memoir recently, but it's only appropriate that I shine a light on the beautiful story and movie adaptation of Wild.
Played by Reese Witherspoon, Cheryl Strayed sets out on a 1,100 mile-long hike along the Pacific Crest Trail after a tiresome divorce. Along the way, the narrative is driven by her journey os self discovery and is mapped alongside the great rustic beauty of America.
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Thank you to all that attended the Configuration Manager and the Cloud event!
The event was set for 50 attendees, but we had 8 slots reserved for the WMUG Team to make sure we had a seat. We were fully booked within the first week. On the day, our attrition rate was the lowest we've ever seen other than when we had Wally Mead over, and we were pretty much just down a handful of attendees.
This time we wanted more speakers to fit into the day so we reduced session times from 1 hour to 45 minutes, it seemed to work, gave us an additional slot at the end of the day, as a format it seemed to go down well with the attendees.
Before we move on we would like to thank those that cancelled and informed us of their non-attendance, it allowed us to pass their ticket to the reserves, good job!
The venue @ Microsoft Paddington in London was very well laid out, all our equipment worked (there were some niggles that failed a demo, but something we can resolve next time). We'll definitely go back, and we have taken note of those that would like Reading to go back on our venue list. I'm sure we'll see Reading at some point this year, as well as new venues (North of England and Ireland) being planned.
Well done Craig Strong! We hope to see some pictures of you and whatever you get the Pi to do!
We also had a special give-away, a USB Hub that was previously owned by the generous grand-father of SMS Wally Mead. Robert Marshall had this in his stash for a couple of years and it was time to let it go!
Keith Sanderson won the prize by guessing Who owned this device? I had to hint a just a little, but I did leave it open!
And finally, not really related to the event itself, but at the venue there was a Microsoft Surface Hub and some of us gave it a spin, if WMUG had the cash and a need for a meeting room We'd love to have one of these, so super cool!
Well, what is next, keep an eye on the WMUG Tweet account as we have two additional physical events lined up for the South of England, and a possible event taking place further North, as well in Ireland. We'll announce all of this as things are locked into place.
In the meantime, please do keep an eye on the WMUG Tweet account for our announcements for further WMUG Clinics - The intent is to rerun the same sessions from this event and go further, or dwell on areas that are of interest to the audience in an informal setting.
Again, thank you for attending, and thank you again to our very cool sponsors Flexera Software!
Join WMUG on the day for System Center Configuration Manager and on-premise\off-premise Cloud sessions.
Featuring three (3) Microsoft MVP's, Robert Marshall (EM), Gerry Hampson (EM) and Sam Erskine (CDM), alongside the WMUG team, guest speakers and our event sponsor, Flexera Software.
The event is completely FREE to you including refreshments and lunch, courtesy of our sponsor for the day Flexera. Please note that registrants Name and Email address will be provided to the Sponsor, please do let us know if this is an issue for you. We view providing your details as a small token of gratitude towards the Sponsor, which enables the event to be free.
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We also have an open questions session back by popular demand, and of course some giveaways for those who make it to the end of the day.
So what are you waiting for? Register now! There are limited seats available, and as always, we expect these to fill up quickly. Don't delay or you may be disappointed. If you book and are unable to attend, please do cancel your booking via the event page so that others may take up the opportunity, thank you.
Paul Hossack - Paul is our sponsor guest speaker for this event, and will give us a demo of Flexera Software product offerings. Paul has been securing networks since 2007. A seasoned project leader and encryption specialist, and most recently hardware firewall adept, Paul is an expert in his field. Now working with Flexera Software (formerly Secunia) he brings his skills to vulnerability defence.
Paul Winstanley - Independent contractor with 20+ years experience. 7 years specialised in Configuration Manager and Enterprise Client Management. Also a CGJam Contributor and Pi enthusiast who regularly teaches kids in his spare time.
Gerry Hampson - Senior Consultant Engineer with Ergo Group based in Dublin. Recently awarded his first MVP in Enterprise Client Management through his awesome work on gerryhampsoncm.blogspot.ie and Microsoft TechNet forums.
Robert Marshall - Owner and Senior Consultant at London based Consultancy SMSMarshall Ltd, specialists in ConfigMgr. Microsoft EM MVP in Configuration Manager since 2009, and WMUG founder in 2006.
Sam Erskine- Samuel is our guest speaker, a CDM MVP, and an independent IT consultant and trainer, specializing in System Center and MS Cloud technologies. He is the content designer and lead author of several Microsoft System Center Cookbooks, and co-author of two System Center Unleashed books.
Phil Wilcock - Phil is our guest speaker, and has been in IT for a long time. Some would say too long. He started life as a farmer, ended up managing a huge Moo-Cow database (the DB was large not the cows), worked for Bill Gates for a while, co-founded 1e.com, went back to farming for a few years, trained as a Butcher and is now Director at 2pint Software, a specialist in Configuration Manager and presenter.


Reprint of an article written by MissJedi for The Eleventh Hour. The original was posted June 1999.
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How Climate Science Works
When I was an undergraduate in physics, and later in engineering, we had this quaint process where we would conduct experiments and generate data, and from these results generate conclusions.
Climate science works differently. First, political types and activists write the management summary in as alarming and as headlines-grabbing terms as they can, largely without the help or concurrence of the majority of the scientists involved in the study. Then, they spend months modifying the underlying data, models, and scientific analysis to fit this management summary.
The summary of the most recent IPCC climate survey has already been released. The body of the study, with the actual facts and models and stuff, has not been released (won't be for months) and carries this warning on the last draft:
"Changes (other than
grammatical or minor editorial changes) made after acceptance by the
Working Group or the Panel shall be those necessary to ensure
consistency with the Summary for Policymakers or the Overview Chapter."
Tags: Climate, climate science, IPCC, physics, Science
In other words, "if the facts turn out not to sufficiently fit the scaremongering, we'll just lie about the facts".
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Another reason to love the Aussies:
"In an interview with The Age last month, Mr Evans acknowledged that last September's visit by former US vice-president Al Gore to promote his Oscar-winning global-warming documentary An Inconvenient Truth had helped generate a lot of publicity on climate change.
But he described Mr Gore's film as "bullshit from beginning to end"."
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/greenhouse-sceptics-to-congregate/2007/02/27/1172338625822.html
March 2, 2007, 11:58 pm
clickster:
The IPCC is already making changes, quietly of course:
"Errors covertly corrected by the I.P.C.C. after publication And Uncorrected Errors by Al Gore"
by Lord Monckton of Brenchley, March 2007
http://ff.org/centers/csspp/pdf/20070226_monckton.pdf
Jack Harris:
Like a well known talk show host said recently, "The global warming idea and subsequent carbon footprint neutralization is the biggest scam that has ever been put on the American people."

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Peter Cleary bought out his former partner in 2007 and in the same year changed the name from DAU Motor Holdings to Tangawizi Motors and acquired the Honda franchise.
One of the aspects of the name change was the development of an image for the company seen in the typeface and layout of the name, the Gingerbread man and the pay-off line Run, run as fast as you can.
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Pacific Rim: The Black Releases First Trailer
By Megan Peters - February 1, 2021 03:25 pm EST
Pacific Rim has been out of the headlines for some time now, but Netflix is ready to bring the sci-fi series back to life. The streaming service will launch its own anime series set within Pacific Rim, and the show will be here in a matter of weeks. In fact, Netflix plans to take the show live in early March, and the service is celebrating by releasing a trailer for the revival.
As you can see below, the first trailer for Pacific Rim: The Black is here. The clip is brief as it flashes through scenes of utter destruction. The rift bringing kaiju to our planet has blown open underneath Australia, and the continent is overrun with monsters. The world is unsure of how to handle this apocalyptic event, but two characters end the trailer with hope as they step into an abandoned Jaeger with hopes of ending the conflict.
We stay, and fight. #PacificRimTheBlack streams March 4th. pic.twitter.com/Ghy4AlvUzs
— NX (@NXOnNetflix) February 1, 2021
Pacific Rim: The Black promises to tell a harrowing tale that will amp up fans of the films. Polygon Pictures is has been tasked with producing the anime with help from Legendary Entertainment. The show's executives have a two-season plan in mind for the spin-off, and the series will be one of Netflix's most expensive original anime projects to date.
If you want to know more about Pacific Rim: The Black, you can find its official synopsis below. The show will premiere March 4th exclusively on Netflix.
"There was a time when Kaiju rose from the Pacific Rim only to encounter gigantic robots, Jaegers, built to fight them back. That time has passed. Now, Australia has been overrun by Kaiju, forcing the evacuation of an entire continent. Left behind, teenage siblings Taylor and Hayley embark on a desperate search for their missing parents, teaching themselves to pilot a battered, long-abandoned Jaeger to help in their quest and give them even the slightest hope of surviving."
What do you make of this first trailer? Do you like the looks of this Pacific Rim comeback? Share your thoughts with us in the comments section below or hit me up on Twitter @MeganPetersCB.


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Two goats strut their stuff in a highly meme-able video
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If you're going to spend a lot of time online, it's unhealthy to go too long without watching a video of goats.
Fortunately, you had a great one to watch this week: Two goats (two!) strutting their stuff together. It's even better when set to music, including — but not limited to — Hall & Oates and the Bee Gees.
Which goat do you identify with? The tall boy who's a little more on beat or the smaller fellow with the super long, swingy ears? Perhaps you have the rhythm of the tall goat but the enthusiasm of the small goat. If you don't know right now, you'll probably figure it out after watching the goats strut seven times or so.
One weird thing with this one: It's become particularly popular on medical meme pages. On July 25, the medical meme account @scratchpadMD used the clip in a post about sepsis (when the human body has an extreme, dangerous response to an infection).
But even if you're not an emergency room doctor, there's plenty to love about these two dancing buddies. Please enjoy more of them below.
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Larger and More Life-like. What is the Future of Bioprinted Organs?
[Professor Jinah Jang's research team at POSTECH develops a 3D bioprinting method to produce organ substitutes at scale.]
How advanced is the technology for creating live, moving organs for the human body using 3D printers? Bioprinting research in engineering tissues with bioink containing living cells has been on the rise. Depending on the method for assembling bioprinted tissues, larger tissues or organs can be created, which is leading to a new era of personalized treatment for patients.
The research team led by Professor Jinah Jang (Department of Convergence IT Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering) with PhD candidates Yeonggwon Jo and Dong Gyu Hwang (School of Interdisciplinary Bioscience and Bioengineering) at POSTECH has developed a method for engineering organs at scale using bioprinting. The findings from the study were recently published in the international journal Trends in Biotechnology: Cell Press. Professor Jinah Jang is an accomplished researcher on tissue engineering using 3D bioprinting.
The limitations of previously published studies were that only a single tissue could be fabricated at a time, and the size of the tissue was very small. Moreover, additional elements were required for the 3D printed organs to function like real tissues.
To overcome these issues, the research team summarized and presented a new bioprinting technology to engineer the tissues similar to real tissues. In particular, the assembly method allows the possibility of creating engineered organs bigger than the previous size limit.
Professor Jinah Jang explained, "If we combine technologies such as bioprinting, new materials, and stem cells, we can produce more realistic engineered organs. In combination with robotics or artificial intelligence (AI), more automatized and elaborate methods for generation of organ substitutes would be possible in the future."
This study was conducted with the support of the Mid-career Researcher Program and the Korean Fund for Regenerative Medicine of the National Research Foundation of Korea, and the Alchemist Project of the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy.
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Pfullendorf is a small town of about 13,000 inhabitants located  north of Lake Constance in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It was a Free Imperial City of the Holy Roman Empire for nearly 600 years.

The town is in the district of Sigmaringen south of the Danube valley and therefore on the continental divide between the watersheds of the Rhine and the Danube.  The area is known as the Linzgau.

History

Early history
Pfullendorf was founded by the Alamanni tribe during their third wave of settlement and might have been named after a clan chief named Pfullo. According to another theory, it was named Dorf am Phoul (Pfuol), meaning village on the Phoul.

The area around Lake Constance, particularly the Linzgau, Hegau and Vorarlberg, came progressively under the rule of the counts of Pfullendorf from the 8th century onward. The earliest documented bearer of that name was Count Ludwig von Pfullendorf, who is referred to as the ruler of the county of Hegau from 1067 to 1116. Presumably, Pfullendorf expanded due to its proximity to the counts' castle. Count Rudolf, a partisan of the future Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa, was able to expand his family's possessions and they eventually owned fiefs from the Danube to the Grisons. Following the death of his son Berthold in 1167, Count Rudolf named the Emperor as his heir and then moved to the Holy Land where he died in 1181.

Free Imperial City

In June 1220, Emperor Frederick II elevated Pfullendorf to the status of Imperial City. However, the prince-bishops of Constance, as the biggest  landowners in the Linzgau and patrons of several religious institutions such as  Holy Spirit Hospital in Pfullendorf, continued to exert significant political influence over the whole area. At the Council of Constance (1415), King Sigismund granted Blutgerichtsbarkeit ("Blood justice" or the right to pronounce sentences of death or mutilation) to the town, a status that confirmed the city as being answerable to God and to the Emperor only.

Starting in 1383, Pfullendorf ruled itself according to a constitution that gave decisive powers to the town guilds and provided for the annual election of the mayor. A 50-member "High Council" also elected annually, was vested with executive authority alongside a 17-member "Small Council" chaired by the mayor. With brief interruptions, this guild-based constitution remained in force until 1803 and was to serve as a model for other cities.

Pfullendorf became a member of the powerful Swabian League in 1488 and took part in the war of 1492 against Duke Albrecht of Bavaria. The city was assigned to contribute 4 footmen, 6 horsemen, 4 wagons and 8 tents for the campaign.

Like a few other small Free Imperial Cities in the vicinity of Lake Constance, Pfullendorf was comparatively untouched by the turmoil that engulfed Germany during the Protestant Reformation and it was to be one of the 12 Free Imperial Cities, out of 50, that was to be officially classified as Catholic at the Peace of Westphalia, that also explicitly stated for the first time that Free Imperial Cities enjoyed the same degree of independence (Imperial immediacy) as the other Imperial Estates.

End of the Free Imperial City of Pfullendorf

Like most of the other 50 Free Imperial Cities, Pfullendorf lost its freedom in the course of the mediatisation of 1803 and was annexed to the Margraviate of Baden.

The old hospital building in the center of town was sold and in 1845 (it now houses the restaurant Deutscher Kaiser) and a new hospital opened on the site of a former monastery near the Upper Gate. The city was connected to the railway network in 1873-75.

Pfullendorf remained an administrative center in the upper Linzgau until 1936. It then became part of the district of Überlingen, and has been a part of the district of Sigmaringen since 1973. During the administrative reforms that occurred from 1972 to 1976, the neighboring villages of Aach-Linz, Denkingen, Gaisweiler, Tautenbronn, Großstadelhofen, Mottschieß, Otterswang, and Zell-Schwäblishausen became part of Pfullendorf.

Culture

The German Army's Special Operations Training Centre () is located in Pfullendorf, as was the NATO International Long Range Reconnaissance Patrol School following its move from Weingarten to its closure in 1999. In 2001 the United States Army took command of the I-LRRP School in Pfullendorf and the name was changed to the International Special Training Centre (ISTC).  ISTC is the International Wing (I-Wing) of the German Ausbildungszentrum Special Operations.

Twin towns

 Allschwil in Switzerland since April 13, 1984
 Saint-Jean-de-Braye in France since May 1, 1987

Notable Pfullendorfers

 Roderich Kiesewetter, politician
 Daniel Schuhmacher, DSDS winner for Season 6.
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Oil up as U.S. imposes sanctions on Iran, Tehran defiant
Iraqi Shi'ite Muslims hold portraits of Iran's late leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (C), Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (L) and Iraq's top Shi'ite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani during a parade marking the annual al-Quds Day.
Image: KHALID AL-MOUSILY
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/oil-falls-u-grants-iran-sanction-waivers-eight-003736585--finance.html
By Stephanie Kelly
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil prices rose on Monday after a steep five-day slump, as the United States formally imposed punitive sanctions on Iran but granted eight countries temporary waivers allowing them to keep buying oil from the Islamic Republic.
The sanctions are part of U.S. President Donald Trump's effort to curb Iran's missile and nuclear programs and diminish its influence in the Middle East.
Oil markets have been anticipating the sanctions for months. Prices have been under pressure as major producers including Saudi Arabia and Russia have ramped up output to near-record levels, while weak economic figures in China have cast doubt on the demand outlook.
News of waivers on the sanctions limited price gains, and recent weakness in equities markets have fed concerns about global oil demand, said Bob Yawger, director of futures at Mizuho in New York.
"We're not getting the price rally that many participants thought they were going to get out of the Iran sanctions situation," Yawger said.
Brent crude futures gained 89 cents to $73.72 a barrel, by 10:59 a.m. EST (1559 GMT). U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures rose 57 cents to $63.71 a barrel.
Both oil benchmarks have slid more than 15 percent since hitting four-year highs in early October. Hedge funds have cut bullish bets on crude to a one-year low.
The United States has granted exemptions to eight countries, China, India, Greece, Italy, Taiwan, Japan, Turkey and South Korea, allowing them to temporarily continue buying Iranian oil, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Monday. Some of these are OPEC member Iran's top customers.
U.S. officials have said the aim of the sanctions is eventually to stop all Iran's oil exports.
Pompeo said more than 20 countries have already cut oil imports from Iran, reducing purchases by more than 1 million barrels per day.
Iran said on Monday it would break with the sanctions and continue to sell oil abroad.
China's foreign ministry expressed regret at the U.S. move.
Combined output from Russia, the United States and Saudi Arabia rose above 33 million bpd for the first time in October, up 10 million bpd since 2010, with all three pumping at or near record volumes.
The Abu Dhabi National Oil Co plans to boost oil production capacity to 4 million bpd by the end of 2020 and to 5 million bpd by 2030, it said on Sunday, from output of just over 3 million bpd.
Data from analysis firm Kayrros showed Iranian crude production was broadly unchanged in October from September, with barrels still hitting the market alongside additional production from Saudi Arabia and Russia.
(Reporting by Stephanie Kelly in New York, Christopher Johnson in London and Henning Gloystein in Singapore; editing by Jason Neely and Louise Heavens)
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How can we manipulate a primitive object whether it be on its interior or its exterior so that it will create unexpected intriguing interior spaces, while still holding on to the simplicity of its exterior shell. For this purpose I chose an ellipsoid and that was the starting point for the explorations which followed this formal investigation.
From the offices, labs, and multipurpose studios, to the galleries, exhibition spaces, and the restaurants, I decided to divide the building's programmatic proportions into two major portions of private and public respectively. And that's where the interior forms house the more public circulation throughout the building, and the difference between the interior veins and the outer shell holds the private spaces. Having an ellipsoid general form, a diagrid was the solution to the problem of how can the shell carry the load of the building. Having broken down the smooth exterior shape to a more faceted one, it brought up the question of how can I keep the integrity of the final massing. That's where the fin shaped cladding was chosen so that it follows the curvature of the new massing alongside the existing structure to emphasize the form of the building.


Choosing the right school for your kids to go to is always going to be a difficult choice. But it's also an important one for your child's education. In fact, some people move just so they are closer to the dream school they have in mind for their children. Here are a few of the factors that you may want to consider when you are picking a school out for your own children.
Not all schools have a uniform. There are plenty that don't, and it's debatable which is the best option here. The argument for uniforms is that it creates an idea of unity and a sort of shared group or character. There are other benefits of the uniform of course. It hides discrepancies in the socio-economic traits of different students. Ultimately, this one is going to be a personal choice. But don't assume that schools with a uniform provide the best level of education. This isn't always true. If you are insisting n a no-uniform school, be prepared to move around the country to find one. The only non-uniform school that I personally was aware of, Stantonbury Campus in Milton Keynes, recently took on a uniform policy.
When you start to look at schools, you should be searching for their level of academic achievement. Some schools love to brag about how they have the highest grades in the country. Others will focus on achievements in extracurricular activities or the level of support they provide to their students. You'll usually find information like this on the school website. Schools like Leicester High School boast that 44 percent of their students reached A grades at GCSE level in 2016. Whereas Aberdeen Grammar School seems more inclined to draw attention to their high number of different faculties.
Teaching standards is another area where the best schools will be able to show off their score of 'excellent.' It is important to explore teaching standards before you choose a school. Some fantastically reviewed schools actually have rather terrible teaching standards. You need to make sure that your kids are getting the best teachers in their classes because it's the only way they are going to get fantastic grades.
You might also want to check out the stats on school leavers. How many students end up going to university and of those, what percentage gain access to red brick institutions? These are answers that are going to be important in the future and that you must ask now.
On occasion, you will find a school that promises no bullying. It's best to steer clear of these schools because there is no such thing as a school with no issues with bullying at all. The issue is apparent in all education systems. What you should be looking for is a zero tolerance policy for bullying. While it is likely that issues with bullying will still occur they will be dealt with promptly before they impact your child.
I hope you use this advice to find the right school for your child and ensure they get the high level of education that they deserve.


CCP Nullarbor has gone on record, in some of the communities surrounding EVE, saying that docking games are done, specifically for Citadels. You will not be able to dock in a Citadel while scrambled or focus pointed. The way that this information has been presented is a bit incomplete as far as precise documentation is concerned, it seems to be just for Citadels. In my opinion the best docking games happen in NPC stations where both parties can dock. That would be highsec, lowsec, and NPC 0.0. Based on what CCP has revealed, player outposts will eventually be "nuked", and need to be replaced by Citadels. NPC stations are not yet on the chopping block. So it appears that all the people playing docking games in NPC stations will get to go about business as usual. The situations this will change are docking games where only one party can dock because they own the structure, and POS edge shenanigans. I do not normally think of Sov 0.0 as the home of docking games. I have not often experienced a situation where a hostile ship was sitting on their own station trying to deagress and dock before I killed it. That mostly comes from my playstyle. I run fleets big enough to blap a ship before the aggression timer runs out. When I do solo or small gang, I do not operate in dock range of enemy staging stations where I cannot dock. I would prefer the bad guy MWDs 100 km off the station, chases me to the gate, or gets caught in my bubble. If you solo directly on the undock of a claimed station you have no time to react when other enemies undock, and because you cannot dock there, you have little incentive to hug the docking radius yourself. There is no safety there for you. However, there is one phenomenon that I have seen on sov stations that would particularly benefit from this change. Rarely residents will commit triage carriers on their undock without being willing to warp that ship to a gate or into open space. As far as docking games go however, a carrier in triage is just begging to be bumped off the station during the five minute timer anyway. On the other hand, POS edge combat constantly happens. It is not uncommon to see capitals hugging the very edge of a POS and repping or applying massive amounts of damage. It is very hard to stop a properly positioned capital from escaping to safely inside the POS forcefield if it decides things are not going its way. Defender fleets regularly duck into the forcefield as a prelude to fleeing the field. This is a major game change for POS warfare. It eliminates a severe home field advantage that allows defenders to fight with carriers, supers, and titans with very minimal risk. I have been in countless capital fleet fights where the tactic of hugging the forcefield was the defining element of the fight. From just the fights I have witnessed, if this change had been in place, there would be hundreds of additional dead capitals (some friendly to me and some not). I would have lost a titan four months or so ago. There is going to be a change in tactics. I will not dangle my titan in the wind in the way that got it to 30% armor far from the Pandemic Legion capital fleet. People will not fight with supers on the undock of a Citadel without being very confident in their ability to save them when the situation goes sour. In general, the obnoxious gamey aspect of hiding in the shadow of safety will end. People will commit to fights and victory will not slip away so often. But people will not elect to fight as often either. Knowing that the risks are now higher, they will take fewer of them. However, there are a number of different situations tangentially related to docking games that will be drastically affected by the changes. The first of these is ganking unsuspecting victims on an undock with no aggression timers involved. A common kind of camp is to set up outside of an enemy staging station with a high alpha doctrine like Tornados. When an enemy ship becomes lockable, the camp instantly destroys it. A good pilot should be able to avoid this, but many people screw up. There is no time to realize the mistake and hit dock if you accidentally let a tornado fleet lock you up. With the changes, when you undock you get the invulnerability link. The Tornado fleet cannot touch you unless you are really dumb and drift out beyond the range of the link. In the meantime you can leisurely evade any bubbles and safely warp to wherever you want to go. This is similar to the way that you can warp safely out of a POS forcefield most of the time. I do not care for this. I have gotten a lot of content camping enemy staging stations. The activity is very likely to generate a fight. This change reduces its effectiveness when it is a behavior that I believe should be encouraged. You have made a serious commitment to content when you bring a fleet to an enemy staging system.
Warping to a camped station to dock is also changed. Assume there are no bubbles. In that case, on land you automatically get hit with the invulnerability link. You cannot be scrammed to prevent your docking. Nullarbor's statement is, "The mooring will be automatic, if you are in range and not scrammed / have an aggression timer it will immediately grab you." Currently, warping to a station at 0 km is a crap shoot. Sometimes you land just a little bit away from the docking range. The Tornado fleet might blow you up. You might get bumped further out of range. But the problem is easily solvable if you have any skill. You dock by warping to an insta-dock bookmark, located well within the docking radius. The mechanic mostly punishes noobies who do not know to use a bookmark. Getting rid of it is great. The last point to touch on is moving capitals from point to point. CCP Nullabor says, "We havn't fully decided yet but cyno'ing within docking / mooring range should be ok." This is a huge change. Capitals such as carriers and jump freighters regularly travel in perfect safety from station to station by cynoing within dock range of the destination station. On the other hand, cynoing on the edge of a POS is much more dangerous. The cyno is set a minimum distance from the pos forcefield. Capitals cynoing in have to make a dash to the safety of the forcefield. Doing that is how I almost lost a titan earlier this year. This is currently the only way to travel for supers and Titans. A carrier is safe going from station to station, but a supercapitals cannot dock as of now. After the changes a titan could be moved with near perfect safety from one end of EVE to the other if the owner was willing to foot the bill to put up smaller citadels all along the route beforehand. Given that no service rigs are needed, the cost would be minimal. The invulnerability link from each citadel would protect the titan the instant it materialized. The only issue would be the possibility of bumping. We will need to see the models and how they interact to say more about bumping. Either way, when the fishing crews of various alliances realize that supercapitals are going to be safe traveling across EVE, they are going to be unhappy. Expect some angry posts on reddit from prominent big game hunters. I look forward to the meta shift this set of changes will bring. Nothing appears obviously broken to me at this point in time. The way that capitals fight will be shaken up in a very good way. It is terribly ironic that safe supercapital travel will be the result of a set of changes meant to stop docking games. I assume CCP understands that this will be the result and have chosen the outcome as desirable. Overall it looks like a decent set of changes and I look forward to seeing details.


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IAN McAULEY. Reclaiming the ideas of economics: Debt and deficits
By Ian McAuley | On 7 November 2019
An obsession with "balanced budgets", promoted by successive Coalition governments, is having serious economic consequences.
The Coalition owes much of its electoral success to a public belief in its capacity to manage the economy, even though its record in economic management speaks otherwise. In its terms in office it has neglected structural reform – in some cases reversing economic reforms. This neglect is manifest in stagnant and declining real incomes, widening inequality in wealth, weakening labour productivity, high household debt and unaffordable housing.
The Coalition has deliberately nurtured the myth of its competence by a focus on one aspect of economic management – the deficit or surplus in the Commonwealth budget. As Paul Keating says the Liberal Party has a "surplus virus" in its bloodstream.
The political appeal of the budget outcome lies in its simplicity. It's the government equivalent of our own domestic bank accounts. We also know of instances where hyperinflation has resulted from fiscal recklessness by desperate or populist governments – the US Confederacy, the Weimar Republic, Zimbabwe, Venezuela.
But even within the conservative traditions of mainstream economics, there is nothing "bad" about a budget deficit, and nothing "good" about a budget surplus. To continue with the domestic analogy, most of us have gone into debt at some stage to buy a house. And we would surely not judge someone to be a good economic manager if they had accumulated a big surplus in their bank account while neglecting to spend to fix the brakes in their car or skimping on spending on food.
So too with government; running its bank account – fiscal management – is one small, but over-emphasised, aspect of economic management.
One of the basic responsibilities of government is to stabilise the economy – to counter the swings of the business cycle. If the economy is in a downturn with rising unemployment the government steps in with a stimulus; if it's overheating with high inflation and shortages, the government should step back.
That's how governments, Coalition and Labor, have been managing economic stabilisation for the last fifty years (and longer), as shown in the graph below. The red line shows outlays, the blue line shows receipts (mainly taxation), and the deficit or surplus is the difference between the lines.
Unsurprisingly it shows that governments, in line with orthodox theory, have engaged in stimulus spending following economic shocks. The Whitlam Labor Government had the bad luck of holding office just when the fixed exchange rate mechanisms of the Bretton Woods order fell apart and as the first oil crisis sent shockwaves through the world economy: it would have been grossly irresponsible for it not to have run a deficit in response. In 1983 it was the Coalition's turn for bad luck, for the "Volker shock" occurred on their watch when the US Federal Reserve raised interest rates from 11 per cent to 21 per cent.
In 2007, after barely a year in office, the Rudd Government had to deal with the GFC. As the graph shows there was a sharp drop in revenue, and thanks to quick and decisive action, a sharp rise in spending. Some economists criticise the Rudd-Gillard Government for not having withdrawn its stimulus sooner, but whatever they did, there would be a run of deficits during their time in office allowing the Coalition to associate Labor with deficits. It was easier and more politically convenient to demonise Labor than to explain the mechanisms of conventional Keynesian counter-cyclical management.
The Coalition's claim to economic responsibility was helped by its run of surpluses during the 13 long years of the Howard Government, a government that enjoyed the benefits of a huge gain in revenue resulting from the Hawke-Keating reforms (notice the sharp rise in the blue revenue line) and a surge in commodity prices.
The consequences of the deficit obsession go well beyond its use in the Coalition's anti-Labor armoury. It has also meant that while public sector debt has been kept in check, private sector debt, particularly household debt, has accumulated. The graph below shows how household debt has risen over the last thirty years: Australians held back for a couple of years following the GFC, but as wages stagnated and as households had to dig into their own finances to compensate for cuts in government expenditure, household debt climbed once more, and is now being encouraged by low interest rates and by the government spruiking the real-estate market.
In short, as a result of the obsession to balance the books, debt has been privatised. Through their taxation and spending powers governments have more capacity to absorb shock than households – that's what Keynesian stabilisation is all about, but for the sake of impression management that debt has been shifted off the government books and on to those with least capacity and competence to deal with it.
The government debt obsession has even wider consequences. Trapped by its own rhetoric and a promise to bring the budget back into surplus, the present Coalition Government is politically unable to engage in fiscal expansion, even as the economy is showing signs of hard times ahead.
It is also trapped by accounting standards that apply in our federation, because any capital grants the Commonwealth makes to the states for capital purposes – a new road or rail line, even a new dam for the National Party – shows up as an expense on the Commonwealth's books, rather than as a capital expenditure to be offset on the balance sheet. That's one reason our infrastructure is not keeping up with our population growth. A firm enjoying assured growth would borrow to finance new and replacement assets, particularly when interest rates are low. But successive Coalition governments have chosen to talk only about cash budgets (with only minor accrual adjustments), rather about public balance sheets.
A mature public discussion on government finances would be in the context of the wider economy. It would be about stabilisation policy. It would be about all debt, not just federal government debt but also state government and private sector debt. It would be about the use of debt: is it being used to fund productive public assets? It would be about opportunities for public investment, particularly at times such as the present when corporations are holding back and governments have the opportunity to borrow at historically low rates.
(As an endnote I acknowledge that I have not mentioned the theory of Modern Monetary Theory, a point raised by many readers of this series in Pearls and Irritations. I have deliberately stuck to economic orthodoxy, although I know that the orthodox model is not quite coping. There is nothing in MMT that contradicts the basic prescriptions of traditional Keynesian economics, however. If anything it strengthens them.)
This is the eighth of a series of articles in Pearls and Irritations on reclaiming the ideas of economics. Others so far have been:
General introduction (September 19)
Aspiration (September 26)
Jobs and Growth (October 3)
Society, economy and the environment (October 10)
Regulation and deregulation (October 17)
Taxes (October 24)
Globalisation (October 31)
Ian McAuley is a retired lecturer in public finance at the University of Canberra and a Fellow of the Centre for Policy development
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Q: Automatically taking the newest transitive dependency in maven Consider a very common situation when a project depends on 2 libraries, each transitively bringing a 3rd library of different versions:
Project A:
    Library B:
        Library D: version 1
    Library C:
        Library D: version 2

I can use maven enforcer plugin's dependencyConvergence rule to detect such problems and then directly specify the version of Library D in my Project A's pom in e.g. <dependencyManagement> section.
But this creates another problem: now I have to manually track the version of library D even though my project does not directly use it.
Every time I change the version of either library B or library C, I have to remember to also update the version of library D in my project. It's very easy to forget!
Is there a way to tell maven to just use the newest version of a transitive library?
Something like:
<dependencyManagement>
    ...
    <dependency>
        <groupId>path.to</groupId>
        <artifactId>library-D</artifactId>
        <version>
            <use_newest_one_from_all_transitive_dependencies_please/>
        </version>
    </dependency>

Is there a way to achieve this?

A: No, as khmarbaise already said, this is not possible.
The resolution rule sits deeply in Maven itself. You can check the result of the resolution (as you already mentioned), but you cannot change it.
We decided to fix nearly all the versions of transitive dependencies by using appropriate BOMs (lists of dependencyManagement) that we import in the <dependencyManagement> section. This guarantees that all dependencies come in recent versions. It does not guarantee that everything fits together. But using the newest version as standard would not do that either.

A: You could just add the dependency and then manage it automatically, as suggested here. This uses the Maven Versions Plugin. Granted, it would take the latest version, not the latest transitive dependency version. Version ranges are also a possibility, but using them is discouraged.

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Qantas QF767 : The Final Flight of the Boeing 767
Well we've known the B767 days were numbered in the Qantas fleet for quite some time now, but since Alan Joyce fast-tracked his turnaround plan for the airline, the day came somewhat earlier than many had hoped. December 27, 2014 was the final day of Boeing 767 passenger operations for Qantas, and indeed it would be the final flight of a Boeing 767 with passengers in Australian domestic service period. The Boeing 767-200 and Boeing 767-300 have been an integral part of the aviation scene in Australia since about 1983 (with Ansett) and for many it was the preferred method of travel between the east coast capitals for decades. The type has been in service with Qantas for 29 years and was it's first twin engine aircraft. So it was with some sadness that I booked my seat on flight QF767 from Melbourne to Sydney to farewell what I think has been a very significant part of Australian airline history. Here is how I experienced the day....
Quick Trip Around Asia : The Videos
In case you are not subscribed to my YouTube channel, here are the videos associated with part 1 and 2 of this latest series of reports: And for a sneak peak at Part 3, here is the video of the flight Bangkok to Tokyo Haneda: Enjoy!
A Quick Trip Around Asia Part 2 : Thai Airways First Class Sydney to Bangkok Boeing 747-400
After arriving from Melbourne on QF400 I collected my luggage (Qantas won't interline to non alliance partners on separate tickets anymore), and took the train between terminals. They charge $5.70 for this 2 minute journey, which other airports in the world charge to transfer between terminals I wonder? Qantas does offer an inter-terminal transfer but I couldn't use this as it is airside and I had to go landside to get my luggage. Fortunately the luggage didn't take too long and I was over at the Thai check-in counters by 8am. Here are the details of todays flight: FLIGHT TG476 AIRLINE Thai Airways International ROUTE Sydney to Bangkok Suvarnabhumi GATE DEPARTURE 10.00 (Scheduled) / 10.02 (Actual) GATE ARRIVAL 15.25 (Scheduled) / 15.44 (Actual) FLIGHT TIME 9 hours 12 minutes airborne AIRCRAFT Boeing 747-400 HS-TGO Check-in for Royal First, Royal Silk and Economy
A Quick Trip Around Asia Part 1 : Qantas Business Class Melbourne to Sydney Airbus A330-200
Last month I decided I needed to satisfy my cravings to fly again so I planned and booked a very hectic 6 day trip from Melbourne including stops in Bangkok, Tokyo, Osaka and Hong Kong. This is my report of the flights I took on this trip. They include Qantas business class, Thai Airways first and business Class, Japan Airlines economy class, and EVA Air business class, including a Hello Kitty flight. This post is about the first part of my trip, the short hop between Melbourne and Sydney to connect up with Thai's 10am service to Bangkok. I have done this a couple of times before and I always choose the QF400, 6am service. It is almost always on time and leaves a nice 2 hour 30 min transit time in Sydney. The only downside is just how early in the morning it is. Since I was flying onwards in First Class from Sydney, it seemed only natural to fork out a few extra points and fly in business class on the first leg. Here is the review of this short flight: FLIGHT
Air New Zealand B787-9 Premium Economy (Sydney to Auckland)
Earlier this year Air New Zealand announced the retirement of it' Boeing 747-400 fleet. As part of the farewell celebrations they scheduled a one off Auckland-Sydney-Auckland service, and as a fan of the Jumbo Jet, I booked a ticket. Sadly about a week before the flight the airline cancelled the service with no explanation. It was quite disappointing. However, the replacement aircraft was the brand new B787-9 and that would be a new type for me so I decided to go ahead and fly anyway. I managed to snag a seat in the Premium Economy cabin for a small surcharge, but please be aware that whilst I had a premium economy seat, ANZ do not offer a premium economy service on Trans-Tasman flights. So the soft product that you will see on this review is identical to the basic 'Seat Only' economy class service. FLIGHT NZ104 AIRLINE Air New Zealand ROUTE Sydney to Auckland DEPARTURE 12:30 (Scheduled) / 12:28
Regional Express Saab 340B : Melbourne to Wagga Wagga ZL3258
The Saab 340 has been on the Australian aviation scene for about 30 years, and it is still going strong. In fact we are home to the world's largest operator of the type, Regional Express, or simply 'Rex'. Rex was created after the collapse of Ansett Australia and is the amalgamation of the former regional airlines 'Hazelton' and 'Kendell'. They fly a fleet of almost 50 of these Saab's to many regional destinations throughout the country. Today I would be flying on the morning service between Melbourne and the NSW regional city of Wagga Wagga. FLIGHT ZL3258 AIRLINE Regional Express 'Rex' ROUTE Melbourne to Wagga Wagga DEPARTURE Schedule 0900 / Actual 0930 ARRIVAL Schedule 1000 / Actual 1030 FLIGHT TIME 45 minutes airborne AIRCRAFT Saab 340B VH-EKH (Age 19 years)
Etihad First Class - Abu Dhabi to Melbourne on the B777-300ER (EY460)
I was incredibly lucky a couple of months back to try out Etihad First Class on my flight home from Abu Dhabi to Melbourne. Here's my review of their premier product.... FLIGHT EY460 AIRLINE Etihad ROUTE Abu Dhabi – Melbourne DEPARTURE 22.20 ARRIVAL 17.30 FLIGHT TIME 13 Hours 10 Minutes AIRCRAFT Boeing 777-300ER (A6-ETM) My day actually started in the airport hotel, the Premier Inn Abu Dhabi International Airport. I was there during a long layover. It's a basic but very good quality hotel and I found it very comfortable. I would recommend it to anyone with long transits. It is connected to the terminal complex and very reasonably priced. I departed the hotel at about 7.30pm, and checked the departures board as I left:
Qatar Airways Boeing 787 Business Class : Munich to Doha QR58
A few months ago I was looking for interesting ways home from Europe when I discovered award availability on Qatar Airways business class from Munich to Doha. Since the flight was with a carrier I had never flown before but heard great things about AND on the Boeing 787, I jumped at the chance and booked right away. I used Qantas frequent flyer points for this booking, which was possible since Qatar Airways have joined the oneworld alliance. FLIGHT: QR58 DEPARTURE: Munich @ 16.35 ARRIVAL: Doha @ 23.05 CLASS: Business Class AIRCRAFT: Boeing 787-8 PASSENGER LOAD: 18 out of 22
Etihad Regional (Darwin Airlines) Saab 2000 : Stansted to Dusseldorf (F7275)
As part of a trip to Europe recently I wanted to try and fly on something a little bit different. Whilst researching ways to get from London to Munich I found a route sold by Air Berlin from Stansted to Munich via Dusseldorf with the first leg being flown by Etihad Regional on a Saab 2000! With so few Saab 2000's in operation, and certainly none in Australia, I jumped at the chance. As it turns out I flew on the first day of Etihad Regional operations to London's Stansted Airport. FLIGHT: F7275 (Etihad Regional, operated by Darwin Airlines FROM: London-Stansted @ 16.10 TO: Dusseldorf @ 18.25 I took the train from London to Stansted which was convenient, fast and easy (although I think expensive at approx $40 AUD one way, next time I need to book in advance):
MH17: Thoughts with the victims and their friends and families
I was absolutely shocked to see the news of MH17 unfolding over the last 24 hours, I am truly devastated. I would like to express my condolences to the families, friends, coworkers and anyone who know those who died. It really is quite incredible that another disaster has hit Malaysia Airlines. It's hard to express how most people feel, it could easily have been any one of us who perished. Rest in Peace.
Cathay Pacific Business Class : CX134 Melbourne to Hong Kong
Last month I finally got to try out the latest Cathay long haul business class seat. It was a long time coming I suppose since the seat has been in operation for well over a year and now features on all flights between Australia and Hong Kong. All CX flights to Australia are operated by the Airbus A330-300 in a 3 class configuration with economy, premium economy and business class. Today I will take a look at flight CX134 which departs Melbourne at 7.40am during the winter months, and 8.40am during the summer months. I warn you, there is a lot of photos... 51 in total! A fairly quiet check-in zone at MEL
Turkish Airlines Business Class : TK65 Bangkok to Istanbul on the A330-200
Turkish Airlines has been rapidly expanding in recent years and now has a huge worldwide route network that rivals that of the big middle eastern carriers. I had heard good things about the airline so I decided to give them a go and visit Istanbul for the first time. The flight I am reviewing today is TK65, the daytime service from Bangkok to Istanbul. When I booked it was scheduled to be on an Airbus A330-300 with the latest business class product. Unfortunately when I went on Flightradar24 the night before the flight to see which aircraft had left Istanbul to operate the service I found out my flight had been swapped to the smaller A330-200. I suppose the fact that there was a military coup with strict curfews in place in Bangkok at the time meant that the flight would be lightly loaded but unfortunately it meant I would be stuck in the older and much less exciting angled lie flats for the 10 hour journey. Disappointing but there was nothing I could do about it. Turkish
Cathay Regional Business Class on the A330-300 : Hong Kong to Bangkok CX703
On my recent 'flyventures' I had an opportunity to sample the new regional business class offering of Cathay Pacific. Whilst I say new, it is in fact already a bit over a year old, but it is the latest product offering from Cathay for regional flights. This product is used on short to medium haul flights, I think services to India/Pakistan/Sri Lanka may be about the longest flights that feature this product. My flight today was CX703, a 17.05 departure to Bangkok from Hong Kong, which continues on to Karachi. The aircraft was an Airbus A330-300 B-HLO, a 13 year old aircraft delivered new to Cathay in 2001.
The Jetstar Boeing 787
Jetstar are slowly changing the long haul fleet over from the Airbus A330-200 to the Boeing 787-8 and so far they have 4 aircraft in service. I recently took a ride on VH-VKE which was just 2 weeks old at the time. I rode on it between Melbourne and Sydney, which was a domestic tag for a flight that originated in Phuket. As such it departs from the international terminal but they do sell tickets for domestic passengers too. VH-VKE at the gate
Just an update as to what is coming up on the site.... I recently took a ride on a Boeing 787 for the first time ever, it was just a short flight from Melbourne to Sydney on Jetstar but it was fantastic. Expect a full pictorial report tomorrow night. As for my upcoming travels I have the following to report on over the next couple of weeks: - Cathay Pacific business class long haul A330 configuration - Cathay Pacific business class new regional A330 configuration - Turkish Airlines business class A330-300 - British Airways euro traveler (economy) on the B767-300 - Etihad Regional on the SAAB 2000 - Air Berlin economy on the A320 - Qatar business class on the B787 dreamliner - Qatar economy class on the A320 - Etihad diamond first class on the B777-300ER So as you can see there is lots to look forward to, all new products that I have never reviewed before. So stay tuned.
Virgin Australia VA878 : Boeing 737-800 Sydney to Melbourne in Economy
It is probably obvious to my readers that I am more of a Qantas/Jetstar flyer domestically in Australia, but in the interests of fairness here is a look at a short flight I took recently on Virgin Australia between Sydney and Melbourne. The flight is VA878, the 6.30pm departure from Sydney with an arrival time of 8.05pm. The flight I took was being operated by VH-VUN which is still in it's red Pacific Blue colour scheme. I assume it will be repainted fairly soon into the much more stylish and modern Virgin Australia scheme. Here is what VH-VUN looks like at the moment:
Thai Airways International - Domestic Business Class Report on the A330-300 (TG110 BKK-CNX)
A quick report here on what you can expect in business class domestically in Thailand. This trip was on TG110 from Bangkok Suvarnabhumi to Chiang Mai on the Airbus A330-300. The aircraft operating the flight was HS-TEJ, a 16 year old model configured with the regional business class recliner seats. The flight was due to depart at 1.10pm and arrive into Chiang Mai at 2.20pm. My trip started with the taxi driver taking the long way around the back of the airport, which was fine by me as I like the view: View from the Taxi of an A330 touching down
Nok Air : Hat Yai to Bangkok on a B737-800 DD7115
Following on from my recent look at a short flight on Air Asia, let's now look at another low cost carrier in the region, Nok Air. This carrier is in its 10th year of operations and now operates a fleet of 15 Boeing 737-800's along with several turboprops. It has a very extensive network of flights throughout Thailand and although it is a low cost carrier they do offer several inclusions that a traditional LCC does not. Those are a snack and drink on board, free seat selection and a 15kg baggage allowance. HS-DBO operated this flight Today I am looking at a flight from Hat Yai to Bangkok, flight DD7115, with a scheduled departure time of 19.55 and an arrival at Bangkok's Don Muang at 21.20. The flight cost me 1199 baht (USD40), so it was quite a bargain.
Air Asia : Kuala Lumpur to Hat Yai in Economy Class
My other half is originally from Hat Yai so every now and then I find myself visiting this southern Thai city, like I did last month for Thai New Year (Songkran). On this trip I decided to fly via Kuala Lumpur and take Air Asia. I booked online for a great price and showed up at the Low Cost Carrier Terminal with my pre-printed web check-in boarding passes. I had baggage to check-in so fronted up to one of the counters and handed over my passport and my bag. Fortunately there was not much of a queue so the process was fast. My passport was checked, bag tagged and my printed boarding pass stamped to confirm my documents had been verified. Next it was upstairs to passport control and through security. Once through security there is a small selection of duty free shops and food outlets in the LCCT. There is also free wi-fi. This was to be my last time using this terminal as KLIA 2 is opening in May which will see a huge upgrade to the facilities. I sat on a spare seat and made
Emirates Business Class on the Airbus A380 : EK384 Dubai to Bangkok
In January I had the chance to fly on Emirates on one of my sectors en route from the UK back to Australia. The flight I took was from Dubai to Bangkok, operated by the Airbus A380. The flight number is EK384 and the departure time was scheduled for the ungodly hour of 3.05am! Arrival into Bangkok is at a more respectable 12.25pm. At just after midnight I woke up in my Deira hotel, took a shower and grabbed a cab for the short trip to the airport. This flight leaves from the newest terminal, T3. It took me a while to work out where to find the First Class check-in counters, I was able to use them as part of my Qantas Platinum status since the two airlines are now partners. In fact I was booked on the Qantas codeshare flight number QF8384. Outside the terminal at Dubai - clearly the home of Emirates
Qantas Destroys Frequent Flyer Program
This evening Qantas has announced a number of changes to it's frequent flyer program. Essentially they have now destroyed the program. Without going into too much details for most customers it means earning less frequent flyer points and less status credits (especially if flying with Qantas partners). The changes also see the removal of anyseat awards booked in class award booking classes (i.e status credit and points earning award flights). This change comes into effect July 1. I am extremely disappointed at these changes and as a result I am now looking to other programs to put my miles, e.g. AAdvantage and Virgin Velocity. I think Qantas has made a big mistake here, they are already struggling and in one announcement they will send thousands of loyal customers flocking to other airlines. NOT HAPPY QANTAS. For the changes go here: http://www.qantas.com.au/fflyer/dyn/program/fairer-flying
Qantas Business Class : Bangkok to Sydney on a Boeing 747-400 QF24
Over the recent summer and school holiday period Qantas scheduled a Boeing 747-400 on it's Bangkok flight instead of the usual Airbus A330-300. I happened to be travelling the route during this time and although I was booked in economy I decided to do a points upgrade to try out the business class service on the jumbo! I received an sms to my phone confirming the upgrade. the day before and was able to select my preferred seat right away on Qantas.com.
Qantas Domestic Business Class - Sydney to Alice Springs on the B737-800 QF790
Here is a quick report on QF790, the daily service between Sydney and Alice Springs. This is a Boeing 737-800 sector and on the flight I took in January I was lucky to score one of Qantas' newer models with Boeing Sky Interior. It was VH-XZF, just 8 months old at the time of this flight. Here is the business cabin featuring leather seats and audio video on demand in all seats:
British Airways Club Europe - Heathrow to Prague on the A320 BA858
Flying around Europe in business class is not exactly luxurious. The airline industry standard business class is actually just economy seats at the front of the plane with a middle seat blocked. There may be slightly more legroom and enhanced service but this really should be called 'Premium Economy' at best. Here is a look at what BA are offering at the moment on short haul European business class, which they call 'Club Europe'. This journey begins at Heathrow Terminal 3. My destination on this early January evening is Prague, one of only a handful of destinations that British Airways still serve from this terminal. The vast majority of BA services are operated out of Terminal 5. British Airways still operate a business and first class lounge here though which is used by other carriers like Qantas as well. There is also a First Class check-in zone which was deserted when I arrived. My check-in was handled very quickly and my luggage tagged for Prague with priority
Virgin Trains - First Class
Here's something a little bit different for the blog. A train report. I did a cruise report last month so why not a train!? This was one I had been wanting to do for quite some time, Virgin Trains in First Class. The route I was travelling was London to Manchester which operates every 20 minutes and takes just over 2 hours leaving from London Euston station. Arriving at Euston
Qantas First Class to London on the A380 : Part 2 QF9 Dubai to London
This is the continuation of my trip from Melbourne to London on Qantas' flagship Airbus A380, flight QF9. For part 1 go HERE . After landing in Dubai on schedule with 13.5 hours of flight behind me it was time to head to the Emirates First Class Lounge in terminal 3. This is the lounge which features direct boarding to the aircraft, but more on that later. As I was among the first off the flight there was nobody waiting at transit security so I was through and up to the lounge in no time. First up it's time for a shower since Qantas don't have them onboard like Emirates do!
Qantaslink's New Business Class Equipped Boeing 717's
Qantaslink have recently acquired some used Boeing 717's that they have reconfigured into a 98 economy and 12 business class layout. They are going to be replacing the Boeing 737-400's used on flights between Canberra and Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. In addition they will also operate all Qantas services between Hobart and both Sydney (daily) and Melbourne (4 daily). This is the first time that Qantaslink have operated a business class. I had an opportunity this week to sample the service on a short evening flight between Sydney and Canberra on VH-YQS, a 10 year old Boeing 717 which originally was delivered new to Midwest Airlines in the USA back in 2004. In 2009 it went to Mexico for service with Click Mexicana, a low cost division of Mexicana. But they went bust in 2010 and the aircraft was stored. When it came time for Qantaslink to source some new B717's they found this one and did a full refurb. So let's have a look what it's like: VH-YQS at the gate
A Hot Breakfast on a 25 minute Flight
Is the Qantas service from Canberra to Sydney the world's shortest flight that still serves a full hot breakfast? It's only a hot breakfast in business class but I am still impressed that they have maintained it even in these days of cost cutting. It is 147 miles or just 236 kilometres as the bird flies between the two airports: In economy a light refreshment is available but in business here is what I was served this month on the QF560 departing at 06.45am: It's a couple of poached eggs,spinach, tomato with feta and sausages. The juice which on longer sectors would normally be poured by the crew comes in a bottle on the tray, and there is a banana on the side. Perfectly adequate and a good start to the day. The crew on this Boeing 737-400 flight have to work VERY hard to get this meal out to up to 20 business class passengers in a flight that can be as short as 25 minutes in the air, which leaves about 10-12 minutes to have the meal served, eaten and cleare
Qantas First Class to London on the A380 : Part 1 QF9 Melbourne to Dubai
This past Christmas I gave myself a gift. It was a first class ticket to London on Qantas and flying on Christmas day too! It was to be my first First Class experience on the Qantas A380 and I was looking forward to it for months. Did it live up to my expecations? Let's see....
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Димитър (Димче) Атанасов Зографски () е комунистически функционер, деец на ВМРО (обединена).

Биография
Роден е на 27 октомври 1898 в град Велес, тогава в Османската империя, днес в Северна Македония. През 1919 година се включва в БКМС, а от следващата година става член на ЮКП. От 1923 година е секретар на Местния комитет на ЮКП за Щип. Между 1926 и 1927 е член на Покрайненския комитет на ЮКП за Македония. В периода 1927-1932 година е арестуван поради комунистическата си дейност. По-късно е член на Областния комитет на ВМРО обединена.

В началото на 1942 година участва в основаването на Велешкото просветно благотворително братство в Скопие, създадено на 25 януари. Целта на Братството е да се оказва взаимна материална подкрепа на велешани, живеещи в Скопие, и организирана подкрепа на българските власти при необходимост.

През 1944 година е интерниран в Горна Джумая, а след като е освободен, става делегат на Второто заседание на АСНОМ и на нелегалния градски народоосвободителен комитет в Скопие. През 1944 година е един от критиците на Манифеста на АСНОМ, който вкарва новосформираната Народна република Македония в Югославия. В периода 1945-1947 година е председател на Градския народен комитет в Скопие. По-късно е министър на горите, на народното здраве и социалната политика и народен представител.

Вижте също
 Тодор Зографски

Бележки

Министри на Социалистическа република Македония
Дейци на ВМРО (обединена)
Делегати на Второто заседание на АСНОМ
Кметове на Скопие
Родени във Велес
Югославски комунисти
Български комунисти до 1944 година
Починали в Скопие
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World Suicide Prevention Day: Maine in Top Ten States at Risk for Suicide
It is World Suicide Prevention Day, and training sessions like this one in Brunswick held by NAMI Maine help people identify the warning signs of suicide and take action. Courtesy: NAMI Maine
AUGUSTA, Maine - Reaching out and saving lives. That's the theme of World Suicide Prevention Day today, and advocates say Mainers need to pay particular attention.
Jenna Menhert, MSW, executive director of NAMI-Maine, says the state ranks number nine in the nation for suicide. She says feelings of hopelessness often are the trigger when Mainers decide to take their own life.
"We have the startling statistic that a Mainer dies by suicide every 1.5 days, or every day-and-a-half," she says. "That actually means that in Maine, you are eight times more like to die from suicide than homicide."
Menhert advises if you encounter a friend, co-worker or family member who seems to be down, try to get them talking. If they do mention thoughts of suicide, do not leave them alone until you get help. The Maine Crisis Prevention Hotline number is 1-888-568-1112.
Menhert says older men are at the highest risk of suicide in both Maine and the nation, and next highest-risk group are adolescents. She says the third group at risk of suicide is unusual in the state.
"We lose are lot more men ages 35 to 55 to suicide than other states. So, that's a uniquely high-risk group in the state of Maine," she says.
NAMI-Maine offers free gatekeeper training on its website that can help you spot the signs of suicide and take appropriate action.
Mike Clifford, Public News Service - ME


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