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Arrival (2016)
Posted on November 11, 2016 December 6, 2016 by Martin: Through the Silver Screen
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Arrival – Film Review
Cast: Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker
Synopsis: When 12 alien ships mysteriously appear in places around the world, a team of experts are gathered to assess the extra terrestrial visitors, and to determine: just why are they here?
Review: Alien invasion, a classic trope of the science fiction genre, One that so often delivers films where you sit back and just watch a load of mayhem and destruction with cities getting blown to smithereeens and the aliens must be stopped at all costs. While these can be fun and very enjoyable, science fiction is a genre that has the potential to go really deep and provide the audience with a thought provoking piece of story telling that gets the brain working and leaves its audience in awe and spectacle, and this latest film from director Denis Villeneuve ticks that box, and then some.
Adapted from the short story Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang, with a screenplay by Eric Heisserer, we focus on Dr Louise Banks (Adams) a brilliant linguistics professor who is called in by the US military to help deal with the mysterious alien invaders and to understand just who are they, what do they want, and above all are they a threat to humanity? Aiding her in her quest is physicist Ian Donnelly (Renner) and together these intelligent academics must decipher what these extra terrestrial beings are up to. Heisserer's screenplay is excellent, exploring some really interesting themes that we have seen before in science fiction. Yet these are told in such a brilliant and engaging way that it keeps your eyes firmly transfixed on the screen. The mystery is maintained throughout the film's running time as for a while, the craft of the visitors is not revealed, and it brilliantly keeps the viewer engaged. It is smart and very thought provoking story-telling that keeps you hooked from the very first shot, all the way to the last shot.
The centrepiece of this story is of course Adams's Dr Banks, a wounded soul who has suffered some terrible tragedies in her lifetime, and yet, she remains strong willed, determined to do all she can to understand what the alien visitors are after, and not to bow to the will of her military superiors, most notably Forest Whitaker's Colonel Weber. Adams has had a very distinguished career, earning five Oscar nods, and another one could very well be coming her way next year. She carries the film on her shoulders, and reinforces her reputation as a very stellar actress. Renner also gives a very grounded and superb performance, who does his best to sprinkle a bit of humour here and there into the story, but the limelight belongs to Adams and she absolutely bosses it.
The directing from Villeneuve is masterful in its execution, aided by flawless cinematography from Bradford Young. The wide shots of the alien craft as they appear in the sky are truly something to behold. The flawless cinematography is aided by outstanding visuals and magnificent visual effects. The aliens themselves feel so real and authentic, you don't see it as a computer generated image. Similarly with the alien crafts, though they do resemble pieces of a Terry's Chocolate Orange, are beautifully designed and like their inhabitants feel very real and authentic. Re-teaming with Villeneuve after Sicario, Jóhann Jóhannsson's score is mesmerising to the ears, as Villeneuve's visual brilliance is appealing to the eyes.
Language and science are two subjects that rarely go hand in hand, but here they most certainly do and the results are a joy to behold. The mystery will hook you in and will not let go. With the Blade Runner sequel being Villeneuve's next film, fans of Ridley Scott's classic can rest assured knowing that project is in very safe and capable hands.
A beautifully refreshing take on what is a very common sci-fi trope, with thought provoking themes and ideas, anchored by a powerful performance from Adams.
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garethrhodes says:
We saw exactly the same film here, my friend.
Martin: Through the Silver Screen says:
that we did dude!! So excited to see what Denis does with the Blade Runner sequel this year!
If nothing else, we know we'll get something visually sumptuous. Looking forward to more Denis.
He will win an Oscar one day, I'm sure of that!
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Just one more week until we are back in America! Never before have I been so excited about the luxury of having running water all day long. Of course, I haven't before been in a place where the water is off about 18 out of 24 hours. Imagine being able to flush the toilet and wash your hands any time! Juliana can paint and play in the dirt and do messy activities because we can actually clean her up afterward. Kevin can take a shower when he gets back from playing sports all hot and sweaty. We won't have to plan ahead to get the laundry and dishes done in the short "water windows." If our child should throw up in the middle of the night, we can actually clean her up (unlike last week when we had no water).
After a couple of months of this, we are getting better at filling up basins and jugs so we can wash hands and flush toilets during the day, but if we forget it's a real pain. Usually we have water from 7-8am, 12-1pm, 6-7pm, and about 9-11pm. We have finally been remembering to fill up Juliana's tub with water before dinnertime so we can give her a bath before bed. After playing outside every afternoon in the heat and dirt, she definitely needs it! Laundry is trickier. I have to remember to put it in as soon as the water comes on so it can finish before the water turns off again. Our washer may be small but it takes forever to fill up! Fortunately, it's so dry here that we could hang up laundry at 9pm and it would probably be dry by bedtime.
We live in on the edge of the desert, so if our lack of water was due to actual water shortage, I wouldn't mind it so much. Saving water is a good thing, and nothing helps water conservation like not having any water to waste! However, our water is not off because of water conservation. It is only consistently off during the springtime, and it's because they are busy flooding the grass. Not watering – flooding.
The typical "watering" method seems to be: Place an extra-large hose on one spot in the ground. Eight hours later, move hose to a new location. It makes no sense to me. And yes, sometimes when I see all that nice water making a mess out of the ground, puddling on the sidewalk, and forming lovely mud playgrounds for children, I'm a little bitter that we can't wash our hands.
Sometimes I imagine what my life would be like in an alternate reality. I don't feel discontent with this life; I just wonder what life could be like in another place and another situation. I think I would be a hippie. Some sort of Laura Ingles Wilder meets Madeliene L'Engle's Austin family.
We live in a big, old farmhouse in not quite the middle of no-where Kentucky, but close enough that there are fields of cows (not ours) and crops (not tobacco) all around. The house is weathered and comfortable. All of the windows are open, since it's springtime, and there is a fabulous breeze. The house is surrounded by a big porch overlooking rustling trees and open pastures.
We have about five kids, all of whom were born at home. It doesn't seem like too many because they can roam around all over and we never have to travel by airplane. I do very wholesome things like baking bread, sewing clothes, and canning. We have a giant garden full of vegetables and flowers that are actually growing. Of course the super helpful children take part in gardening and cooking and all those other wholesome tasks. We have a big old tractor but no livestock. Maybe a few chickens. Far away from the house and not very smelly. A nice dog and a couple of cats that wander in and out but stay remarkably clean.
I get up at sunrise to enjoy coffee on the porch while it's still quiet, unaccountably a morning person. I cook all kinds of healthy, from-scratch meals, and we don't eat any processed food except boxed mac and cheese because it's irreplaceable. We all run around barefoot, and we are never fashionable. I probably home-school. We read books under big trees and catch fireflies after dark. We are so relaxed that we may not even have clocks in our home...we just go by the sun and the seasons. It's all very earthy.
In real life I live in a sixth floor apartment in a Chinese city. There are plenty of (live) chickens at the market waiting to be eaten, but that's about all in the way of livestock. I can't really imagine having five kids, and while I find home-birth intriguing, I was quite satisfied with my hospital/midwife birth. I don't really like to cook that much, Juliana has yet to turn me into a morning person, and I always like to know what time it is.
But have started making bread again, a remarkably simple recipe from my sister Becky that turns out well even in my small China oven. We have a pet cat, puppy, bunny, kiwi bird, and several giraffes – they just all happen to be stuffed. I will likely home-school, since we'll be living in China, and I'll probably mostly enjoy it. I have one house plant which I have kept alive for over a month. And the not-fashionable part seems to be working out quite well. So I'll just take what I've got and enjoy the rest in my imagination.
This recipe makes 2 loaves so you can eat one and freeze one, but it can easily be halved if desired.
In a large bowl, dissolve the sugar in warm water, and then stir in yeast. Allow to proof until yeast resembles a creamy foam. Mix salt and oil into the yeast mixture. Mix in flour one cup at a time. Knead dough on a lightly floured surface until smooth. Place in a well oiled bowl and turn dough to coat. Cover with a damp cloth. Allow to rise until doubled in bulk, about one hour.
Punch dough down. Knead for a few minutes and divide in half. Shape into loaves and place into two well oiled 9"x5" loaf pans. Allow to rise for 30 minutes, or until dough has risen 1" above pans.
Bake at 350˚F for 30 minutes.
* Whole Wheat: Substitute up to 2 cups of whole wheat flour. Add 1 tbsp honey with salt and oil.
*Add a bit of wheat germ (I never actually measure).
"Don't run into the street" seems to be one of those basic childhood rules. It's an unquestionably important issues to have squared away, but it is also one that I find rather perplexing. It seems very sensible to tell Juliana not to run into the street; I just have to figure out first what "street" means.
Obviously I don't let Juliana run around near the big road outside our campus that is filled with cars, buses, taxis, bicycles, and motorbikes. I usually let Juliana walk on the sidewalk, but there are probably more people walking on the road than on the sidewalk. The sidewalk, which is partly for walking but is also where you get your bike repaired; get your shoes repaired; hang out and drink yogurt; buy newspapers, snacks, milk, fruit, and honey. It is the parking lot for small shops and an alternate bicycle route.
What about the little roadway going through campus? At some parts of the day it is mainly a walkway for students going to and from their dorms, grandparents walking with their young children, plus a few bicycles and motorbikes. During these times I let Juliana walk on the road because pedestrians outnumber drivers and a lot of other toddlers on the road as well. In the evening, the road is busy with bicycles, motorbikes, and cars – as well as lots of pedestrians. Even though there are lots of children walking home from school and preschoolers skipping beside their parents, I don't let Juliana walk on the road at this time because it's so busy. What percentage of vehicle traffic vs. pedestrians turns a walkway into a road?
What about the area outside our apartment where little children often gather to play? Toddlers run about and ride around on their little toy cars. Babies hang out with their grandmas. School children kick around balls. It's also directly in front of the bike-shed, so bikes and motorbikes often come through. It is also a parking lot for the occasional delivery truck or car stopping by the small store next door.
Perhaps Juliana will be confused that sometimes she is allowed to walk on the road and other times not. The again, she's grown up in China, so she might already have a much better grasp on the flexibility of life here. The lines between street, sidewalk, parking lot, store, and play area all blend together, and I'm sure it doesn't bother her in the least.


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What are the different parts of a flower?
Flowers allow certain plants called angiosperms to reproduce, so it is not surprising that botanists refer to different parts of a flower in terms of male and female reproductive organs.
Female reproductive system: the carpel or pistil is located in the center of the flower and contains the female organs. There may be one or more pistils. This part of a flower looks like a bowling alley with a rounded lower base which is the ovary. Inside the ovary are reproductive cells or an egg. Coming from the ovary, the pistil is sharpened into a neck called a style, and the button at the top of the neck is the stigma. This part of a flower is sticky. When pollen grains adhere to the stigma by fertilization or pollination by bees, wind, or any other means, the pollen tubes develop inside the stylus or neck. and descend to bury in the ovary or base. Here, the sperm fertilizes an egg or reproductive egg (the single egg). Eventually, the egg becomes a seed.
Some plants do not depend on chance for fertilization, as they also contain the different parts of a flower that form the male reproductive organs. These organs produce pollen.
Male reproductive tract: The stamen is the part of a flower that looks like a thin hair with a follicle at the top. Typically, several stamens surround the pistil (s). The hair is called filament and the follicle is the anther where pollen is produced. The filament and the anther together form the stamen.
Flowers that have male and female reproductive organs are called perfect flowers, while those that have only one or the other are imperfect flowers.
In addition to the pistil (female organs) and stamens (male organs), the outermost whorl is made up of petals, while the small, delicate leaves at the base of the petals are the sepals. The sepals are collectively called calyx. Under the calyx is the stem or peduncle.
Flowers that have pistil, stamens, petals and sepals are called full flowers. Flowers that do not have one or more of these parts are called incomplete flowers.
Flowers that depend on pollinators such as hummingbirds and bees often produce nectar to attract them and bright colors to attract attention. Birds and bees have color vision, and some flowers even have nectar guides, patterns that appear clearly in the ultraviolet range, visible to bees but not to humans. When hummingbirds enter the flower to obtain nectar, or when bees explore the flower, pollen grains attach to the animals to be transferred to other flowers, and pollen from other flowers is deposited. . Therefore, pollination occurs.
In addition to the standard flower described above, there are other types of flowers, such as compound flowers. The sunflower and the daisy are two common examples. Compound flowers are so called because they are actually a composition of dozens of small flowers – of two types – that are arranged to look like a single flower! The center of a sunflower or daisy is made up of dozens of miniature flowers piled next to each other called disc flowers, while each petal of the sunflower or daisy is a jet flower. Together, the jet and disc flowers form many common flowers. Alternatively, dandelions have the head composed only of jet flowers, while thistles have the head composed only of disc flowers.
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Ministry of Human Resource Development
The Vice President of India Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu addresses the 3rd annual convocation of Jawaharlal Nehru University today
430 students conferred with the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
The Vice President, Shri M Venkaiah Naidu graced and addressed the 3rd Annual Convocation of the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi today. Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' was the Guest of Honour. Chancellor of JNU and Current Member of the NITI Aayog, Dr V. K. Saraswat, Vice-Chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University Professor M. Jagadesh Kumar and senior officials of the ministry were also present on this occasion. 430 students were conferred with the degrees of Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.).
The Vice President has called for revamping the entire education system from pedagogy to research to make India a leading centre of knowledge and innovation. Delivering the 3rd Annual Convocation of the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, Shri Naidu pointed out that India was once known as Vishwaguru and said that the time has come for India to once again emerge as a global hub of learning.
Urging the universities and institutions of higher learning to completely reorient their methods of teaching, he wanted JNU and other universities in India to figure among the top-ranking global institutions. The Vice President observed that the Indian civilization always laid emphasis on a holistic integrated vision of education. Exhorting universities like JNU to build on our strengths and raise the bar, he said all-round excellence and the ability to lead the global agendas must be our aim.
Urging the institutions of higher learning to learn from the best institutions in the world and adapt the best practices, he said: "We have, as a civilization, been one of the most receptive societies that has welcomed good ideas from across the world".
Pointing out that India was on a unique growth trajectory, he said the students have "limitless opportunities" to contribute towards this endeavor.
Click the link for the full speech of Vice President of India
Speaking on the occasion Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal "Nishank" applauded the outstanding performance of the students and efforts of all involved in taking this institution to high levels of eminence. He added that universities like JNU were conceived and promoted to meet the educational aspirations of India's youth. And we have the opportunity to be proud that the University is not only successful in its objective but also playing a leading role in paving the intellectual path of India.
The Minister hoped that the effort JNU will be dynamic towards the development and operation of useful and efficient courses. And taking full advantage of the new policies of the present government, we will use modern technology, so that more and more youth will get the benefit of higher education. He congratulated all the teachers, students and officials for the convocation ceremony.
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Health psychology is concerned with the intersection of physical health with psychological and behavioral processes. Medicine and psychology have always had a symbiotic relationship, and health psychology highlights the impact of psychological aspects on physical conditions. Health care providers have noted that understanding mind/body connections empowers the patient to make better choices for their own well-being. Health psychologists advocate for patient engagement with their own treatment plan. As such, health psychologists can play various roles.
Community health is public health at the grassroots level. A community-focused health psychologist studies community issues and how they affect residents of the area. Designing and implementing community-level interventions to prevent diseases or counteract existing ones will be part of your functions as a community health psychologist. This job is one of great importance in disease prevention and intervention to minimize the spread of communicable diseases, which is typically studied at the community level. You may find that collaborating with federal, international and non-profit organizations is routine for a community health advocate.
Public health experts address health issues on the population level. These psychologists study the pyschosocial aspects of disease prevention and management and formulate interventions when necessary. Some interventions may focus on demographic groups such as at-risk youth, pregnant women or children whose ages fall into a pre-defined range. As a public health psychologist, you will have many opportunities to work with epidemiologists, geneticists, nutritionists and other health care professionals.
Psychological health impacts the human physical condition. As a wellness expert, you will guide patients toward making life-sustaining choices. You are an advocate for healthy living, but your tasks will focus on individuals and small groups. As a wellness expert, your goal is to promote healthy well-being by initiating behavioral changes in patients that would ultimately lead to better health. Health psychologists play a crucial role in disease prevention by counseling patients on basic matters such as hand washing and other hygienic practices, diet and nutrition information and pregnancy support. Prescreening for diseases, promoting immunizations and getting adequate nutrition are just some of the tasks of a wellness expert. Health psychologists address the quality-of-life issues of terminally-ill patients, adjustment issues for those affected by post-traumatic stress as well as collaborate with other professionals on suicide prevention programs.
Health policies are data-driven, making it critical to generate accurate measures of population changes, occurrence of diseases and the impact of interventions. If you have a good grasp of biostatistics with a background in health psychology, research is your niche. Health psychologists are investigators, studying the effects of positive mental attitude in disease prevention or mitigation. Likewise, it is important to observe the flip side: how well-being or ill health influences a patient's psycho-social condition.
Health psychologists make good teachers because many of the tasks have to do with interacting with patients and persuading them to think and behave in a certain way. You may also be asked to train your peers in matters such as encouraging smoking cessation, healthy weight loss programs and healthy eating. Health psychologists train other health professionals to communicate effectively especially under stresful conditions. Breaking bad news to families requires special communication skills that should be empathetic, supportive and informative at all times.
Division 38 of the American Psychological Association is focused solely on health psychology, emphasizing the importance of investigating the effects of psychological and behavioral issues on patients' health and well-being. As a health psychologist, you will have many opportunities to advocate for health issues. Working directly with patients, you can empower them to take charge of their own health starting with choosing to be healthier.


In April, Gebr. Heinemann revealed solid growth of +6.6% for its 2017 financial year as the business stepped over the €4bn line (for its group of controlled companies). Consolidated sales were less eye-catching, reaching €3bn from €2.9bn in 2016, largely due to the company's reduced stake in its Frankfurt business (now a joint venture with Fraport).
Nevertheless, global tender wins – chief among them being the joint venture with James Richardson at Israel's Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport (started in January) – give the Hamburg-based operator good opportunities going forward (see fact file below).
So good in fact, that the family-owned international duty free and travel retail business is predicting a double-digit sales rise for the 2018 financial year.
The company has successfully opened up in the fast-expanding Asia Pacific region – and is picking up the pace in the Americas market through the cruise business. This laudable global push has changed its regional mix, but not to a major extent.
Asia Pacific now has an 11% share of revenue – almost double its 6% share in 2015 – under the direction of Max Heinemann. He will return to Hamburg this summer to take up a position on the Executive Board and ensure a fifth generation of the family stays at the helm. Despite the Asia Pacific gains, Heinemann remains very much a European business driving 84% of revenue (85% in 2016).
Developments in Europe – notably Turkish operations and the vast Istanbul New Airport – are set to make the company even more Europe-reliant. Globalisation strategies sound good in theory, but in practice the unpredictability of the DF&TR business – especially the tender process – can make it difficult to actively reshape regional portfolios, for any retailer.
Heinemann must also consider where its wholesale/distribution business – the plank on which it was built in 1879 – is heading. Last year group-wide distribution turnover slipped by -5.8% to €854m as retail sales soared +10.6% to €3.2bn.
Retail now has a 78% share of turnover (75% in 2016), and distribution 21% (24% in 2016). In previous years the shares were even closer. In 2017, the distribution division itself saw growth of +7.5% because it integrates pure wholesale activities as well as retail sales.
Heinemann's wholesale/distribution business is integral to its success. It ensures the company deals across a very wide range of customers, allowing it to pick up on certain trends quickly. Supply operations also offer valuable insights to locations where the company may bid for concessions in the future.
4415 / Heinemann: EUROPA, DEUTSCHLAND, HAMBURG, (EUROPE, GERMANY), 17.10.2005: Gewerbegebiet Allermoehe, Rungedamm, Wilhelm Iwan Ring, Heinemann.
Like its larger rivals, Dufry or Lagardère Travel Retail, chasing tenders is the name of the game in DF&TR, so retail will remain the main driver. And if the entire business is growing, then a reduced share from distribution is not necessarily critical. However, given its historical roots and value to the business as a whole, extra focus here is important.
One reason, perhaps, for Heinemann raising the profile of its distribution division with a new unifying brand: 'Supplying Success'. It is essentially a performance promise to customers – and internally. The move positions Heinemann very clearly against international competition, and with a collaborative thrust. It's a smart move at the right time.


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PRAHLAD SINGH AND 6 OTHERS Vs. STATE OF U P AND 2 OTHERS
Decided on September 26,2016
Prahlad Singh And 6 Others Appellant
State Of U P And 2 Others Respondents
PUNE MUNICIPAL CORPORATION VS. HARAKCHAND MISIRIMAL SOLANKI [REFERRED]
- (1.)In spite of a stop order, no counter affidavit has been filed. As oral request was made by learned Standing Counsel to grant further time to file the counter affidavit. Such request is rejected since there was a stop order by an earlier order of the Court dated 26.9.2016 granting the respondents three week's and no more time to file a counter affidavit.
(2.)The petitioners' father Kashmira Singh was the original tenure holder of the land in question being Khasra No. 311-M measuring 0.8350 hectares in village Lohari Khurd, Pargana Charthawal, Tehsil Sadar, District Muzaffarnagar. The name of Kashmira Singh was recorded in the revenue record. Upon his death, petitioners' name was recorded in the Khatauni of 1420 Fasli to 1425 Fasli. The petitioners' land was acquired sometimes in the year 1974-75. Pursuant to Notification issued under Sections 4 and 6 of the Land Acquisition Act, objections were filed by the petitioners which was rejected. For reasons best known to the respondents the award insofar as the petitioners are concerned, was not made under Section 11 of the Land Acquisition Act. The award of the co-sharers was however made. The petitioners were forcibly dispossessed from the land in the year 2014. Being aggrieved by this forceful dispossession, the petitioners filed Civil Misc. Writ Petition No. 52791 of 2014 which was disposed of by an order dated 07.10.2014 directing the petitioners to make a representation before the Collector, Muzaffarnagar who would decide the same by a reasoned and speaking order. The petitioners made a representation which was disposed of by an order dated 18.2.2016. The Collector, in its order, admitted that the land of the petitioners has been acquired and that neither the award has been made nor compensation has been paid. It has also been indicated that compensation was kept in the revenue deposit. The Collector has further directed the Special Land Acquisition Officer, Muzaffarnagar to determine the compensation by taking the market value of the land as existed in the year 1981 which was the date when the respondents deposited the amount in respect of other land holders in the revenue deposit.
(3.)The petitioners being aggrieved by the said order has filed the present writ petition.
Having heard the learned counsel for the parties, we find that the Land Acquisition Act has been repealed with effect from 01.01.2014 in view of Section 114 of the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 (hereinafter referred to as the Act of 2013). With effect from 01.01.2014, the new Act of 2013 has come in force. Section 24(1)(a) of the Act provides that where no award under Section 11 of the Land Acquisition Act has been made, then compensation has to be determined under the Act of 2013. Section 26 of the Act 2013 provides the criteria for determining the market value of the land by the Collector. Proviso to Section 26 of the Act states that the date for determination of market value shall be the date on which the notification has been issued under Section 11 of the Act of 2013.
In the instant case, the notification was issued under the Act of 1894 which has now been repealed. The question that arises for consideration as to what would the appropriate date for determination of the market value of the land in question. As per impugned order, the Collector has directed the Special Land Acquisition Officer to determine the market value of the land on the date when the compensation was deposited in the revenue deposit. Prima facie this direction appears to be arbitrary. We find that under Section 113 of the Act, the Central Government has the power to make such provision or give such direction in case any difficulty arises for implementation of the Act.


We love our neighbors in Mar Vista, and we're happy to help them out with all of their cannabis needs. This residential and commercial neighborhood is only a few miles away, and it's home to some of our favorite customers. If you haven't been in to visit yet, make sure to stop by and say hello!
Did you know we were named Marijuana Dispensary of the Year in the Mar Vista area?
Bordered by West Los Angeles, Culver City, Marina del Rey, and Santa Monica this community is home to 37,447 people. It has a high population density compared to the Los Angeles average, with 11,754 people per square mile. Mar Vista has a high percentage of veterans from World War II and the Korean War. The neighborhood has great diversity compared to neighboring areas, offering a unique blend of cultures.
Mar Vista is one of the hidden Westside gems in Los Angeles, located in a "pocket neighborhood" between other larger areas. It is a community of large yards, tree-lined streets, and friendly neighbors. It's a true community, and locals carry a strong sense of neighborhood pride. Most of them stay in the area for the long haul. The Sunday Mar Vista Farmers Market is one of the best in all of Los Angeles and brings people from all over the city. The Mar Vista Recreation Center and Park is complete with a swimming pool, baseball diamond, roller hockey rink, volleyball courts, basketball courts - you name it, it's there. And if none of that is enough, Mar Vista is also less than three miles to the beach.
Most people who live in Mar Vista choose to stay there. The community is tight-knit and proud, and even sport heir own "MV" and "90066" baseball hats.
The Mar Vista Farmers Market is one of the best in all of Los Angeles. It has dog sitters, bike valet, art, live music, DJs, and a variety of festivals.
Mar Vista has a great combo of contemporary retail spaces and old mom and pop shops that keep the old charm and bring on the new.
Did you know that Mar Vista was once considered the "Lima Bean Belt of the Nation"?
In 1868, Henry Lewis planted the first lima beans in the United States, and by the 1930's, lima beans thrived in the moist fields of Mar Vista. Mar Vistans voted to become a part of Los Angeles rather than incorporate as a city back in 1926. It remained a small farming community until developed Paul Trousdale purchased the land in 1947. It was bought with the intention to build a charming community for returning veterans, prioritizing gardens, outdoor spaces, and local nurseries. Famous mid-century modernist architect Gregory Ain designed the homes of a Mar Vista Housing Tract. This neighborhood remains one of the most appealing areas of Mar Vista, despite the fact that there are still no street lights there.
Mar Vista has several interesting facts and trivia. In the 1860's, Union Army troops used Mar Vista Hill to watch out for an anticipated Confederate attack coming from Catalina Island. Grand View Boulevard was the first gated community in Los Angeles County. Busby Drug Store was the first commercial building in Mar Vista. During World War II, an Army anti-aircraft installation sat atop Mar Vista Hill at the end of Rose Avenue. It was installed to provide protection from Japanese bombers.


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Agricultural Storage Steel Building
"I've never had anyone look at it and not like it!"
A Steel Building Solution to the Agricultural "Space Debate"
"Do I need more space?"
It might be a query for your inner monologue, or an innocent question voiced aloud to your husband or wife, but if the answer is 'yes,' you've taken the first step towards a steel building project.
Like many builders, Jim F. of Houston, TX began his search for a metal building after confirmation of his own "space debate" struggle. With all sorts of agricultural equipment, and no place to put it, his hunt for a durable, versatile and cost-effective storage solution brought him to Armstrong Steel.
"I was planning on building a weld-up from scratch barn, but my contractor had put up [an Armstrong Steel building] for his sister, and I looked at it, and I was impressed with the strength," said Jim F.
After seeing the quality and craftsmanship of a bolt-together Armstrong building firsthand, Jim abandoned his original plan of a weld-up structure and settled on a 50 x 60 steel building.
"I chose Armstrong over bids from two very reputable local firms for several reasons and was not disappointed. Armstrong's bid was very competitive with the other bids, but I was most impressed with the overall quality of the materials to be provided, the attention to detail by Armstrong engineers, and the design help provided."
Armstrong Steel buildings are engineered in-house, not overseas, by a dedicated team with over 150 years combined detailing experience. Even our executives jump into projects from time to time, to ensure every customer gets exactly what they need.
"I remember working very closely with Jim throughout the entirety of his project," said Ethan Chumley, Founder and CEO of Armstrong Steel. "Jim is one of my favorite types of clients – extremely hands on. When he had questions about the precise details of his building, I was happy to jump on the phone with him and offer assistance. Customer service is at the heart of everything we do because without our customers, all of our achievement would not be possible."
Armstrong Steel has its own manufacturing facility, and each project is streamlined and benefits from a quality-controlled environment. In a matter of months, Jim had his building on site.
"We've completed construction of the equipment barn ordered from Armstrong. The Armstrong staff and engineers were very helpful throughout the entire process of the design and delivery of the building. The building was delivered on schedule, the components and parts were all present, all the predrilled bolt holes were in the correct place, and everything fit per detailed plans provided by Armstrong," said Jim.
Steel buildings often go up in less than half the time of conventional construction. A crew of four men erected Jim's 3,000 square foot building (less rollup doors) in six days.
"I am very happy with my equipment barn. People who see the barn comment on the quality and appearance, and ask me, 'who built your barn?' I would not hesitate to work with Armstrong Steel on another building, and I am comfortable recommending Armstrong Steel to others for their metal building needs," exclaimed Jim.
"We ask our customers to trust Armstrong Steel quality every day," said Ethan Chumley, Founder and CEO of Armstrong Steel. "That fact isn't lost on me. Builders all over the country, like Jim, make the choice to begin a project with us every day, and it's our job to deliver a building they can be proud of and live in for generations."
"I'm very happy," laughed Jim. "I've never had anyone look at it and not like it!"
First time builders, small business owners, church leaders and their families agree: Armstrong Steel delivers an outstanding building and customer experience.
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The Port au Bras Formation is a formation cropping out in Newfoundland.

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Geology of Newfoundland and Labrador
Volcanism of Newfoundland and Labrador

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Music makes us think, makes us dance, makes us feel. No matter the tempo, music moves us. Songs of Silence is an international comics project put together by artists from Europe, Africa, and Asia, inspired by the power of music. Each story (written by Dutch author, Noël Ummels) is inspired by a popular song from our past. They explore such universal concerns as injustice, abuse, intolerance, deception, and exploitation, but they also speak of love and inspiration. Some stories may be sad or distressing, ironic or completely in earnest.


Anna McCarthy spent her childhood in the hills of Tennessee. Raised in a family with much creative talent, her love for the arts grew and eventually developed into a love for writing. After moving to the Midwest, she embraced her passion and is now a published author and speaker. Anna currently lives in Kansas and she and her husband share the joy of raising three daughters.


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Q: How $\mathbb{P} (A | B \cup B^c)$ is $\mathbb{P} (A | B) \cdot P(B) + \mathbb{P} (A | B^c) \cdot \mathbb{P} (B^c)$? P(A) = $P(A|\Omega)$
        = $ P(A|B \cup B^c)$
But how to reach  P(A | B) * P(B) + P(A | B$^c$) * P(B$^c$) from P(A | B U B$^c$) ?

A: Quickly, $\mathsf P(A\mid B\cup B^\complement)=\mathsf P(A)$ because $B\cup B^\complement$ is the entire outcome set.
Slowly,
$$\begin{align}\mathsf P(A\mid B\cup B^\complement)&=\dfrac{\mathsf P(A\cap( B\cup B^\complement))}{\mathsf P(B\cup B^\complement)}\\&=\dfrac{\mathsf P(A\cap B)+\mathsf P(A\cap B^\complement)}{1}\\&=\mathsf P(A\mid B)~\mathsf P(B)+\mathsf P(A\mid B^\complement)~\mathsf P(B^\complement)\end{align}$$

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Choice of new BMW CEO solidifies automaker's electric plans
Eric C. Evarts July 19, 2019 Comment Now!
BMW is doubling down on its strategy of building electric versions of its mainstream cars, rather than a separate line of EVs.
That strategy was pushed by Oliver Zipse, who will take over as CEO from Harald Krueger on August 16, and it gives the company more flexibility to produce electric cars—on the same assembly lines as internal-combustion and plug-in hybrid versions.
Incoming BMW CEO Oliver Zipse
The new approach has a template: BMW has built its battery production facility as part of a flexible space inside its main car factory in Dingolfing, in case demand for electric cars doesn't materialize. That also saves billions of dollars in engineering as the company faces the need to develop new self-driving cars (some in partnership with Daimler) alongside new electric powertrains and the surrounding support infrastructure.
According to its latest plans, BMW expects to build 25 new plug-in models, including 13 all-electric cars by 2023, the first of which will be the all-new 2020 Mini Cooper SE.
2018 BMW i3s
The approach is quite a course change from BMW's former electric-vehicle trajectory. With the i3 and i8, introduced in 2014 and 2015, respectively, BMW became an early leader in electric cars. It made grand plans for some of the ancillary points, laying plans to develop a support network of car-sharing programs, charging infrastructure, and apps to support them. But the weight-saving carbon-fiber bodies for these vehicles are expensive to build, and sales of the i3 have continued to lag early expectations.
Although little of the surrounding infrastructure came to be, critics have charged that the company squandered that early lead when it ceased developing new dedicated EVs after those models, and focused instead on developing slow-selling, short-range plug-in versions of its existing sedans and SUVs.
Perhaps with the flexibility to produce electric versions of nearly its entire lineup, the brand might regain some of that lost momentum.
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What do Edmund Halley, Adam Smith, Cecil Rhodes, T S Eliot, C S Lewis, Indira Gandhi, Margaret Thatcher, Stephen Hawking, Andrew Lloyd-Webber, Bill Clinton and Tony Blair have in common? They all attended the University of Oxford at some point in the past few centuries.
The University of Oxford is located in a city that bears the same name. This medium-sized city lies about 57 miles north-west of London, England. Oxford, the oldest university in the English-speaking world, is an independent and self-governing institution composed of the central University and 39 colleges. The colleges select and admit undergraduate students, select graduate students after being admitted by the university, provide meals and accommodations, provide libraries and social facilities, and are responsible for tutorial teaching and students' welfare. Thirty colleges and seven permanent private halls admit undergraduates and all colleges except St. Hilda's – which is women only - accept men and women. Eight colleges admit only graduate students.
Oxford attracts students and scholars from all over the world and maintains supporting scholarships specially dedicated for international students: the Clarendon Fund Scholarships and the Rhodes Scholarships. Over 130 nationalities are represented among the student body: 17,664 students in residence. Over one quarter of these students are from overseas. The majority of international students come from countries such as USA, Germany, China, Canada, Australia, Greece, India and France.
With over 45 academic courses, the most popular "majors" at Oxford are English; Chemistry; Jurisprudence; Mathematics; Modern History; Medical Sciences; Modern Languages; Philosophy, Politics and Economics; and Physics.
SAT I and SAT II scores (700 for all sections) – ACT scores of at least 32/36 (for US applicants) can substitute SAT I scores.
At the undergraduate level, English language tests such as the TOEFL exam are not required. However, colleges strongly encourage international students whose native language is not English to submit TOEFL or IELTS scores. Generally speaking, colleges are looking for a minimum of 650 (paper-based) or 275 (computer-based) in the TOEFL test, or 7.5 in the IELTS in listening, reading, speaking and writing.
Other admission requirements specified by the academic program.
Annual tuition fees for undergraduate students include university and college fees. University fees vary according to the academic course elected and range between £8,800 and £11,800. Non-EU students are also assessed a £5,700 college fee.
Tuition fees for graduate students include approximately £10,775 for most humanities, mathematics and social science programmes; £22,570 for clinical medicine programmes; and £28,000 for MBA programmes. College fees vary from college to college, but should not exceed £4,500.
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Brussels, 31 August 2021
EaP CSF Steering Committee statement on the Georgian-Belarusian security cooperation agreement
The EaP CSF Steering Committee is deeply concerned by the "Agreement on Cooperation between the State Security Committee of the Republic of Belarus and the State Security Service", signed in 2016, which entered into force on 1 August 2021.
By enforcing the agreement, the Georgian authorities would effectively assist the unlawful regime of Aliaksander Lukashenka in persecuting its opponents on trumped-up charges of terrorism, disclosing state secrets or attempting to overthrow the constitutional order based on manipulation of Belarusian domestic law by the regime. Many Belarusians have been seeking shelter in Georgia – a partner country that is considered to be adhering to its Eastern Partnership and AA/DCFTA obligations and seeking EU membership.
The fraudulent presidential election in August 2020 sparked a wave of peaceful protests across Belarus to which the regime of Aliaksander Lukashenka responded with unprecedented repression, including political persecution, arbitrary detentions, abductions, physical violence and torture. Ever since, the country has faced repeated attacks against civil society activists and organisations, human rights defenders, and journalists. The regime's decision to suspend Belarus' participation in the Eastern Partnership and the Readmission Agreement paves the way for a further deterioration of the situation, evidenced by the recent large-scale liquidation of civil society.
International human rights organisations have recognised more than 600 people as political prisoners. All presidential candidates, as well as many of their relatives, friends and colleagues, are in prisons or in exile. As a result of the violent crackdown led by Belarusian authorities, law enforcement officers have killed at least 10 people. So far, there has been no investigation into these violations and the perpetrators have not faced any charges.
As the violence spirals, activists resisting the usurpation of power are also persecuted beyond Belarusian borders, some of them losing their lives under suspicious circumstances. To seize political opponents of the Belarusian regime, the authorities committed an act of air piracy by forcing an international Ryanair flight en route from Athens to Vilnius to land. Between 40,000 and 150,000 Belarusian citizens (exact figures are not published by official sources in Belarus) were forced to leave the country only in the last year, fleeing political persecution. Many of them are now residing in Georgia.
Under these circumstances, it is impossible to claim that the regime of Aliaksander Lukashenka cares to follow the fundamental principles of human rights and the rule of law, nor does it adhere to the Constitution. In response to widespread criticism, A. Lukashenka publicly stated that currently, he was "not up to the laws". The actions of Belarusian authorities and law enforcement agencies, including the KGB, have violated dozens of articles of the Constitution of the Republic of Belarus in the course of the last year and these violations went unpunished. Due to these unlawful activities and the brutal treatment of their opponents, Aliaksander Lukashenka himself as well as the heads of the security agencies of the Republic of Belarus, including KGB Chairman Ivan Tertel, are listed on the EU, US and other countries' targeted sanction lists.
For the reasons mentioned above, we believe that validating any agreement on cooperation with the criminal regime that is repressing its citizens and does not adhere to the country's Constitution is both inappropriate and dangerous.
We believe that by any potential future cooperation with the toxic political regime of A. Lukashenka and his punitive bodies, or by enforcing existing agreements like the one mentioned above, the Georgian authorities are running the risk of being discredited in the eyes of their own citizens and the international partners. Moreover, they would directly contribute to intensifying the level of repression experienced by the citizens of Belarus. The Georgian authorities should refrain from providing any personal information on the opponents of the Lukashenka regime who found temporary refuge in Georgia. Such requests should be rejected, given the fact that Lukashenka's regime is deliberately changing Belarusian legislation and law enforcement practice and procedures to charge critics and opponents of the regime of attempting to overthrow the constitutional order, terrorism and disclosing state secrets.
We call on the Government of Georgia, as well as the State Security Service of Georgia:
To show goodwill and to publicly terminate or freeze the Agreement on Cooperation between the State Security Committee of the Republic of Belarus and the State Security Service of Georgia and other intergovernmental agreements with the Belarusian regime that can lead to the persecution of its opponents abroad or to the handing over of personal data;
To publicly declare the inadmissibility of cooperation with the security services of the Republic of Belarus under the given circumstances until the end of the political crisis in the country;
To take all necessary measures to ensure the security of the citizens of Belarus residing on the territory of Georgia, following the example of the EU countries – namely Lithuania and Poland – and provide assistance to those who are opposing the illegitimate dictatorial regime of A. Lukashenka;
To coordinate measures and actions in support of Belarusian citizens seeking shelter from the unlawful regime with partners from the EU and the United States.
We call on the EU institutions and member states to:
Raise the issue of termination of the Agreement on Cooperation between the State Security Committee of the Republic of Belarus and the State Security Service of Georgia with the Georgian government;
Publicly express their condemnation of the commencement of the Agreement on Cooperation between the State Security Committee of the Republic of Belarus and the State Security Service of Georgia;
To discuss the situation of Belarusian citizens seeking shelter from the regime in Georgia with the Georgian government, especially the aspect of their personal data protection and personal security.
Members of the Steering Committee of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum
Statement of the EaP CSF Steering Committee on the Georgian-Belarusian security cooperation agreement, 31 August 2021.


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Help floods in from Toolstation
Toolstation has held a major fundraising day to assist the Royal National Lifeboat Institution's (RNLI) Flood Rescue Team – a highly trained unit which specialises in search and rescue work in fast-moving flood water across the UK.
The fundraiser was held in conjunction with the RNLI's SOS day, and there were a number of sponsored events such as a 60s or 70s fancy dress, a treasure hunt and a cake decorating competition. Additional fundraising activities were held across Toolstation's 148 branches nationwide, and the company also took part in a national sweepstake based on all the RNLI lifeboat stations. All money raised will be given to the RNLI Flood Rescue Team.
Toolstation's managing director Neil Carroll said: "Flooding across the UK has reached exceptional levels and the RNLI's Flood Rescue Team has been working non-stop to help people and communities in the affected areas.
"Since we took on the position of corporate sponsor for the Flood Rescue Team in 2010, one of our key aims has been to help raise funds and support its wide range of operational activities. The team does not receive government funding and we are pleased that everyone at Toolstation was willing to support and raise more money for such a great cause."
Robin Goodlad, RNLI flood response manager, said: "Demand for our services continues to grow fast, and our volunteer teams were deployed as recently as January, evacuating people from flooded homes in Wales. Since our formation in 2000, we now have around 250 trained volunteers divided into teams around the UK and Ireland to respond to incidents of inland flooding.
"Although Flood Rescue Team members are lifeboat crew, they undertake specialist training in order to work in flood water, which behaves differently from the sea water they are used to. They are also equipped with specialist equipment to enable them to carry out their vital work.
"We're really grateful for the support of Toolstation in funding our training and equipment and for taking part in our major fundraising day."


First things first: it's been a long wait, but finally a Front Mission game has been released in America and Europe, so what's Front Mission 3? It's basically a turn-based strategy/RPG much in the sense like Final Fantasy Tactics or Vandal Hearts, but the big difference that it's not about Fantasy or with manga-characters, the action takes place in Mechs (big robots like you maybe have seen in the Mechwarrior series or in various animé-series like Gundam. The second difference with games from this genre is the adult storyline, a really grown-up story, with life-like characters, and as you expect from Square, the plot is very good with lot of twists and turns.
Gameplay: Very good, the difficulty level is very well balanced, if you're good equipped you will rarely lose battles, on the other side, earning platinum medals during the missions is not easy, except for the beginning.
Story: Like I said before, this is Square, you know what to expect.
Music/Sound effects: The sound effects are pretty basic, but they do their job, and the music fits the game perfectly, I especially liked the music after the winning a battle, of course that's a matter of personal opinion.
Lifespan (replayability): It will take some time to get through, 30-60 hours for one storyline, depends on your experience with such games, there are 2 different storylines to play (Emma's and Alisa's scenario) so you really need to play the game twice if you want to master it.
Conclusion: If you're a fan of this genre ,buying is the only thing I recommend, others will probably rent it first.
-graphics a little outdated (in close-up lot of pixellation).


SGS continued to put in lower highs last week for the second week in a row since SPX put in a fresh all-time high (2400.98). If selling accelerates, SGS would cross zero line and turn SHORT sometime this week.
Shorter term, despite selling since March 1, indices are still overbought. Chances are good that SPX continues going lower this coming week and tests of its PUL-3 around 2350.
I am going to follow SGS and start buying SPY if SGS starts to uptick and closes above its ADL. If SGS continues to go lower and turns short, I would start opening short positions in SPX by buying SH.


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Q: Excel conditional formatting - find rows that have the same value in two columns I want to find duplicates of names (first and last) using conditional formatting. How can I make excel effectively treat the first and las name as one unique value in the formatting so I can see this.
It doesn't need to be using conditional formatting. I'm open to any solutions. Thanks!

A: Without doing a helper column, you can use this Conditional Format:
=COUNTIFS($A$1:$A$100,$A1,$B$1:$B$100,$B1)>1

applied to range =$A$1:$B$100
(Assuming your first names are in Column A, last Names are in Column B:


Vibrant and gorgeous red pearls make these a beautiful pair of small drop earrings. Simple and easy to wear to brighten up any outfit for any occasion. I've used two small round red pearls (6mm) with a tiny (2mm) sterling silver bead in between them. The drop measures just over .5" (1.5cm) from the bottom of the hook.


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Q: I can not find /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch I have enable switcheroo in kernel config .
Why is there not /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch ?

Linux ubuntu-raid-w500 2.6.38-10-generic #46-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jun 28 15:07:17 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

My computer is Thinkpad W500 . One graphic card is ATI Mobility FireGL V5700 (512 MB). The other one is Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD .
I am using official kernel 2.6.38-10, I do NOT customize it. I add kernel option pcie_aspm=force in GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT of /etc/default/grub

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*Setting modeset=1 doesn't seem to help

*Here is the output of kern.log

*Here is my entire bootup.

A: In Ubuntu 10.10 and up, vgaswitchheroo is already enabled so you don't need extra settings. And /sys/kernel/debug is already mounted, however you need root permissions to read the contents of /sys/kernel/debug, so using sudo su should work.
If there's still no switch, run lspci | grep VGA and make sure both cards are outputted. If one is missing a BIOS setting might be the cause, so check that.
Console example:
sergio@Sergio-L:~$ ls /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo
ls: impossível aceder a /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo: Permissão negada
sergio@Sergio-L:~$ sudo su
[sudo] password for sergio:
root@Sergio-L:/home/sergio#
root@Sergio-L:/home/sergio# ls /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/
switch
root@Sergio-L:/home/sergio#

A: If you are not using the open-source radeon driver (or the nouveau driver in case of nvidia hardware), there won't be a /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/switch file. (ignoring hacks like asus-switcheroo and byo-switcheroo). Disabling KMS ("modeset=0") turns off this functionality too.
Even if the file exist, it cannot be reliable used when proprietary drivers (fglrx, nvidia) are loaded thereafter. You may experience lockups when trying to write commands to it. For vga_switcheroo on NVIDIA hardware, see also How to enable vga switcheroo on an Asus U41S?. For NVIDIA Optimus hardware in general, see Is a NVIDIA GeForce with Optimus Technology supported by Ubuntu?

A: The answer in my case was buried above in a comment : there is a BIOS option on my HP laptop named "HybridGraphics" and it was set to "AUTO". This is seemingly not enough, and one has to set it to "ENABLE".


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The death of the combustion engine, China prepares to announce ban
By Matthew Griffin Future Transport 12th September 2017
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF
It now looks inevitable that the world will make the switch to electric vehicles, but there is still a lot to be done to build out the infrastructure and capacity needed to support these governments aspirations
Sell your oil and gas stocks, and throw out your old log burners. The world is changing and the renewable energy trends, or, to put it another way, the trends away from fossil fuels to new cleaner fuels, are all accelerating.
As the amount of new renewable energy coming online, from solar and wind power to geothermal and tidal power, continues to break records, and as renewable energy prices continue to plummet to become the cheapest forms of energy on Earth it's evident that we're witnessing a paradigm shift in action.
Volkswagen to test its quantum computer powered satnav in real traffic
That said though for those of you eager to see the sun rise on the day when the last fossil fuel power station is turned off you'll still have some time to wait, but it's now conceivable that you'll see it in your lifetime.
Wherever you look it looks like there's no stopping the trend. Aircraft and cars are going electric, but that said there are two great ways to speed up the acceleration of a trend. The first, or course, is demand, and the second is regulations, and when we look at sales of electric cars, for example, it's clear there's a demand but, overall, it's still modest.
However, what if your country's government dictated you could only buy an electric vehicle? What would that do to the demand side? It'd move the it from zero to hero, and that's precisely what's happening right now, and as a result more auto manufacturers are pouring more investment into developing the technology, it gets better, more people buy into it and it becomes a virtuous, accelerating cycle. In short that trend that was moving quickly before, is now accelerating like crazy and before you know it we're all sitting in electric cars looking bemused and wondering why we've just pulled up at a petrol pump.
Musk unveils his newest transportation concept for Los Angeles
Over the course of the past year France, Germany (and the EU), India and the UK have all announced they're banning the sale of petrol and diesel cars from 2030 to 2040, with their entire car fleets being electric by no later than 2050, and that's not bad, after all these countries governments represent over 1.7 Billion consumers, or around a third of the world's population. But what if another country, for example, China banned the sale of petrol and diesel cars? Well, all of a sudden that figure would leap from 1.7 to 3.1 Billion consumers and that's almost half the world's population. And that would be an unstoppable trend.
Now, that's precisely what it looks like China are going to do, and as a result you can expect the move to hasten the demise of the century old combustion engine and relegate it to a museum.
China, the world's biggest vehicle market, is considering a ban on the production and sale of fossil fuel cars in a major boost to the production of electric vehicles as Beijing seeks to ease pollution.
Xin Guobin, vice-minister of industry and information technology, told a forum in the northern city of Tianjin at the weekend that his ministry had started "relevant research" and was working on a timetable for China.
A hydrogen powered drone just made an epic ocean crossing
Xin said the policy would be implemented "in the near future", according to the official Xinhua news agency.
"These measures will promote profound changes in the environment and give momentum to China's auto industry development," he said in remarks broadcast by CCTV state television.
"Enterprises should strive to improve the level of energy saving for traditional cars, and vigorously develop new energy vehicles according to assessment requirements," he said.
China produced and sold more than 28m vehicles last year, according to the International Organization of Motor Vehicle Manufacturers, and the sale of new energy vehicles topped 500,000 in the world's second largest economy in 2016, over 50% more than the previous year, according to national industry figures.
Maritime regulator gets set to allow autonomous ships on the high seas
In June the government introduced new draft regulation to compel vehicle manufacturers to produce more electrically powered vehicles by 2020 via a complex quota system, and now, funnily enough more automotive manufacturers are promising to make more electric cars in China, who as it happens is also just about to spend $30 Billion building out new battery and component factories to support the switch.
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A trial balance is a list of all the general ledger accounts (both revenue and capital) contained in the ledger of a business. This list will contain the name of each nominal ledger account and the value of that nominal ledger balance. Each nominal ledger account will hold either a debit balance or a credit balance. The debit balance values will be listed in the debit column of the trial balance and the credit value balance will be listed in the credit column. The trading profit and loss statement and balance sheet and other financial reports can then be produced using the ledger accounts listed on the trial balance.
The process was first described by Luca Pacioli in the 1494 work Particularis de Computis et Scripturis. Although it did not use the term, he essentially prescribed a technique similar to a post-closing trial balance.
The purpose of a trial balance is to prove that the value of all the debit value balances equal the total of all the credit value balances. If the total of the debit column does not equal the total value of the credit column then this would show that there is an error in the nominal ledger accounts. This error must be found before a profit and loss statement and balance sheet can be produced.
The trial balance is usually prepared by a bookkeeper or accountant who has used daybooks to record financial transactions and then post them to the nominal ledgers and personal ledger accounts. The trial balance is a part of the double-entry bookkeeping system and uses the classic 'T' account format for presenting values.
A trial balance only checks the sum of debits against the sum of credits. That is why it does not guarantee that there are no errors. The following are the main classes of errors that are not detected by the trial balance.
An error of original entry is when both sides of a transaction include the wrong amount. For example, if a purchase invoice for £21 is entered as £12, this will result in an incorrect debit entry (to purchases), and an incorrect credit entry (to the relevant creditor account), both for £9 less, so the total of both columns will be £9 less, and will thus balance.
An error of omission is when a transaction is completely omitted from the accounting records. As the debits and credits for the transaction would balance, omitting it would still leave the totals balanced. A variation of this error is omitting one of the ledger account totals from the trial balance (but in this case the trial balance will not balance).
An error of reversal is when entries are made to the correct amount, but with debits instead of credits, and vice versa. For example, if a cash sale for £100 is debited to the Sales account, and credited to the Cash account. Such an error will not affect the totals.
An error of commission is when the entries are made at the correct amount, and the appropriate side (debit or credit), but one or more entries are made to the wrong account of the correct type. For example, if fuel costs are incorrectly debited to the postage account (both expense accounts). This will not affect the totals.
An error of principle is when the entries are made to the correct amount, and the appropriate side (debit or credit), as with an error of commission, but the wrong type of account is used. For example, if fuel costs (an expense account), are debited to stock (an asset account). This will not affect the totals.
Compensating errors are multiple unrelated errors that would individually lead to an imbalance, but together cancel each other out.
↑ Michael Chatfield; Richard Vangermeersch (5 February 2014). The History of Accounting (RLE Accounting): An International Encylopedia. Routledge. pp. 587–. ISBN 978-1-134-67545-6.
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↑ Riad Izhar; Janet Hontoir (2001). Accounting, Costing and Management. Oxford University Press. pp. 61–62. ISBN 978-0-19-832823-0.
↑ Arun Kumar; Rachana Sharma (1 January 2001). Auditing: Theory and Practice. Atlantic Publishers & Dist. pp. 20–. ISBN 978-81-7156-720-1.


This poem is for my wonderful and caring Nanny, she does so much for us and today is her birthday. Happy Birthday.
This poem is about an apple that ends up being whizzed into a super delicious smoothie that my nanny likes to make in her Nutribullet each day.
I'm trembling, a giant hand seizes me and takes me from the bowl.
My time has come, the humans are taking their toll.
I cry great juicy tears.
I struggle until all my energy is sapped.
when the glinting blade will blitz my head.
what will happen in this deathly cell.
and the blade starts whizzing as I have said.
soon I'll be part of that green slimy throng.
when I grew on a tree in a land faraway.
"Be bold, little apple, be brave".
and the memory of a tree in a land faraway.
ps I think this is one of my favourite poems I've ever written!
Last week my family and I went on holiday to the lovely little seaside town of Lyme Regis. We had such an amazing time I thought I'd share a few photos and memories.
Most of our time was spent on the beach, building sandcastle, swimming in the sea and burying each other in the sand.
Dad, Evan and Irys spent ages making me such a beautiful mermaid tail!
It was Lyme Regis Lifeboat Week while we were there so there were loads of awesome activities on. We took part in a few of them.
Morris Dancing and we got to join in! It was really fun swirling hankies and skipping.
Irys and Evan joined in a treasure hunt on the sandy beach. Here's irys digging for her life.
There was a pavement art competition. This was my entry. I didn't win.
Because it was lifeboat week the RNLI (royal national lifeboat institution) put on lots of displays. At one point we actually got to board the boat and have a look inside!
Ev trying on a crew member's helmet.
This photo says it all. My bro is in absolute paradise, he LOVES the RNLI.
Me sitting in the lifeboat navigator's seat.
We did a few walks on our holiday. Some long, some short. On one short walk we saw a stunning viaduct, so impressive. Another time we walked about 9 miles to Seaton, got the bus back to Lyme and then had to walk 2 or 3 miles back to the campsite. I must admit, my feet nearly dropped off!
This was taken just over half way through the walk.
Clambouring precariously along a fallen down tree which was resting against another tree. It was about 20 foot above the ground.
This photo is of a water mill that was on our daily walk into Lyme.
We took some really cool selfies while on our hols. I tried to be creative and do something a little different when I took the one of me laying on the stones.
My Mum and Dad with Lyme Regis in the background.
I love fireworks, they're magical. I love to come up with names for all the different types, gold sparkles, fairy dust and lily flower. Watching them shoot up from the end of The Cob and explode above the sea, lighting it up in a thousand different colours, beautiful, just beautiful.
Fire Shower is my name for this one.
The Cob is a long wall in Lyme Regis that encircles the harbour. It is fun to walk along, you can feel the fresh sea breeze and it whips your hair around. My Mum and Uncle used to spend all of their holidays in Lyme, doing all the stuff we've done.
Looking down into the sea.
Evan about to walk along a rickety pontoon and then board the lifeboat. It's a dream come true for him.
I had to include this lovely photo of my sister.
This is Irys at our campsite, Hook Farm Camping.
Our great great grandparents used to be part of the bowling team on Lyme green. They have a bench here in their memory.
After our lovely holiday in Lyme Regis we finally had to leave, but the fun was not over. We had a few places to stop on the way home, including the Cerne Giant, a village fete and Durdle Door, a place of wonder and tranquility, although it is invaded by hundreds of tourists every summer.
Coconut shy! Dad got two, but I got none.
A lovely family photo in front of the Cerne Giant.
The village fete we went to was in some one's garden and they had an outdoor swimming pool. Irys and I had a swim.
My Siblings playing at dusk.
The view of the beach, cove and arch from the cliff top.
Irys and the famous arch.
This is a perfect picture. If I stare at it hard enough a poem starts to form in my mind.
I'll finish with a few family shots and a big thank you to my Mum and Dad for such an awesome holiday.
Sitting on the step of our camper van.
Walking in the sea's shallows.
Jeans for Genes Day is drawing near! I'm sure some of you have heard of it and maybe even done something with your friends, school or work in aid of this amazing charity. For those who aren't familiar with it, here goes my explanation.
Jeans for Genes is a charity helping children with genetic disorders. On the 18 September every year, people in groups, schools, nurseries and workplaces all over the place get together and do something extraordinary in their jeans.
The money they raise goes to the charity and they use it to create life changing projects, such as A Week On The Open Ocean, which gives children born with no eyes the opportunity to spend a week learning to sail and steer out in the English Channel. One teenage girl said that she didn't dare to leave the house without her prosthetic eyes before the course. She left them behind when she went on the boat and now she feels so much more confident without them. She also said that it taught her to be brave and try new things. It's really incredible.
It also provides equipment for the kids, like wheelchairs or communicating devices. It makes life a whole lot more pleasurable and easier for them and their families. They pay for well-earned holidays for young carers, who sacrifice their own life for the needs of others. They are true legends, they should be celebrated.
These children are so amazing, you think what they've been through, yet they don't give up, they fight until the very end. When asked, " What do want the most?", one young boy with restricted growth answered, "I wouldn't change who I am for a million bucks, I just want to be accepted as who I am". They don't want to feel excluded and bullied just because they are different, at heart they are just the same as any other child, special.
I only heard about the charity recently, but as soon as I'd sat, my eyes glued to the article in First News, for ten minutes, I'd already made up my mind. I wanted to help. So I thought about what I could do in my jeans, a sponsored silence? A walk? A run? A swim? A cake sale? The main purpose of this blog was to make others aware of Jeans for Genes Day and to gather lots of ideas for things I could do to raise money for Jeans for Genes, extraordinary things for extraordinary kids.
Everyone has dreams, ideas, things that float about in your head, but only some people have a special and unique ability to put these thoughts and daydreams into a beautifully woven web of words, music or paint. Some of these people are poets, artists, musicians, authors, playwrights, singers and lyricists.
Some boys, including my Dad and Brother, might think, "I'd rather go fishing". Well, the way I see poetry is rather like fishing. I have a theory that everyone has words swimming about in their mind, your pencil and paper are like your rod and net, you catch the words with your pencil and put them on your peice of paper. Some people are naturally talented at poetry, while others are more practical, really it doesn't matter, it's the enthusiasm that makes a difference.
So let me know, whether you already love writing poetry or you have just decided to begin, what have you written about?
she leaves an amber burn upon your cheek.
Will you stay with me forever?
Under the skies of beauty.
when I ask if you will leave me?
sleep in the sun's quarters.
a hundred birds begin to sing.
I love tennis, as I'm sure some of you all do too. It is my dream to go to Wimbledon one day, I would love it. It's fun to watch or play, but have you ever thought about who your favourite player is? I only really watch Wimbledon, sometimes Queens. It's really hard to decide who you want to win, but I always cheer for the new players. I just think that if the same top people like Andy Murray, Novak Djokovic, Serena Williams and Roger Federer win every year it gets a bit boring and predictable.
My fave has to be Jo-Wilfred Tsonga, he is so smiley. I want to know who your favourites are, do you cheer on the not so famous players? Are you loyal to your country's favourites? Let me know, leave a comment below.
Here's my Wimbledon poem, hopefully I've captured the main feel and elements of the tournament.
the audience rises in applause.
as the crowd tucks into strawberries and cream.
players doing rallies and shots.


Exam Bites is one such sculpt of e-learning. It was the intent of a student whose own story involves low grades. CEO Exam Bites, Mamoon Sharif, started working on this initiative when he once failed a test merely because his concepts were not clear. He started off with a team of 6 people bound to change the concept of rote learning in our educational system which eventually leads the students to encode information into memory without understanding what they're being taught. Exam Bites is currently incubated in Plan9, PITB's Technology Incubator. Mamoon has faced a lot of difficulties in his mission understandably, but he stood strong and his continuous hard work made him win the best Education Tech startup award at Ilm Ideas 2 showcase.
He further added that he was inspired by the Finland education model where the students do not have a strict curriculum, no exams for the initial years, and all they have to do is focus on learning at their own pace without the fear of failure. Exambites is offering courses for grades 9th, 10th and O levels. It is a specialist e-learning system, where a team of highly skilled instructors, designers and animators come together to create catchy and easy to understand content. Using 2D/3D Animations and simulations, video lectures are created to be played in classrooms to help students understand in interesting and informative ways.
They deliver online lectures to the students as well as provide personalized pen drives that work offline to deliver the best possible education, without depending on internet connection. Another one of their features is dual audio solution to help students learn different languages. Currently they have created animated explainer videos of grade 9th and 10th in Urdu/Hindi, English and are soon planning to scale this globally by adding Arabic, Turkish and Chinese.
Exambites is bound to change the way people see education. They are already making waves in the Ed-tech domain in Pakistan and we wish to see them go global with their initiative in the future.


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Axiom Audiobyte Audiophile Computer Speakers
Friday, 18 July 2008 06:31	Last Updated on Friday, 18 July 2008 15:42	Written by Benjamin "Zeus" Heide
Audiobyte Amplifier and Subwoofer
Audiobytes Overview, Specs and Test Setup
Testing the Audiobytes and Final Thoughts
Product: Axiom Audiobyte Computer Speakers + EPZero Subwoofer
Provided By: Axiom Audio
Price: $517CAD as Configured
There are several types of people who enjoy audio. There are those that enjoy the general music and don't care too much about sound quality and are happy with almost any type of speaker and there are those that love to have their brain shaken by bass and love to feel and experience the music on a physical level. There are also those who love to have music accurately and precisely reproduced as it was recorded and meant to be heard. This last group of people is audiophiles and they insist on accurate, clear and vibrant audio without one aspect drowning out the other. We are looking at a set of computer speakers from Axiom today that are geared toward the Audiophile with a computer.
There are some audiophiles that hook their desktop and laptop computers to a large amp and their home theater, but this is not always practical in an office or den. The Audiobyte speakers are small, quite powerful and promise clarity and quality for your listening experience. We'll see.
About Axiom Audio:
Many of you have probably heard about Axiom in the past. They are a great speaker builder and have a lot of expertise and experience behind them. They are not new to the industry at all. You can read all of their corporate information here, or check out a brief overview below.
For more than two decades, Axiom Audio has made its reputation by achieving unprecedented performance quality.
At inception, Axiom Audio's founder Ian Colquhoun sparked a new period of progress in the annals of loudspeaker design with his work at the National Research Council lab in Ottawa, Canada, under the direction of Dr. Floyd Toole. There he spent innumerable hours perfecting innovation after innovation.
The revolutionary theories and methodology resulting from this work were recognized and published in industry journals around the world. Canadian audio engineering gained particularly high status, which Ian Colquhoun and his company have helped maintain ever since.
Axiom's reputation grew dramatically among audio aficionados throughout North America. With the emergence of Internet mass communications, Axiom became an extremely popular "secret" among A/V enthusiasts.
By emphasizing the practical application of our ongoing research, Axiom continues to extend people's expectations of performance and value.
Today's Axiom line offers a wide range of choices that move the benchmarks farther than ever. Axiom now produces eight-sided seamless cabinets with the ground-breaking Anti Standing Wave (ASW) wedge-shaped design, esoteric driver design, internal crossover network innovations too numerous to mention, and distortion-free vortex porting.
With offices and manufacturing facilities situated in the unspoiled Muskoka district of Ontario, Axiom is today counted as one of the cornerstones of the Canadian loudspeaker business. Using the world's most advanced computerized equipment, the company has become one of the world's premier manufacturers of quality loudspeakers.
We had the pleasure to meet Ian and his associates at CES 2008 in Las Vegas earlier this year and we talked about Axiom's passion for quality sound and how other companies neglect quality and accuracy and substitute unbalance volume. It was a very interesting meeting.
First Look - Satellites:
The Axiom Audiobyte basic kit is a pair of speakers that are powered by a small amplifier. These are designed for computer use and are quite compact.
Satellite With Grill
Satellite Without Grill
The speakers measure 6.5" tall, 5.5" wide and 4" deep. They come with a 3" aluminum cone woofer and a 1" titanium dome tweeter. The speaker grill is easily removed as it is held in place by four hidden magnets. This design works very well at keeping the grill in place yet doesn't leave any unsightly holes where the grill would normally attach through use of traditional speaker grill mounts.
Satellite Grill
The Audiobyte speakers come in many different colors and finishes including natural wood finishes that looks like pieces of furniture and works of art. We elected to take a look at something more neutral to any computer system and that is why we have the standard black finish units on our bench.
AudioBytes Satellites
Back Of Satellites
As you can see above, the Audiobytes look very sharp without the grills. The aluminum and titanium cones offer a very nice contrast to the black finish of the rest of the speaker cabinet. As we take a look at the back we discover that the speakers are connected to the amplifier by a simple 1/8" stereo plug - a headphone jack - if you will. While this causes some limitations on how far apart you can place the speakers in a larger room, the reality is that these are made for a computer and there is ample cable included to place them almost 20' apart.
On the next page we'll take a look at the amplifier and the subwoofer before we jump into testing.


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Queen Elizabeth II will receive Joe Biden in person on June 13, after the G7
Cole Hanson
Buckingham Palace said in a statement on Thursday that Queen Elizabeth II will receive US President Joe Biden in person on June 13, the last day of the G7 summit in southwest England.
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The 95-year-old will meet leader and first lady Jill Biden at Windsor Castle in west London, where she has retreated since the coronavirus pandemic hit the UK in March 2020.
Her Majesty, who received two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, has since kept almost the vast majority of her commitments, including hearings with foreign ambassadors. It will be her biggest official engagement since she presided over the official opening of Parliament on May 11, and her first public appearance since the funeral of her husband Prince Philip in April.
With the exception of Lyndon Johnson, the Queen met all US presidents during her 69-year reign. She thus welcomed Biden's predecessor, Donald Trump, during a controversial state visit in June 2019.
The meeting comes on the occasion of the visit of the US president to England, who from June 11-13 will be participating with the leaders of Germany, Canada, France, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom at the G7 summit in Cornwall.
This summit will also mark the US leader, who took office in January, his first personal engagement abroad, which has so far been limited in his travels due to the pandemic.
He then travels to Brussels for the NATO leaders summit on June 14, followed by the EU-US summit, and then to Geneva to meet Vladimir Putin on June 16.
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This is by far the most popular pedestrian shopping destination in the entire city of Lyon. This is the place where locals and visitors alike come to spend time with one another and where several festivals and events are held throughout the year. Between Monday and Saturday of each week, the shops are open. Stores sell everything from home goods and clothing, but it is not an area where shoppers will find upscale purchases or designer boutiques. Two other roads run alongside Rue de la République and offer similar shopping opportunities. These are the Rue de Brest and the Rue du Président Edouard Herriot.
Located between Quai St Antoine and Quai des Célestins, the St. Antoine Market is a must visit shopping destination for anyone interested in purchasing fresh local food ingredients or homemade goods made in the traditional Lyon fashion. It has been a central location for decades, but the market is open only during the mornings between Tuesday and Sunday.
The various regions of France is known for producing spectacular wines, and Lyon is certainly no exception. Visitors and locals who want to purchase the best of local wines to drink or to bring home as souvenirs should be sure to visit the Vercoquin. This wine store boasts thousands of different varietals and even allows shoppers to open and taste their newly purchased bottles right in the connected wine bar.
While there are many traditional French shops and markets in Lyon, there are also plenty of exotic and fascinating stores offering wares from around the world. Bahadourian is one such example. The large shop sells all things exotic including Asian toys and handmade crafts. It is also the perfect place to get a taste for North African foods and desserts, which are sold warm and ready to eat right in the store or the adjacent cafe.
This older section of the city boasts Renaissance architecture and medieval buildings sure to impress. It is also a center of commerce for locals and tourists alike. While streets like Rue St. Jean and Rue la Boeuf are home to a large number of stores and cafes, the clientele is typically international visitors. Prices may be higher here than in some smaller shops outside of the city center, but there is no better place to find souvenirs and handcrafts made right in the city of Lyon.