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Wrestling legend Andre the Giant, who stood 7'4″ (224 cm) and weighed in at 525 lbs (238 kg) was one of the highest-paid performers during the 1970s and early '80s. Often regarded as "The Eighth Wonder of the World," Andre the Giant was a WWF (now known as WWE) Champion and a WWF World Tag Team Champion.
Andre Rene Roussimoff was born on May 19, 1946, in Grenoble, France, to Boris and Mariann Roussimoff, a couple of Bulgarian and Polish ancestry. All members of his family were of average size and he was normal-sized at his birth, so nobody assumed anything out of the ordinary.
Professional wrestler André the Giant walking to the ring in the late 1980s. Photo Credit
However, Andre suffered from gigantism, later resulting in acromegaly, a disorder that results from excess growth hormone, that caused him to reach a height of 191 cm (6 ft 3 in) and a weight of 94 kg (208 lb) by the age of 12.
Twelve-year-old Andre was too huge to take the regular bus to school and his father could not afford to buy a car that would be big enough to fit his 12-year-old son. However, the author of Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett, who was his father's friend and his neighbor, offered to bring Andre to school each day in his truck.
The famed playwright and Nobel Prize winner (literature) bought a plot of land 60 km (40 mi) northeast of Paris back in 1953 and built a cottage for himself with the help of Andre's father, Boris Rousimoff. When Beckett learned that Boris' son was too big to take the regular bus to school, he offered to be Andre's chauffeur.
Beckett offered to drive André to school in his truck.
The Irishman and Andre became close friends and when Andre recounted the drives with Beckett, he revealed that they rarely talked about anything besides cricket.
André (second from right) feuded with Big John Studd (left) in the build towards WrestleMania I, and later with King Kong Bundy (second from left). Photo Credit
Andre was an excellent mathematician and he was doing pretty good in school but decided to drop out after the eighth grade and started working on his father's farm.
It seemed inevitable that Andre would excel in the wrestling world and when he was 17-years-old he moved to Paris where he was taught professional wrestling. It didn't take long before French wrestling champion Frank Valois saw Andre's potential and became his manager and adviser.
André feuded with Jake Roberts, who played on André's fear of snakes. Photo Credit
He started wrestling in Montreal under the name of Jean Ferre and wrestled for the International Wrestling Enterprise in Japan in 1970, where he became a smash hit. However, his life changed forever after he debuted at Madison Square Garden as "Andre the Giant," and became one of the world's most famous professional athletes.
In 1987, Andre was part of one of the most famous WrestleMania matches in history and the "biggest main event in sports entertainment." In front of 90,000 fans in Detroit, Michigan, Andre wrestled fellow legend Hulk Hogan in the main event of WrestleMania III.
André was managed by Bobby Heenan (seen in front of him) during parts of his feud with Hulk Hogan. Photo Credit
His height and weight were also noticed by Hollywood and he appeared in many films and television shows, including Rob Reiner's classic The Princess Bride.
Read another story from us: Samuel Beckett objected to female theater groups staging his play "Waiting for Godot" because "women don't have prostates and couldn't portray the characters accurately"
He continued to wrestle, besides the fact that he faced serious health issues due to his size. This was eventually to prove too much for his heart and he died of heart attack in January 1993, after attending a WCW reunion.
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Alexandra Stevenson
Alexandra Winfield Stevenson (born December 15, 1980) is an American former professional tennis player.
(1980-12-15) December 15, 1980 (age 41)
Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
427–448 (48.8%)
1 ITF
No. 18 (October 28, 2002)
1R (1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004)
1 WTA
No. 67 (July 7, 2003)
Winnipeg 1999 Women's Singles
2.1 Early years
2.2 Injury and return
2.3 Playing style
2.4 Broadcast career
3 WTA career finals
3.1 Singles: 2 (2 runner-ups)
3.2 Doubles: 1 (1 title)
4 ITF Circuit finals
4.1 Singles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner–up)
4.2 Doubles: 2 (2 runner-ups)
5 Singles performance timeline
Personal lifeEdit
Stevenson's mother is Samantha Stevenson, a sports journalist.[1] Her father is National Basketball Association player Julius Erving. Stevenson met her father for the first time in October 2004 after she initiated a meeting. The meeting was documented by ESPN.com's "Reaching Out". Stevenson keeps up with her father between tournaments.
Stevenson graduated from the University of Colorado in December 2007, with a Bachelor of Liberal Arts, Sociology[citation needed]. She graduated on the Dean's List and is the only final-eight member to have graduated from college while playing professional tennis. Stevenson was inducted into the La Jolla Country Day School Hall of Fame in December 2009 – joining fellow Torrey, Rashaan Salaam, the 1994 Heisman Trophy winner.[2]
On September 11, 2001, Stevenson lost one of her friends – Manny Del Valle, a fireman – in the World Trade Center. She wrote an article in The New York Times about Del Valle, a driver to the players at the US Open.[3] In 2002, the four Grand Slam tournaments allowed Stevenson to wear the patch of DelValle's Engine Company (Engine No. 5) on her Nike cap.[citation needed]
CareerEdit
Early yearsEdit
Stevenson made her professional tennis debut in 1998 as a wild card at the US Open where she lost in the first round to France's Alexandra Fusai. In 1999 Stevenson qualified and ultimately reached the quarterfinals at Birmingham, a grass warmup to Wimbledon, before withdrawing to Magüi Serna because of a stomach muscle pull. The next week, Stevenson was the number one seed during qualifying at Roehampton—and did not drop a set in three rounds as she moved into the main draw at Wimbledon. At Wimbledon, two weeks after graduating from La Jolla Country Day School, she became the second woman qualifier in the tennis Open Era to reach the semifinals. It was her second time at Wimbledon, having competed the year before in the Junior Wimbledon Championships. Stevenson beat 11th seed Julie Halard in the third round. In the fourth round, she saved one match point against Lisa Raymond in a 2–6, 7–6, 6–1 win. She then beat Jelena Dokić in three sets in the quarterfinals, before losing to the eventual champion, third seed Lindsay Davenport. Stevenson had 57 aces during the fortnight, her serve speed over 120 mph. It was the beginning of Stevenson being known for the fastest second serve in the women's game.[citation needed] Stevenson's second serve was 105 mph – 115 mph. Phil Knight, the co-founder and chairman of Nike, flew to London to personally sign Stevenson to a three-year contract.
During the months following her dramatic run at Wimbledon, Stevenson was named Rookie of the Year by Tennis Magazine and named Most Fascinating by People Magazine.[citation needed] She was interviewed by Barbara Walters for a Barbara Walters Special and was featured in a variety of national and international media. Nike flew a dozen flags with Stevenson's name in bold print during her first visit to the iconic campus. Stevenson moved from California to train with Nick Bollettieri at IMG Academy from 1999 to 2002. In 2000 and 2001, Stevenson, often pitted against top 20 players – including Nathalie Tauziat, Mary Pierce, Martina Hingis, Monica Seles, Amanda Coetzer, Lisa Raymond, Dominique Van Roost, Julie Halard, Jennifer Capriati, Serena Williams, and Venus Williams – worked on her aggressive all-court playing style as she found her way in the professional game.
Stevenson reached the quarterfinals at Quebec City in 2001, and the quarterfinals at Linz, defeating Arantxa Sánchez Vicario en route.
But, it was in 2002 that Stevenson moved up to No. 18 in the world. She had played during the European indoor season in 2001 and was the only American player to appear in Moscow in 2001 following the September 11 terrorist attacks. In 2002, prior to the European indoors, she lost to Monica Seles in the Tokyo quarterfinals 6–7(9), 6–7(9), and there were no breaks of serve until the tiebreakers. Alan Mills, the Tokyo referee and renowned Wimbledon referee proclaimed, "This is the finest women's serving match I have ever seen."[citation needed] Soon after, Seles and Stevenson were asked to serve aces for the American Heart Association, bringing awareness to heart disease. Stevenson served 100 aces in 2003.[citation needed] During the 2002 European indoors, Stevenson won her first doubles title with Serena Williams in Leipzig, Germany. She reached the quarterfinals of Filderstadt, defeating number one Jennifer Capriati. She was a finalist at Linz, beating two top ten players en route, including Capriati. Stevenson finished the year at 18, percentage points away from No. 17, Elena Dementieva.
Injury and returnEdit
Stevenson experienced shoulder pain in 2003 at the Wimbledon Championships. She worked on strengthening the area, but was unable to repair the tear. Stevenson went to Birmingham, Alabama, where Dr. James Andrews performed a type II labral repair on her right shoulder in September 2004. In 2006, following 18 months of shoulder strengthening, Stevenson began to mount a comeback.[citation needed]
Stevenson played in the qualifying round at 2006 Wimbledon, but after defeating Jelena Dokić, a player that she had played in 1999 in the Wimbledon quarterfinals, when they were both qualifiers, she suffered a pectoral strain and fell in the second round of qualifiers. At the 2006 Cincinnati Open, she also had a successful run in the qualifying round, but continued shoulder pain caused her to fall in the final round to Chan Chin-wei, 6–3, 3–6, 5–7. By 2009, Stevenson gained shoulder strength and posted strong results.[citation needed] In 2010, Kevin Wilk, Dr. Andrews' physical therapist, said that Stevenson's shoulder "feels like a non-surgical arm."[citation needed]
Stevenson won the Sarasota Clay Court Invitational in April 2012.[citation needed]
Playing styleEdit
Stevenson joined Venus Williams, Serena Williams, Lindsay Davenport, Monica Seles, Mary Pierce and Jennifer Capriati as a premier power player on the WTA Tour in 1999.[citation needed] 6' 1" and right-handed, she plays with a one-handed backhand. Her serve, forehand, and one-handed backhand are noted weapons in Stevenson's all-court game. Her fastest serve was clocked at 125 mph.[citation needed] She had the fastest second serve in the women's game from 1999 to 2004 at 105–115 mph.[citation needed] She was the first woman to amass 57 aces during the Wimbledon fortnight in 1999.[citation needed] The power game came from years of repetitive lessons. At nine years old, Stevenson began traveling from her home in San Diego to Los Angeles to be coached by Robert Lansdorp and Pete Fischer. It was Lansdorp who developed her powerful ground game, changing her two-handed backhand to a one-handed backhand.[citation needed] Lansdorp would tie her arm with an ace bandage to work on the backhand motion.[citation needed] Fischer, who also coached Pete Sampras, developed Stevenson's service motion, often used by coaches to teach "the perfect service motion."[citation needed] Fischer designed service drills to resemble Sampras' fluid serve.[citation needed]
Broadcast careerEdit
Starting in August 2019, Stevenson joined the ESPN tennis commentating team in their coverage of the qualifying and main draws of the 2019 US Open. She also did the commentating at the 2020 and 2021 US Open for ESPN.
WTA career finalsEdit
Singles: 2 (2 runner-ups)Edit
Legend (pre/post 2009)
Grand Slam tournaments (0–0)
Tier I / Premier Mandatory & Premier 5 (0–0)
Tier II / Premier (0–1)
Tier III, IV & V / International (0–1)
Carpet (0–0)
Finals by setting
Loss 0–1 Feb 2002 Memphis Cup, United States Tier III Hard (i)
Lisa Raymond 6–4, 3–6, 6–7(9–11)
Loss 0–2 Oct 2002 Generali Ladies Linz, Austria Tier II Hard (i)
Justine Henin 3–6, 0–6
Doubles: 1 (1 title)Edit
Win 1–0 Sep 2002 Sparkassen Cup, Germany Tier II Carpet (i)
Janette Husárová
Paola Suárez 6–3, 7–5
ITF Circuit finalsEdit
Singles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner–up)Edit
Win 1–0 Feb 1998 Midland Classic, United States 50,000 Hard (i)
Samantha Reeves 7–6(10–8), 6–1
Loss 1–1 May 2009 ITF Carson, United States 50,000 Hard
Valérie Tétreault 6–4, 2–6, 4–6
Doubles: 2 (2 runner-ups)Edit
Loss 0–1 May 2015 ITF Indian Harbour Beach,
United States 50,000 Clay
Angelina Gabueva
Taylor Townsend 0–6, 1–6
Loss 0–2 Sep 2016 ITF Atlanta, United States 50,000 Hard
Taylor Townsend
Ingrid Neel
Luisa Stefani 6–4, 4–6, [5–10]
Singles performance timelineEdit
Career W–L
Grand Slam tournaments
Australian Open A A A A 1R 2R 1R 2R 1R A A A A 2–5
French Open A A A A 1R 1R 1R 1R A A A A A 0–4
Wimbledon A A A SF 2R 2R 1R 1R A A A A A 7–5
US Open A A 1R 1R 1R 1R 1R 1R 1R A A A A 0–7
Win–Loss
Year-end championship
WTA Tour Championships A A A A A A A A A A A A 0 / 0
Summer Olympics A NH NH NH A NH NH NH A NH NH NH A 0 / 0
Doha _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ A 0 / 0
Indian Wells 1R 1R A 2R 2R 1R 4R 2R 1R A 1R A A 0 / 9
Key Biscayne A A 1R A 1R 2R 4R 2R 1R A A A A 0 / 6
Charleston A A A 1R 1R 2R A 1R 1R 3R A A 2R 0 / 7
Berlin A A A A 2R A A A A A A A A 0 / 1
Rome A A A A 1R A A 1R A A A A A 0 / 2
Montreal/Toronto A A A 1R 1R A 3R A A A A A 0 / 3
Tokyo A A A A 2R A QF 1R A A A A 0 / 3
Moscow _ A A A A 2R A 2R A A A A 0 / 2
San Diego _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ A A A A 0 / 0
Zurich A A A A A 1R QF 2R A A A A 0 / 3
Titles/Finals
Overall Win–Loss
Year-end ranking 355 394 126 46 93 60 18 82 282 645 394 399
_ = tournament was either not held or not a Tier I event
1 If Fed Cup (0–1 overall) participation is included, her record stands at 213–220 overall
^ McCarvel, Nicholas. "Initial Wimbledon Run Still Drives a Former Semifinalist". New York Times. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
^ Reaching Out ESPN.com
^ Stevenson, Alexandra (September 23, 2001). "Perspective; A Player Will Always Remember the Driver of Car 61". The New York Times. Retrieved April 15, 2011.
Alexandra Stevenson at the Women's Tennis Association
Alexandra Stevenson at the International Tennis Federation
Magazine article about Alexandra Stevenson
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The aim of personalized medicine or individualized treatment is to match the right drug to the right patient and, in some cases, even to design the appropriate treatment for a patient according to his/her genotype. This report describes the latest concepts of development of personalized medicine based on pharmacogenomics, pharmacogenetics,pharmacoproteomics, and metabolomics.
Various technologies are integrated to develop personalized therapies for specific therapeutic areas described in the report. Examples of this are genotyping for drug resistance in HIV infection, personalized therapy of cancer, antipsychotics for schizophrenia, antidepressant therapy, antihypertensive therapy and personalized approach to neurological disorders. Although genotyping is not yet a part of clinically accepted routine, it is expected to have this status by the year 2020.
Ethical issues are involved in the development of personalized medicine mainly in the area of genetic testing. These along with social issues and consideration of race in the development of personalized medicine are discussed. Regulatory issues are discussed mainly with reference to the FDA guidelines on pharmacogenomics.
Increase in efficacy and safety of treatment by individualizing it has benefits in financial terms. Information is presented to show that personalized medicine will be cost-effective in healthcare systems. For the pharmaceutical companies, segmentation of the market may not leave room for conventional blockbusters but smaller and exclusive markets for personalized medicines would be profitable. Marketing opportunities for such a system are described with market estimates from 2016-2026.
Profiles of 324 companies involved in developing technologies for personalized medicines, along with 585 collaborations are included in the part II of the report. Finally the bibliography contains over 750 selected publications cited in the report.The report is supplemented by 84 tables and 39 figures.
Plunging a metal rod into an inflatable kiddie pool filled with multicoloured plastic balls may not look like the cutting edge of medical research.
But the activity, which was designed to show the challenge of isolating relatively rare stem cells – in this case, a handful of balls with magnetic strips – from a much larger pool of cells, had a serious purpose: to introduce more than 100 students and their teachers from high schools across the Toronto area to regenerative medicine.
The display was part of Regenerative Medicine: The Next Frontier, a conference on Nov. 2 co-hosted by University of Toronto's Medicine By Design and University of Toronto Schools. In addition to interactive booths highlighting research from labs at U of T and its affiliated hospitals, the day featured talks on everything from what regenerative medicine is to the complex process of turning discoveries into better treatments for diseases such as heart failure, stroke and diabetes.
Students also heard about the range of jobs available in the field, including in academic research, regulatory affairs, venture capital, cell manufacturing and communications.
Matthew Lynn, a Grade 12 student at Michael Power-St. Joseph High School in Etobicoke who plans to study life sciences at university, said the event opened his eyes to the diverse paths he could take.
"It's great to know about these new, emerging career opportunities and really take advantage of that," said Lynn.
In his 2015 State of the Union, President Obama announced the Precision Medicine Initiative — a massive research project designed to gain more insight into how we live with and treat various diseases. Last year, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) changed the initiative's name to the warmer, fuzzier, All of Us, and opened enrollment in hopes of achieving its goal of gaining anonymous health information from one million Americans.
At the moment, the number of involved citizens is far more modest, but the department is kicking things into high gear by purchasing up to 10,000 Fitbit devices for participants. The company is the first wearable maker to get the green light from the NIH for the project, due in part to its compatibility with the two major mobile operating systems and the fact that its devices last several days on a charge — making them more ideal for on-going fitness and sleep tracking.
The everyday aspect is a key to the study — figuring out the ways in which health is impacted outside of a clinical setting. In its current iteration, the study will run about a year with these devices, and that information will inform how wearables will be used in the program moving forward.


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Now COVID threatens Australia Day barbies
Australia Day barbecues are now under threat from COVID-19 shortages as supply chain problems grip the globe.
Emma Connors, Jenny Wiggins, Michael Smith, Matthew Cranston and Hans van Leeuwen
Jan 14, 2022 – 3.46pm
NSW farmer Jo Lilley is worried lamb lovers are going to be disappointed this Australia Day.
Australia's lamb lobby is betting a cheery vista of sizzling barbecues will fire up national sentiment and put the country back on the tourist map. But with supply chain woes leaving supermarket shelves empty across the country, those inspired by a new advertising campaign might struggle to find their kebabs, cutlets or chops.
On Tuesday, Ms Lilley, who runs 1000 crossbred ewes on a farm near the town of Wellington, NSW, cancelled the truck that was due to take lambs to sale yards after learning some buyers would be a no-show. They either had COVID-19, or their staff did, or the meatworks they buy for had shut down due to labour shortages.
Jo Lilley is struggling to get lamb onto kitchen tables. Nicole McGuire
She frets that her "beautiful lambs" are unable to feed families around the country. "It's not that the demand's not there – people are very happy to buy lamb, and probably everyone will be wanting a bit for Australia Day."
Similar breakdowns in supply chains around the country have hit fruit and vegetables and forced supermarkets Woolworths and Coles to limit purchases of meat.
Few sectors have been unaffected as daily omicron infections lurch into six figures. David Smith, owner of D&S Smith Haulage, a trucking group which operates out of Tumby Bay in South Australia, said he was due to move eight trailers of steel for a big company last week.
"About half an hour before we were due to load, we got a phone call: 'Don't come, we've got too many in the workforce that are testing positive or are close contacts, the whole job's been called off,'" Smith says.
Another of Smith's trucks that loaded 75 head of cattle destined for an abattoir in Victoria travelled 400 kilometres before getting a call from the abattoir: "Don't come any further, we've just shut." The truck turned around and the cattle went back to the farm.
Smith, who is also chairman of the Australian Trucking Association, estimates that about one third of the nation's truck drivers are either ill with COVID-19 or isolating.
Due to the scarcity of rapid antigen test (RAT) kits, particularly in regional areas, drivers are still having to take PCR tests and stay off work until they get the results, he says. "It's pretty horrific, really, what's going on around the country due to COVID-19. It's high cost to our industry, that's for sure."
Paul Zalai, director of the Freight & Trade Alliance, which represents importers and exporters, said the supply chain crunch had exposed the lack of planning by state governments.
"The PCR system was never going to cope with the increased demand caused by omicron cases, stringent rules around close contacts, and the demands to be tested before crossing state borders," Zalai says.
Slim pickings: a woman looks at the products in the meat section of Coles supermarket in Leichhardt, NSW, on Wednesday. Kate Geraghty
"RAT kits were not accepted in 2021, yet have become an essential part of the process in 2022. As a result, our workforce and supply chains have been left vulnerable without access to a deliverable testing regime."
A tangled global mess
Business is not just having trouble moving goods around the country. Supply routes into Australia are tangled up in a knotted global mess.
Woolworths reports that although only 5 per cent of its groceries are imported, it's being hit by disruption offshore, particularly in China, Thailand, Europe, the UK and North America.
"In some cases we are seeing international shipping schedules delayed by one to two weeks from China, south-east Asia, and Europe, while the US is facing vessel delays of two to three weeks," a Woolworths spokesman said.
Danish shipping giant Maersk wrote to customers in an advisory letter this week that "unfortunately 2022 has not started as [we] had hoped".
"The pandemic is still going strong and unfortunately, we are seeing new outbreaks impacting our ability to move your cargo. General sickness remains high as key ports in key regions are seeing new COVID-19 peaks."
Australia was a particular concern, the company says. "The network is overall challenged, due to many bottlenecks we have across ports in the region – however, omicron has worsened the situation for the Oceania network in particular, where we have seen increased waiting time of two to three days in Sydney and Melbourne as an unfortunate result of a large number of COVID-19 cases."
Shipping costs remain close to record highs and schedule reliability is the worst in living memory, according to Australia's Freight & Trade Alliance.
The FTA reports that Australia last year saw vessel delays from Asia of around 20 days. There were some signs of improvement in December but, as Maersk notes, this year is not starting well.
Worker shortages
Labour shortages due to COVID-19 are inflaming the problems that dogged much of 2021. Not all, but many, ports across Europe, Asia and the United States are choked. There are not enough trucks to take full containers away, and ships that have already lost sailing days are not waiting around to allow for empty ones to get loaded on.
The next few weeks in the lead up to the Chinese New Year are likely to bring more of the same as China plays hard ball. In recent weeks the country's zero tolerance approach has disrupted life in port cities including Ningbo, Tianjin and Shenzhen. It comes as shipping companies scramble to get goods out of China before the two-week holiday break that starts February 1.
A container shop moored at Ningbo. A COVID-19 outbreak there has further disrupted global trade. Bloomberg
While there's some hope conditions will improve in the months that follow, after two years of the COVID-19 pandemic there are no points for guessing where downside risks lie.
"We don't know how omicron is going to play out," says Jeremy Leonard, managing director of Global Industry Services at Oxford Economics in London. "We've seen case numbers start to come down in some developed countries, but the key factor is China. If we have the same kinds of port disruptions we had in 2021, then an easing in the second half of 2022 might be out the window."
China's luck may be about to run out
China, the world's biggest manufacturing centre, has been the only major country in the world to contain COVID-19 since the initial outbreak in Wuhan, but experts say it is living on borrowed time.
The spate of outbreaks in the past few weeks has alarmed authorities. While most of the reported cases have been the delta variant, community transmission of the highly contagious omicron strain has now been detected.
Experts say China will not hesitate to close down ports, airports and other transport links as it doubles down on a zero-case strategy at a time when the rest of the world is learning to live with COVID-19.
China's determination to stamp out COVID-19 has spread to the important airline and shipping hub of Hong Kong, which has the world's strictest border quarantine rules. Cathay Pacific has reduced cargo flights in and out of the city due to onerous quarantine requirements for air crew. Hong Kong is a key export market for Australian fresh food and beverages.
We thought it might be a bit tidier this year but it doesn't look like that that's going to happen.
— Greg McKillop, Southern Cross Cargo
Deborah Elms. executive director of the Asian Trade Centre in Singapore, is wary of a possible surge in infections following the Chinese New Year.
"We're expecting COVID-19 spikes everywhere that celebrates the holiday, and I would assume China won't be immune. If the virus is circulating inside of China, it will get worse. And if the Chinese government's response is increasing closures, that will be incredibly disruptive."
She says that while many firms have faced problems navigating COVID-19, China hasn't been one of them as the country's factories kept producing. That could change. "If you are a supply chain manager, something you haven't had to worry about the best part of two years might suddenly have to be added to your list of concerns," Elms says.
In Sydney, where Southern Cross Cargo concentrates on freighting goods from China to Australia for retailers and other companies, director Greg McKillop is adjusting his outlook. "We thought it might be a bit tidier this year, but it doesn't look like that that's going to happen."
After months of coaching, his customers have learnt they have to book freight weeks earlier than they used to – even if they can't be sure how much it's going to cost. "The peak season will continue though to Chinese New Year. After that, we will see some decrease in volumes, but it's not going to come back to anything like it looked before.
"We now have clients booking space without a rate. It seems unreal. But if I had to stop and check every time we had to move a booking, we would never move anything," he says. "You can blink and a booking is gone. And a price is only as good as that one booking; if it doesn't get on a boat, you're back to square one."
'A bloody mess'
Plenty of containers are not getting on, in some cases because shipping companies are cancelling trips. These are known as blank sailings – the ship is scheduled, but it doesn't go.
"No-one's job is easy at the moment, but I'd hate to be involved scheduling. A blank sailing takes out 10,000 containers," says McKillop.
"The US West Coast has improved, but it's still a bloody mess. That affects imports coming from there, and our exports going in."
Shipping containers aboard a cargo ship at the Port of Los Angeles, which has suffered severe pandemic delays. The New York Times
Supply chain problems have caught the eye of Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell, who told Congress this week that while inventory levels have been recovering, there are still backlogs in shipping.
"If you look at the Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach, record numbers of ships are still at anchor," Powell said.
Part of the problem is that one in 10 workers at these ports are unavailable for COVID-19-related reasons, according to the Pacific Maritime Association, leaving many ships unable to be unloaded. Even when ships are berthed, there is a shortage of space.
On Wednesday (Thursday AEDT), White House's National Economic Council director Brian Deese detailed what was being done to dislodge the bottlenecks. "We will take additional steps with ports across the country to set up inland locations to move products and impose new fees on empty containers that are sitting idle at our ports."
The Federal Reserve's so-called "Beige Book" of anecdotal evidence about the economy noted delays in sourcing various components. One report from the Pacific Northwest noted lead times for "some machinery equipment have increased to up to two years".
While some restaurants saw strong demand, many have had to limit hours or days of service because of lack of staffing, and "reduce menu choices because of supply chain disruptions".
The Federal Reserve of Philadelphia commented: "Many contacts noted that supply chain disruptions had worsened. About 62 per cent of the manufacturing contacts reported they expect to pay higher prices over the next six months, and slightly less than that expected to receive higher prices for their own goods."
Soaring prices everywhere
US investment bank Morgan Stanley has created its version of an index of global supply chain tensions published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and says the tension has peaked.
Still, that's unlikely to be of much comfort to consumers any time soon, with prices on the march pretty much everywhere. This week the OECD reported inflation across its 38 member countries hit a 25-year-high in November, while the World Bank is worried rising prices could derail the global recovery.
In Britain, last year's snaking queues for rationed petrol are gone, but it's hard to avoid the repercussions of hard-to-get goods at just about every turn. It's even getting difficult to buy a Billy bookcase. Ikea last week said it had jacked up prices on some items by an average of 10 per cent, but as much as 50 per cent for some bigger items such as sofas.
"Unfortunately there has been a significant increase in costs across the supply chain, including in raw materials, transport and logistics," Ikea UK told the press.
A survey by business lobby group CBI showed companies simply don't have enough product on their warehouse shelves, with stock adequacy at record lows.
Supply chains in Britain are suffering a triple whammy. There is still the COVID-related sea and air freight disruption, and soaring energy costs. Then there is the labour shortage, partly from Brexit and falling immigration more generally, and now compounded by the omicron variant driving people into self-isolation. Job vacancies are at record highs. This has sapped workforces in agriculture, trucking and hospitality, and is pushing up wages.
The government is scrambling to ease the bottlenecks, but its coffers are feeling the pinch after a very expensive pandemic of furlough payments and business support. The Treasury is in a tussle with other departments over whether there is enough cash to cut taxes or subsidies on power bills.
More immediately, the UK government is trying to get more truck drivers onto roads, after the number plummeted by a quarter during Brexit and the pandemic. It's stumping up £34.5 million ($65 million) on a year-long program of "skills bootcamps", which will provide intensive training that could get another 11,000 drivers accredited.
Although the crisis has eased in the past three to four months in some areas, the Bank of England found many businesses expecting to see the problems last into next year, as the bottlenecks unwind at different paces.
The semiconductor shortage is one that shows few signs of ending, much to the chagrin of car makers. And the Bank says small businesses, which can't control their suppliers or hold as much stock as larger companies, are likely to feel the brunt.
Still time to get ahead
Paul Scurrah, CEO of rail freight group Pacific National, says it's not too late for Australia to lift its game: "One thing is obvious, going forward – national cabinet must start learning more from the experience of other countries where new COVID-19 variant outbreaks have hit.
"There were clear signs around the world as early as the middle of last year rapid antigen tests were increasingly going to be relied on as a key frontline defensive tool to help combat COVID.
"As a country we have fared better than most, and that's a credit to our political system, but we must keep striving to stay ahead of the global pack," Scurrah says.
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Delhaize Belgium is First to Sustainable Delivery with CryoTech Temperature Controlled Solutions
Beginning in November, Delhaize Belgium, a leading supermarket operator in Belgium and part of the Delhaize Group, international food retailer, will use environmentally responsible CryoTech solutions from Thermo King. Thermo King is a manufacturer of transport temperature control solutions for a variety of mobile applications and a brand of Ingersoll Rand, in its temperature controlled trailer fleet.
Delhaize has an extensive history of delivering healthy, fresh perishable goods and is a leader in utilizing innovative and sustainable products in their retail operations. During the past several years, Delhaize has applied comprehensive sustainability plans to reduce their footprint.
As part of its sustainability commitment, Delhaize wanted refrigeration technology that would enable them to reduce their carbon footprint during transportation of products from distribution centers to stores and allow for quiet and off-peak hours deliveries. After careful evaluation, leaders at Delhaize teamed up with Gradius, the Belgian dealer of Thermo King, and use CryoTech units in selected refrigeration vehicles.
"Our goal is to make Delhaize and all its activities more sustainable," said Mark Verleye, senior vice president, Purchase and Supply Chain at Delhaize. "This strategy includes reduction of greenhouse gas emissions related to our business by 20 percent by 2020 as compared to 2008.We hope the Thermo King CryoTech technology will accompany us on the road there."
Thermo King CryoTech solutions meet Delhaize's business needs and environmental requirements with PIEK quiet operations without any compromise on performance, no HFC fluorinated refrigerant and no new carbon dioxide emissions during operation. Estimations show that during delivery, the CryoTech-equipped Delhaize trailers only use 25 percent of the total energy and generate 75 percent fewer emissions than an equal-sized domestic refrigerator.
"Thermo King's CryoTech range provides the retail industry with a much-needed refrigeration solution that offers maximum load protection while delivering high efficiency, low environmental impact and reduced noise levels," said Dwight Gibson, vice president at Thermo King in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. "Due to the performance capabilities of CryoTech, Delhaize will reduce food waste and extend the life of their transported goods."
Thermo King CryoTech Technology
Thermo King CryoTech technology uses liquid carbon dioxide (R744) in an innovative open-loop system, delivering superior refrigeration, significant reduction in emissions and improved performance over conventional diesel-powered units.
The recovered R744 used for cooling is obtained as a by-product from industrial processes that would otherwise have been released into the atmosphere. As such, there are no new carbon dioxide emissions during operation of the CryoTech system. Moreover, CryoTech technology allows Delhaize to reduce their transport refrigeration equipment carbon footprint by up to 90 percent compared to conventional refrigeration units.
CryoTech units feature faster temperature recovery compared to conventional diesel driven refrigeration and allow for up to four times faster temperature pull-downs. This is crucial where the cooling unit is often interrupted as drivers deliver goods at multiple locations. With better temperature management less of the transported perishables go to waste.
In addition, the CryoTech units are PIEK certified with noise level below 60dB(A) without compromise on performance. This makes them ideal for day or night distribution in urban areas. Trucks that deliver at off-peak hours spend less time in traffic resulting in time and money savings, lower fuel use and fewer emissions.
The scope of the project includes installation of Thermo King CT15 units on 10 normal trailers with a length of 13.6 meters and on five city trailers with 10.5 meters length. The fleet is expected to start delivering goods in Belgium in November.


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Podcast Interview with Michelle C. Thomas
Michelle C. Thomas, Esquire is a seasoned divorce lawyer and the founder of M.C. Thomas & Associates, PC, a premier divorce and family law firm serving Washington, D.C., Northern Virginia and Maryland. Michelle and her team represent a wide array of clients ranging from business owners and corporate executives to physicians, law firm partners, politicians, professional athletes and more. Her passion is helping people protect their assets and their future, and ultimately transform their lives for the better. Michelle Thomas has been repeatedly recognized as a Top Rated Family Lawyer in Washington D.C. by SuperLawyers, and recently named a Top Attorney by Bethesda Magazine. Michelle is a sought after speaker and media contributor in local and national media on issues such as effective co-parenting, parenting through the pandemic, divorce-proofing your marriage, and law firm management. She has been seen and heard on the Michael Baisden Show, Fox 5 news, News One Now with Roland Martin Radio, ESSENCE magazine, the Washington Times, The Daily Drum Show on WHUR/SiriusXM 141, and Law Talk with Ethel Mitchell on Radio One and more. Welcome, Michelle C. Thomas.
CEO Hack: Rising early, planning the day and my morning routine
CEO Nugget: (1) Don't be too hard on yourself (2) Mistakes are opportunities for growth (3) Be bold about what you want (4) Enjoy the ride
CEO Defined: Freedom and responsibility
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Do you want to learn effective ways to build relationships, generate sales and grow your business from successful entrepreneurs, startups and CEOs without listening to a long, long, long interview? If so, you've come to the right place, Gresham Harkless values your time and is ready to share with you precisely the information you are in search of. This is the I am CEO podcast.
Gresham Harkless 0:29
Hello, hello, hello, this is Gresh from the I am CEO podcast and I have a very special guest on the show today as Michelle see Thomas of MC Thomas and Associates. Michelle, it's awesome to have you on show.
Michelle C. Thomas 0:39
Thanks so much for having me. Glad to be here.
No problem. Super excited to have you on as well too. And before we jumped in, I want to read a little bit more about Michelle so you hear about all the awesome things that she's doing. And Michelle see Thomas Esquire is a seasoned divorce lawyer and the founder of MC Thomas and Associates PC, a premier divorce and family law serving Washington DC, where the Virginia and Maryland Michelle and RC represent a wide range of clients ranging from business owners and corporate executives to physicians, law firm partners, politicians, professional athletes and many more. Her passion is helping people protect their assets and their feature and ultimately transform their lives for the better. Michelle Thomas has been repeatedly recognized as a top rated family lawyer in Washington DC by Super Lawyers, and recently named a top attorney by Bethesda magazine. Congratulations. Michelle is a sought after speaker and a media contributor in local and national media on issues such as effective co parenting, parenting through the pandemic, divorce proofing your marriage, and law firm management. She's been seen and heard on the Michael Baisden show, Fox five news and news one now with Roland Martin radio, Essence magazine, The Washington Times the daily drum show on who you are series 141 and law talk with Ethel Mitchell on radio one and many, many more. Michelle, great to have you on the show. Are you ready to speak to the imcl? community?
I'm ready, let's go.
Let's do it. So to kick everything off, I wanted to hear a little bit more on how you got started. Could you take us through what I call your CEO story? And we'll let you get started with some major work.
Sure, sure. So Gresh I'm, I have to tell you, I've always sort of been entrepreneurial and business minded since I was a kid. I mean, I have my first business when I was eight years old selling candy on the bus. And I actually had a good thing going I was taking inventory and my little pink notebook. I mean, it was great. until of course the authorities found me out which were you know, the school principal, apparently, when they say not for resale on the candy bags, that means something. So I learned that but you know, at the time, I didn't know. And thankfully the statute of limitations is passed
there. Yeah.
But that's always been part of me that the concept of being independent, appealed to me, even from a really young age. And don't get me wrong, I did have wonderful parents who provided for me a nice loving home. But there was something about just I had just an internal drive and desire to be sort of a self made woman. So anyway, I developed an interest in the law, I'm sort of fighting for people. And I ended up going to you while in college, I ended up working for a family lawyer in Chapel Hill. And in addition to getting to observe the lawyer, her impact on her client, I distinctly distinctly remember thinking, so this is how you run a firm. This is how you organize it. This is how you say resources used to reduce folders and files and everything. And those were some of the other tips that I was taking away. I was taking mental notes because I believed that one day that would be me. So I continued on to law school, attended the George Washington University Law School, and started working at a pretty high end divorce and family law firm in Virginia. Great experience there. And one day one of the partners said to me, I think it was in my second year. And he said, you know, the your client generation is is unprecedented for a second year associate, you know, you should think about starting your own firm one day. Now I'm sure he thought one day would be way down the road. But that wasn't the plan. So that was sort of the first you know, whisper about doing stepping out on faith. I then before I started my own firm, I then went to another firm, not as great of an experience if I can be candid in terms of the environment, I found myself feeling unhappy and just believing that there was more, you know, I was sort of working these big, firm long hours by getting small firm pay just that typical scenario of being overworked, underpaid, and knowing that I brought value I was still generating clients and bring actually I brought some of the clients from the Virginia firm there. And then I continued on that path. So at some point I said, Okay, you know, this is a this is sort of the second whisper where you know that there's something bigger and you know, there's a there's a way that you can do this. So I then stepped out on faith. Now I will say I think didn't just jump. I planned, I prepared. I planned by I actually wrote out a business plan, I found some business planning software, wrote that out, I was working on a website in the middle of the night because I was working still very long hours. So I was, you know, working on building the infrastructure. And then it was the day to launch. And so I did, I gave plenty of notice. But I did, you know, launch and all, but I think one client came with me, which was further affirmation, and this is the right path. And just from what I had seen, and knew that I wanted to do it a different way, I wanted to do to help people in a manner that was just in alignment with my core values. And so that's, that's what I did. And, you know, the MC Thompson associates PC was birthed. And I have to tell you, Gresh, and I have never looked back. It's really bad. It's been a tremendous blessing from that point forward. And even when I launched, you know, I was intentional about where I was going. So people would try to just send me to be helpful, they would send, you know, clients from all kinds of cases. And I would say, Oh, no, I'm handling high end divorce, like, this is what I'm doing. And I was focused laser focused on carving out a niche for myself pretty early from day one. And that is certainly no, that's what we do today. So it was really just a faith walk. And I've never looked back.
Nice. So I absolutely love that. And I love how you kind of talked about those whispers. And I think so many times we hear whispers and we'll kind of shift them away, or turn up the volume on the music, so we don't hear them. But in reality, they keep coming and keep going. So I love that you, of course heard that. And then you started to take those steps towards that. But it wasn't overnight, as you mentioned, being able to kind of do those things gradually, but with an intentionality led you to what don't Awesome work you're doing now?
Absolutely. Absolutely. So I always say be intentional about your business, be intentional about your future, take it into you be proactive and take it into your own hands. Because you know, too many times we people almost kill themselves to build somebody else's dream. And they they die with, you know, their dreams die inside of them. And I just don't know that this is just not what we're doing over here. So I'm I was able to, to launch and it's been No, that's that's been it. So
yeah, absolutely love that. And then some say that the wealthiest place in the world is not, you know, bank or you know, certain countries is the graveyard because there's so many people that you said that have those dreams that have those goals that really never saw them come to fruition. So I think that's so powerful.
Absolutely. Yeah. Awesome.
So I know I touched on it a little bit when I read your bio you did as well, too. Could you take us through a little bit more on how you serve your clients. And what you feel kind of sets you apart and is your secret sauce and you feel makes you unique?
Sure. So we help families. in transition, we help families from through one of life's most difficult transitions actually, which in generally divorce, sometimes very highly contested custody cases. But we helped them bring them from usually one of the reverse moments in life through to the other side where there's, they can see you know, brightness again and sunlight. So we really so hope, if you will hope that there's a better feature of better life lies ahead and awaits them once they can get through this, this tip of this hurdle that they're in. But we believe that there's life after divorce. So we don't just sort of drop our clients and you know, get them divorced and move on. But we really want them to, you know, to be relieved to know that they don't have to worry about the future that what they fought hard for has been protected the work that we do. So we serve our clients, again, guided by the firm's core values, which are integrity, consistency, and excellence. And the reason why those values are on our website is because that is critically important. It's important to me, and I tell people if whether you're looking to hire me or work for me, if you don't really sort of share in those values. In other words, if you want us to just, you know, go after your spouse and just just for the purpose of ruining them, you know, we may not be the best fit, you know, because we want to help you get the best end result, not just secret management. Same thing with with my team and staff, it's a matter of we want to serve with integrity. We've all been in those businesses were so intelligent, you know, lie, just tell them I'm not here and that sort of thing. And that's not what we're doing over here. So no, it's on our website, I wrote it myself. It's because it's what I believe and it drives the way that we serve our clients. And we've been, like I said, from the beginning, I sort of had a goal of the niche that I wanted to serve. And while we do a lot of great work in the community as well, we do have a lot of client clients that are you know, professionals, doctors, lawyers, athletes, that sort of thing as well, but we certainly just are our primary focus is to serve with integrity, consistency and excellence.
So now I would ask you for what I call a CEO nugget. And this could be a word of wisdom or a piece of advice. It might be something you would tell a client or if you happen to have a time machine you might tell your younger business self.
Oh my goodness, what would I tell my younger self? I would Tell my younger self, don't be, don't be so hard on yourself. That's number one. Mistakes are nothing more than opportunities for growth. And t fulfill you know, it's my pain at t fulfill your greatest potential. You have to live life fearlessly, right, you have to be bold about what you want. And again, be intentional about what you want. And so being bold or fearless means that you may make some mistakes along the way. But that is okay. And that is how you grow. And it's not where you start. It's where you finish. And I would also tell myself to remember to enjoy the ride. You know, people become so fixated on the end goal that they neglect what matters most, whether it's their families, you know, relationships, children, happiness is really important, their own wellness, people neglect their physical and emotional health, just to hardly achieve these goals and goals. And they're just working too hard working all the time sometimes. But so you know, how you're experiencing your rise to success matters, and who you are on the process matters. So if racing to the end to this end goal is either turn you into someone who you're normally not, or it's causing you to compromise or neglect yourself and your well being it's time just to say, to hit pause and say, Well, wait a minute now what really matters and to re evaluate that. So I would just say, you know, you'll get there, keep pushing forward. But enjoy the ride as you go along.
Gresham Harkless 11:30
Yeah, that's so powerful. And so important not to lose yourself in your values, as we kind of talked about, you know, as well too, and who you are, as you're going to get to whatever that goal is, and wherever that that destination might be. And I think you hit the nail on the head when so many times, especially if you're driven, you want to get there at all costs, so to speak. But in reality you want, we always have to remember why we're doing what we're doing. Because the loved ones that we have are our values, our integrity, all those different things that we hold true and hold as really important to us. We don't want to lose those by getting to our destination, because truly, will it be why we were trying to strive and do all the things we were hoping to do?
Michelle C. Thomas 12:08
Correct? I mean, all the money in the world and no one to share it with, right? I mean, what's, what's that? So? Yeah, it's really important to stay focused on what your intention is, why you're doing it, and, you know, know that you'll you'll get there. There's no shortcuts. So, you know, there's no, you can't shortcut hard work. That's what it takes. But as long as you, you know, plan, prepare, and then go forward, you'll end in prosperity. That's my belief.
Yeah, absolutely believe the same thing cannot cheat the process as a whole. So now, I want to ask you my absolute favorite question, which is the definition of what it means to be a CEO. And we're hoping a different, quote unquote, CEOs on the show, so Michelle, but just being a CEO means you.
Freedom, freedom to lead to influence to serve others, on your terms and in alignment with who you are, and your core values. You know, that's if something doesn't fall, you know, in line with your core values, then then, you know, what do you have of being a CEO allows you to, you know, take what works for you, to not take it and also to focus on you know, how you are impacting, you know, those around you, the community, and also to be able to amplify your influence to the community around you. You know, I wanted to cultivate a space where we could do an influence and do family law, the way that I thought that it should be done and help people the way that I thought, and also enables me to influence even, you know, the people on my team, people that work for me, mentees, as well as those who are watching you from afar, because you know, people are always watching that. So it gives you that, that audience that you know, freedom to really be able to express and to do the work that you've been called to do on your terms and the way you want to do it, I would say also aggression, that it It also means responsibility. I believe that to whom much is given, much is required. And it's not something I take lightly. And as we were mentioning, really at the top of the program, you know, the goal is that when you leave, but we're going to leave here at some point, and when we do you want to leave empty, you want to know that you've maximized and use your gifts and talents to the best of your ability. And it's a heavy you know, being CEO is a lot of responsibility, but I wouldn't trade it for the world. Really
nice. I absolutely love that freedom and responsibility. And he gave me a visual I was just thinking about, you know, talking about entrepreneurship and business like lemons, making lemons into lemonade. We ourselves want to be those lemons that have squeezed every single part and aspect of the juice out by the time we're, we're done. And I think that when you're able to really execute, you're able to amplify and show tremendous influence as you said, so well in so many different ways. That's truly when we have been able to do that. So Michelle, truly appreciate that definition. I appreciate your time even more. What I wanted to do is pass you the mic so to speak, just to see if there's anything additional you can let our readers and listeners know and of course how best they Get a hold of you and find out about all of the awesome things that you're working on.
Sure, sure. It's about the vision, plan your vision, write it down, be intentional about your vision and believe that it will come to fruition build your team before you need it. Before you need your team. build your network before you need it. I always say that your your network equals your net worth so be intentional about who you're even spending and surrounding yourself with and you know, watch you know speak affirmations and then watch it come to fruition you know your dreams it's possible and you know, I'm living proof of that. So I'm it's there's been no looking back. Being a CEO has been great and people can reach me on we're pretty much everywhere. Our website is Thomas law DC calm or on social media, instagram, twitter, facebook at DC divorce. So you can find my personal pages on Michelle C. Thomas, or Michelle C. Thomas E sq. So we're pretty much everywhere we try to provide inspirational quotes and some motivation to our community. And so that's what we're here to do is we're here to Sir
Awesome, awesome, awesome. Well, we'll definitely have the links and information in the show notes as well too. But I appreciate you for for serving us and providing us with so much knowledge and information and wisdom as well to as much as you give to the people that you work with and be able to serve the people that you have as clients and and I truly appreciate you again and I hope you have a phenomenal rest of the day.
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Black Hills Energy franchise question rejected by voters
By Carie Canterbury | canterburyc@canoncitydailyrecord.com | Canon City Daily Record
PUBLISHED: November 3, 2020 at 8:43 p.m. | UPDATED: November 4, 2020 at 7:27 a.m.
Ballot Question 2A, which asked Cañon City voters to approve a proposed 10-year renewal of the city's franchise for Black Hills Energy, was defeated in Tuesday's election.
In the final round of ballot count updates, 5,592, or 64.66% of votes, were against the question, and 3,056, or 35.34% were in favor.
The city's last franchise with Black Hills expired in 2017.
Citizens for Affordable Power has asked residents to vote no on the renewal to provide the city with additional time to fully explore additional alternatives.
"Your lights will stay on with a 'no' vote," said Emily Tracy, the spokesperson for Citizens for Affordable Power, during an October news conference.
She said her committee has hoped that the city would have used the last three years to request information or proposals from other entities that might have saved electricity customers significant amounts of money.
"A full public exploration of options would have provided the information needed by the city council and city residents to decide whether to renew the franchise," she said. "The world of electric power is changing rapidly. This was the time to look at options for reducing our costs."
Mayor Pro Tem John Hamrick, who was appointed by the city council to negotiate with Black Hills on behalf of the city when he assumed his seat in January 2018, said during an October interview that he and former Councilwoman Kaitlin Turner met with Cañon City's Energy Future and received input via emails.
"We attended several private meetings with Cañon City's Energy Future to discuss the franchise and the situation with them," Hamrick said. "In addition, we also met with energy experts and I attended a lot of Pueblo's Energy Future meetings in Pueblo and I also met with the Pueblo mayor before their election. During this whole process, we were listening carefully to Cañon City's Energy Future and several of the things they requested we included in our negotiating stance."
For instance, rather than negotiating for a 25-year term, the city negotiated for a 10-year term, which is what Cañon City's Energy Future recommended.
"We listened carefully to everybody," Hamrick said. "The whole thing comes down to if you want to get rid of an electric company that is providing you electric service, you either have to get them to agree to sell their wires, poles and transformers to you, or you have to take them to court."
Court action would cost in the tens of millions of dollars, Hamrick said, and while it could be feasible, incurring that type of debt would not be in the best interest of the citizens.
San Isabel Electric had offered $1 billion in 2018 to purchase Black Hills' infrastructure in Colorado but was turned down, he said.
"It was our evaluation that Black Hills was not interested in selling at any cost," Hamrick said. "Making an offer and buying from them was off the table."
Tracy said Black Hills charges 50% more than the average of what dozens of public power companies around the state charge and when local citizens addressed city council about the high cost of power, the city responded that they do not control the rates.
"We fully understand that, but by continuing to do business with Black Hills, the city is saddling the community with those high costs for another 10 years," costs that Tracy has found to be 77% higher for her home here than what she pays to Xcel Energy for electricity for a home in Breckenridge.
"Yes on 2A," a grassroots citizen committee organized through the Power Cañon City committee, asked people to vote in favor of the franchise.
Steve Welchert, the campaign spokesperson, said YES on 2A protects the people and businesses of Cañon City in some important ways, including ensuring that the city can collect the Franchise Fee of $500,000 annually from Black Hills to support vital city services like police.
"Under 2A, the city will coordinate with Black Hills to begin moving electric distribution lines underground at no additional cost to the taxpayer," he said. "This will beautify the city and make electric service more reliable during severe weather events."
Under 2A, Cañon City also will share in the continuing transformation to more green power that will save customers up to $66 million during the next 15 years and increase renewable energy to 50% by 2023, he said.
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The EuroMillions jackpot was won for a third consecutive draw on Friday night as one lucky ticket holder from Spain matched all seven numbers to keep the feelgood factor going and bank €17 million (£14.9 million).
What Were The Winning EuroMillions Numbers?
The numbers drawn on Friday 8th June were 8, 19, 32, 43 and 46, with Lucky Stars 2 and 8. Over 1.7 million players picked up prizes, with big winners from all over Europe in addition to the participant who hit the jackpot. Take a look at the EuroMillions Results to see a full breakdown, including details of the winning UK Millionaire Maker codes.
Where Was The Jackpot-Winning Ticket Sold?
The winning ticket was sold at Portmetxeta, 7B, in Barakaldo in the province of Biscay. It is the 87th time the jackpot has been given away in Spain since EuroMillions started, and the third time this year.
Spain is now level with France as the most successful EuroMillions nation. The UK remains in third place with 72 jackpots, ahead of Portugal, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, Ireland and Luxembourg. Go to the EuroMillions Winners page to find out more statistics about big prizes and where they have been won.
Is It Unusual For The Jackpot To Be Won So Often?
Friday's result followed on from an Irish syndicate winning €17 million in the draw on Tuesday 5th June. Winners from Spain and Portugal had previously split a jackpot of €74.2 million (£69.9 million) on Friday 1st June.
Although EuroMillions regularly gives away huge jackpots, it is unusual for the top prize to be won three times in a row. The last time it happened was almost three years ago, from 25th September to 2nd October 2015.
There is now a chance that June 2018 could set a new record for the most number of jackpot winners in a single month. There have previously been four months - most recently September 2016 - when seven players have landed the top prize. There have already been four winners in three draws this June, so the tally just needs to be doubled in the remaining six draws of the month.
Can You Make It Four in a Row?
The jackpot has not been won four times in succession since a Tuesday draw was introduced in May 2011. It most recently happened in the draws from Friday 17th December 2010 to Friday 7th January 2011.
If you would like to try and bag the next EuroMillions jackpot on Tuesday night, you can visit any authorised retailer or join an online syndicate. Playing in a group boosts your chances of winning as you can more easily own a share of multiple entries, and it could just be that you keep the run of success going.


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For fall Masters, change comes to a tradition like no other
With no spectators in attendance, members of media and officials watch as Tiger Woods tees off on the third hole during a practice round for the Masters golf tournament Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2020, in Augusta, Ga. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
AUGUSTA, Ga. – The pimiento cheese sandwiches are still here, and so is the Hogan Bridge over Rae's Creek. So much else has changed at Augusta National this week, when the first fall Masters will be held without many of the traditions that make it a tradition unlike any other.
The azaleas have long since bloomed, the galleries will be sparse and even the green jacket presentation ceremony in Butler Cabin will look a little different for the pandemic-delayed tournament that tees off on Thursday — seven months after originally scheduled. The biggest change: With the course closed to the public, the roar of the crowds will be silenced and many of the fan-pleasing entertainment will be skipped.
"We all miss the energy of the crowds. And yes, this year is going to be very different," defending champion Tiger Woods said. "It's one that none of us have ever experienced. So we're all going to go through it together at the same time. It's going to be a very different experience, and hopefully one that I can figure it out and be able to replicate what I did last year."
With COVID-19 still raging in Georgia and spiking across much of the country, tournament organizers canceled the Par 3 Contest, usually held on the Wednesday of tournament week and a draw for the practice round galleries.
Another tradition diminished without fans: golfers trying to skip their shots across the surface of the pond in front of the 16th green. Some players gave it a go — Jon Rahm notched a hole-in-one — but many more didn't see the point without fans egging them on.
"I don't think it will quite have the same effect if (caddie Mick Donaghy) is asking me to do it," Tyrrell Hatton said. "I think we'll leave that one for next April, hoping that, obviously, we'll have fans here again."
The Masters Club Dinner hosted by the defending champion went on, but it was moved from the second-floor library to the Trophy Room downstairs to allow for more spacing.
Club Chairman Fred Ridley, who traditionally slips the green jacket over the winner's shoulders on Sunday, said the presentation in Butler Cabin will go on, but with a little more social distancing than usual. The ceremony on the putting green — which is mainly for the fans at the course — won't happen.
"We do think Butler Cabin is something that is really, not only part of the history, but emblematic of what the Masters is all about, giving the champion the green jacket," Ridley said. "So we will be in Butler Cabin. Viewers may be seeing part of that room that they haven't seen before because we are going to be more spread out, but we will have the same people in the cabin with the same basic ceremony. I think we can do it appropriately."
The ceremonial first shots by Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player will go off as usual on Thursday morning. But missing will be the throngs who rush — but not run — toward the first tee when the gates open, and line the fairway hoping to catch a glimpse of the former champions. (Also absent: the chairs and other belongings they leave in place throughout the day to hold their spots; at genteel Augusta National, no one would consider taking them.)
The change from spring to fall will also provide a different palette than the one that has been the backdrop for so many memorable shots over the years.
Out are the pink and peachy blooms of the azaleas and dogwoods; in are the autumnal gold, red and brown in the deciduous trees shedding their leaves. Bermuda grass that is usually dormant through April is mixed in among the emerald green rye, a surface players don't see at Augusta.
The stately Magnolias lining the main driveway have retained their full canopy, and the United States-shaped flower bed that mimics the Masters logo is in bright yellow bloom. But the crowd that usually lines up to take selfies in front of the iconic clubhouse is absent; behind the building, the grand live oak that typically serves as a gathering place is surrounded by fences and is off-limits.
With rain in the forecast, the lack of daylight could also come into play. Sunset on Sunday is at 5:24 p.m. — more than 2 1/2 hours earlier than it would have been on April 14.
Ridley said the tournament had already decided to abandon the rule that allows anyone within 10 strokes of the lead to make the cut. But with the shorter days, that has the added benefit of keeping the field predictable and manageable.
"It could come in handy as it relates to darkness," he said.
The fall date also messed with the Masters' spot on the sports schedule.
Instead of the year's first major, it will be the last, following the pandemic-delayed PGA Championship and U.S. Open. (The British Open was canceled.) So instead of slotting among the NCAA's March Madness and Major League Baseball's opening week, this year's tournament comes in the middle of the NFL and college football seasons.
Justin Thomas said he usually rents two houses — one for himself and one for an extended entourage that would come over for dinner or to watch the hockey playoffs but otherwise give him space to maintain his routine.
This year: No entourage (players are only allowed to bring a significant other, coach and trainer). No second house. No hockey on TV.
"In April there was quite a bit of sports on," he said. "It just kind of took my mind off of the big picture and the big moment of what was going on.
"I'll miss that, but nothing is going to stop me from still watching sports," he said. "I just won't be doing it with them."


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Appalling standards for water bore "baselines"
ABC article here
1 A "live case" example of this follows:
2 Key Implications and Outcomes that this example demonstrates include:
To attempt to manage the impacts to underground water through the unlimited take of water by unconventional gas (CSG) operations, as part of the "approvals process", the Water Act 2000 outlines the requirements for Baseline Assessments of farmer's water bores by CSG companies.
A baseline assessment is an assessment of a water bore undertaken by a resource tenure holder to obtain information about the bore, including:
the level and quality of water in the bore
the historical water use
how the bore is constructed
the type of infrastructure used to pump water from the bore.
To quantify "make good" obligations in the event of interference of a landholder's bore from CSG operations – it is critical that data for a baseline assessment be obtained accurately and with integrity.
The Qld Government's guideline for Baseline assessments—ESR/2016/1999 (formerly EM1088) provides both resource operators and bore owners with specific information on what is required for a baseline assessment.
Regrettably, this is an area where the demands and political influence of the CSG Industry has guided the development of the Water and Environmental Protection Acts and theirimplementation, administration and enforcement – thus leaving the farmer susceptible for legal bullying and financial disadvantage.
A "live case" example of this follows:
The farmer has Arrow contact them about the baseline testing for their water bores, and in good faith the farmer allows the activity to be undertaken and is given a report. The farmer understands that this is a necessary process of the Qld Government imposed CSG industry to ensure that if their bores are impacted by the CSG activity, this will form the basis of negotiations for any future "make good" arrangement for impacts on their bores .
Later the farmer, is then forced to engage with Arrow over access to their property to install pipelines and other CSG extraction infrastructure.
The farmer being required to make commercially grave and enduring decisions on a 20 business day timeline, reviews their business and operational data
In considering the water bore information provided by Arrow under the Water Act, the farmer discovers that
the aquifer attributions for their bores are incorrect;
the OGIA model predictions for impacts on their bores are inaccurately related to the incorrect bores
the bore numbers attributed to the baseline assessments are incorrect
The depth, construction and geology intersected for the farmer's bores are inaccurate.
The OGIA modelled impact predictions at each of the farmer's bores is based on incorrect and inaccurate data.
Upon discovering this, the farmer no longer has any faith in Arrow's or OGIA's technical competence. The farmer decides to get an independent third party to review the bores and charge the expense to Arrow, since it is an issue relating directly to the CSG activities in the area and Arrow's imposed engagement. The farmer also wonders if there is a problem and implications with and for the wider baseline assessment integrity and the UWIR by association.
The farmer lodges an enquiry with OGIA and the DES to address their concerns and queries, but finds after 5 weeks of 'analysis' of the Water Act, the DES advisesthat there is "no protocol in the department for the types of enquiry they have submitted" and that they (DES) would need to gather further data from Arrow to address the query.
Further, the farmer is advised by the DES "that there are no provisions in the Water Act 2000 or its legislative framework to allow a landholder to engage a third party hydrogeologist to undertake a baseline assessment" and charge the cost to the tenure holder. This leaves the farmer to pursue a resolution on their own and at theirown expense to deal with the gross incompetence of government processes and the technical capacity of Arrow Energy and OGIA. The farmer is unable to make a fully informed decision over a CSG companys' access to their property due to this total incompetence. This is despite the provisions in the Water Act for the Chief Executive of the DES to direct a CSG company to undertake a baseline assessment in accordance with the Qld Government's guidelines for baseline assessments.
Key Implications and Outcomes that this example demonstrates include:
How many other baseline assessments of landholder's bores in the Surat Basin CMA and other areas have been conducted in such a poor manner?
Why doesn't the DES have access to the bore and baseline assessment data needed to answer farmer's questions?
Why does the DES have to ask Arrow Energy to produce the baseline assessment and bore data?
All of these concerns were raised in stakeholder submissions to the 2017 review of the Water Act (Report on the review), and to the Qld Audit Office of the Queensland Government's performance in the management of CSG activities. The Qld Audit Office Report highlights the gross derelection of responsibility of the DES and the DNRM&E in effectively managing the irreversible impacts of the CSG Industry on groundwater resources in the South West Qld region.
To effectively deal with the total lack of integrity of the Qld Government's baseline assessment process, 10% of the baseline assessments undertaken by CSG companies should be field verified by an independent entity to ensure the public's trust , has this occurred and what are the results?
Given the errors outlined in the above "case study" – how can the public have faith in OGIA's ability to provide "high integrity advice" on the predicted impacts of Arrow Energy on each of the farmer's bores
Why has it taken the DES so long to identify that the Arrow Energy baseline assessment is based on incorrect bore data and hence it is not up to required standards?
The response by the Queensland bureaucracy to this "live case example" clearly demonstrates that the Qld Government, its Departments, the GasFields Commission and the OGIA are all "snug in bed" with the CSG Industry and its Peak Body – APPEA.
The Queensland public should be very alarmed at the lack of "high integrity oversight" by the Palaszczuk Government and its bureaucracy over the activities of the CSG Industry and its irreversible impacts on the State's precious groundwater resources.
Queenslanders deserve better and should demand effective action from the Palaszczuk Government – not the continual political spin and "piss & wind" that emanates from George Street and the Premier.
Image of Cropping and Priority Ag Land, overlaid with the farmers water bores listed for impact as a direct result of CSG


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Pay raises range up to 9 percent for Sherburne County elected officials
Newly elected and re-elected leaders were sworn in Tuesday and their salaries all increase in 2019 over 2018.
Pay raises range up to 9 percent for Sherburne County elected officials Newly elected and re-elected leaders were sworn in Tuesday and their salaries all increase in 2019 over 2018. Check out this story on sctimes.com: https://www.sctimes.com/story/news/2019/01/08/sherburne-county-pay-raises-elected-officials/2503195002/
Nora G. Hertel, Saint Cloud Times Published 2:00 p.m. CT Jan. 8, 2019
Sherburne County Government Center in Elk River.(Photo: Kimm Anderson, kanderson@stcloudtimes.com)Buy Photo
ELK RIVER — Most of the elected officials in Sherburne County will see salary increases this year above 5 percent.
Several county officials were sworn in Tuesday morning and started new terms following Nov. 6 elections, including Sheriff Joel Brott, County Attorney Kathleen Heaney and two county board members.
Their 2019 salaries will be higher than last year's. Their wages are also higher than corresponding wages in the smaller Benton County, where the 2019 raises did not exceed 4 percent.
County board members approved the new salaries at the Dec. 18 meeting, according to county documents and county communications media specialist David Unze.
Joel Brott, Sherburne County Sheriff (Photo: Sherburne County Sheriff's Office)
Here's how salaries increased from 2018 to 2019:
Sheriff Joel Brott: 8.6 percent from roughly $148,000 to $161,000
County Attorney Kathleen Heaney: 9.1 percent from roughly $147,000 to $161,000
Auditor-Treasurer Diane Arnold: 7 percent from about $106,000 to $113,000
Recorder Michelle Ashe: 2.5 percent from about $101,000 to $103,000
Commissioners: 5.5 percent from roughly $49,000 to $52,000
"In December of 2017, the County Board approved a policy to annually adjust their salary to match the most current countywide median full-time worker wage as established by the U.S. Census Bureau," according to the salary resolution justifying the commissioners' wage increase.
Using that rationale and the most recent data, the commissioner salary rose to $51,978.
County board members set raises for the other elected officials after reviewing the wages of their counterparts in other counties, according to board documents.
Kathleen Heaney (Photo: Kathleen Heaney)
The sheriff, county attorney, auditor-treasurer and recorder made their salary requests with the following in mind: compensation equality, their office budgets, the county budget as a whole and the impact on the levy, according to County Board documents.
Heaney, Brott and Ashe won re-election in November without opposition. Arnold faced an opponent and maintained her position.
Of the five county board members Felix Schmiesing won re-election in November without an opponent. Raeanne Danielowski is a new commissioner after defeating Paul Seefeld for an open seat.
Three commissioners are in the middle of their terms: Lisa Fobbe, Barbara Burandt and Tim Dolan.
Nora G. Hertel: 320-255-8746, nhertel@stcloudtimes.com and on Twitter @nghertel.
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DeSimone is excited to introduce Benjamin Reich, who will serve as an Associate of the firm's expanding Facades Practice. With over ten years of experience in high-rise design and project management for complex building envelopes, Mr. Reich will oversee new and ongoing facades projects within the practice.
Throughout his career, Mr. Reich has worked on numerous high-rise commercial, residential, and hospitality developments. In New York, his project experience includes the Baccarat Hotel & Residences, a 50-story tower that contains a luxury hotel, condominiums, and a major public library component; the forthcoming 35 Hudson Yards, a 72-story mixed-use development comprised of 1.1 million square feet; and 50 Hudson Yards, a rising 58-story commercial office tower comprised of 2.9 million square feet.
Mr. Reich is a registered architect in the State of New York and earned his Master of Architecture degree from Columbia University and his Bachelor of Science degree in Art and Design from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.


I'ver got an Oakley overdrive in 3u but its not quite distorting enough - especially when in Overdrive mode. Is there a way to mod the unit and get a bit more filth?
Firstly, check that both R3 and R6 are 33K. Earlier versions were built with less gain and these values were different.
Secondly, have a read, if you haven't done so already, pages 4 and 5 in the Builder's Guide.
Increasing R3 to 330K will pretty much double the maximum (and minimum) gain.
You could also try reducing R2 to 470R. You may also need to double C2 to 470nF.
But it's worth noting that the Overdrive already has massive gain so an increase in gain alone may not give you what you want. If you generally want to dirty the sound then a mid range boost (with an EQ or resonant VCF) prior to sending it to the overdrive module works well.
Thank you for the reply. I didn't check the build guide as I picked up the disto used. I'm also just getting into diy.
At the moment I'm barely getting any gain if at all. It's got a nice fuzz when in distortion mode but mostly usable when set to about 50% wet... then the overal level drops a bit.
I'll check these things out when I'm back home tomorrow. Thanks again for the quick and detailed reply.


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Conservation, Discover the North, Guides
What makes a northern river journey the best vacation on earth? It is the guides! They are the heart and soul of each Nahanni River Adventures and Canadian River Expeditions trip!
We are excited to celebrate the achievements of two members of our guide team this fall!
Both Bobbi Rose Koe and Justine Wilmot have been honoured for their commitment to the natural world and to the next generation!
Bobbi Rose Koe named as the recipient of prestigious 2021 Canadian River Heritage Award (Photo: Mark Kelly Photography) (CNW Group/Parks Canada)
Bobbi Rose has been awarded the 2021 Canadian River Heritage Award. Previously known as the Bill Mason Award, the honour recognizes the invaluable efforts of an individual Canadian to celebrate, protect, and conserve Heritage Rivers for future generations! She was nominated for her involvement in protecting the Peel Watershed and for her current venture Dinjii Zhuh Adventures. As part of the award offered by the Canadian Heritage Rivers System in partnership with the Canadian Canoe Museum she will receive a hand carved paddle!
Award Winning Guide Justine Wilmot
Justine, a Phys Ed. teacher in the off season, was selected by the Physical and Health Educators of Manitoba president Brian McMillan was awarded the Outdoor Education Award of Merit. This award is presented to an individual for their professional contribution in the promotion of outdoor education! Justine's love of rivers and wild places is infectious and we can't wait to see what she gets up to next!
We are so proud of these two and know that their passion and contributions make the world a better place!
The Peel Watershed's Seven Sacred Rivers Protected!


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Cutting requires that you remove a branch of a parent tree and force it to grow roots. Soon the branch will grow like any other tree, making branches of its own. Soon the branch will grow like any other tree, making branches of its own.... If you would like to learn how to cut large branches off a tree yourself, these tips are for you. In addition to looking out for your safety, we want to look out for the safety of your tree as well.
Most of the limbs were 20 feet off the ground and out of range of a pole saw. The rope saw although slow was able to cut through 5 inch limbs. The rope saw although slow was able to cut through 5 inch limbs.... 17/06/2018 · Yes, but get a tree pruning book or otherwise do some research to be sure the limbs are properly cut. Limbs need to be cut so that the tree can heal without leaving unsightly dead stubs. Limbs need to be cut so that the tree can heal without leaving unsightly dead stubs.
Limbs are usually cut to provide air circulation within the tree, keep the branches off the ground, remove dead limbs and get rid of disease. However if you are just trying to maintain a certain height and spacing with your tree, then it might seem like trimming your tree is sometimes a constant battle.
A tree sucker will sap the energy away from the healthier and more desirable branches on top. Chances are, you will not be pleased by the plant produced by the tree sucker. Remove them to improve the health of the plant overall.
I want to take all the fruit trees on the property and cut off some branches, and try growing them out. I know some of them if not all are dwarfs but it does not bother me with 20 acres I would rather have full size trees on their own root stock than dwarfs.
7/06/2018 · Pruning branches from mature trees takes a lot of weight off the tree and can change the shape drastically, so it is important to really think about which branches you are going to trim before you make the cut.


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Félix Asdrúbal Padrón Hernández (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, España, 13 de marzo de 1991) conocido como Asdrúbal, es un futbolista español. Juega de delantero y su equipo actual es la UD Tamaraceite de la Tercera División de España.

Trayectoria
Formado en los filiales de la UD Las Palmas, en 2013 salta al primer equipo desde Las Palmas Atllético. Tras dos temporadas en segunda División consigue el ascenso a Primera. En la temporada 2015/16 apenas participa en el equipo y en enero decide salir cedido al CD Leganés, con quienes alcanza un nuevo ascenso.

En el verano de 2016 hace la pretemporada con el club canario,que le buscó salir cedido, pero después de frustrarse a última hora su salida al Elche CF,  se quedó en la plantilla de la UD Las Palmas. El 2 de octubre debutó en Primera División en el Reino de Navarra ante Osasuna.

El 3 de enero de 2017, rescindió su contrato con la UD Las Palmas, para fichar por el Thai Port FC de la Primera División de Tailandia. En julio de 2017 dejó el club tailandés para irse al Central Coast Mariners de Australia.

El 20 de enero de 2018 se incorporó a la AD Alcorcón, firmando hasta el 30 de junio de 2020. En el mercado invernal de 2019 rescindió dicho contrato para incorporarse al Salamanca CF UDS. Al final de la temporada dejó el club de Salamanca para volver a su ciudad natal incorporándose a la UD Tamaraceite de la Tercera División de España.

Clubes
 Actualizado al último partido jugado el 4 de mayo de 2018.

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Nacidos en Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Futbolistas de la provincia de Las Palmas
Futbolistas de la Unión Deportiva Las Palmas Atlético
Futbolistas de la Unión Deportiva Las Palmas en los años 2010
Futbolistas del Club Deportivo Leganés en los años 2010
Futbolistas del Port Football Club
Futbolistas del Central Coast Mariners Football Club
Futbolistas de la Agrupación Deportiva Alcorcón
Futbolistas del Salamanca Club de Fútbol UDS
Futbolistas de la Unión Deportiva Tamaraceite

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Q: UIDeviceOrientationFaceDown in iphone I want to detect UIDeviceOrientationFaceDown. How can i do this???
Actually i want to perform some action when my iphone face is down on flat surface.
how is it possible??? plz help me to do this.
i have this code, but don't know where and how apply this code
 [[UIDevice currentDevice] beginGeneratingDeviceOrientationNotifications];

 BOOL getOrientationUpdates = [[UIDevice currentDevice] isGeneratingDeviceOrientationNotifications];
   NSLog(@"will receive orientation notifications: %@", getOrientationUpdates?@"YES":@"NO");

  [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self
                                     selector:@selector(orientationChanged:)
                                         name:UIDeviceOrientationDidChangeNotification
                                       object:nil];

if there is any tutorial then please suggest me that
Thanks in Advance and most welcome to your precious help and suggestions.

A: You can accomplish this by detecting the ProximityState of iPhone. Using the [UIDevice currentDevice] singleton, setting the proximityMonitoringEnabled to YES. you can access the proximity information through the proximityState property.
[[UIDevice currentDevice]proximityState];

iPhone has a sensor turns off the screen when you put it on your ear during a call, AFAIK that is an infrared sensor. and you can access it.
EDIT:
You can also accomplish it using the below code. UIDeviceOrientationFaceDown
The device is held parallel to the ground with the screen facing downwards. (regardless if it touched any object) if you want to know if the iPhone touched an object, detect the proximity state of device.
 [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] removeObserver:self];
 [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:@selector(detectOrientation) name:@"UIDeviceOrientationDidChangeNotification" object:nil];

    -(void)detectOrientation;{

            switch ([[UIDevice currentDevice] orientation]) {
                case UIDeviceOrientationPortrait:
                {
                    NSLog(@"portrait");
                }
                    break;
                case UIDeviceOrientationPortraitUpsideDown:
                {
                    NSLog(@"portraitUpSideDown");
                }
                    break;
                case UIDeviceOrientationLandscapeLeft:
                {
                    NSLog(@"landscapeLeft");
                }
                    break;
                case UIDeviceOrientationLandscapeRight:
                {
                    NSLog(@"landscapeRight");
                }
                break;
               case UIDeviceOrientationFaceDown:
               {
                    NSLog(@"facedown!!");
                }
                 break;

            default:
                break;
        }
    }

}

EDIT: to answer the question in comment. add this line in your viewDidLoad
[UIDevice currentDevice].proximityMonitoringEnabled = YES;
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] removeObserver:self];
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:@selector(handleProximityChangeNotification:) name:UIDeviceProximityStateDidChangeNotification object:nil];

then write a method
-(void)handleProximityChangeNotification{
     if([[UIDevice currentDevice]proximityState]){
        NSLog(@"...");
    }
}

A: You can use the z value from accelerometer sensor (-1 <= z <= 1). If your device is facing down, the z value will be in 0 < z <=1 (0 when it's facing parallel to the ground, 1 when it's facing perpendicular to the ground). To get this data you can use CMMotionManager
 #import <CoreMotion/CoreMotion.h>

 CMMotionManager *cm=[[CMMotionManager alloc] init];
 cm.deviceMotionUpdateInterval=0.2f;
 [cm startDeviceMotionUpdatesToQueue:[NSOperationQueue mainQueue]
                            withHandler:^(CMDeviceMotion *data, NSError *error) {
                              if(data.gravity.z>=0.3f)//

                              {
                                 //DO something
                              }

  }];

Don't forget to add CoreMotion framework to your project.

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