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Meletis Fikioris has been Chairman of Corinth Pipeworks Board of Directors since July 2017. He has been a member of the Athens Bar Association since 1973 and has served as a legal advisor for a number of companies, participating on their Board of Directors.
Mr. Ioannis Panagiotopoulos has been Vice-Chairman of CORINTH PIPEWORKS S.A. Board of Directors since July 2017. He has graduated from the Athens University of Economic and Business and holds an MBA from the Training Institute of Business Administration Department, AUEB. He has been working in VIOHALCO since 1968 in the Finance Division of the Group's companies. Since 2005 he has been Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of "ERLIKON WIRE PROCESSING SA", member of the Board of Directors of "SOVEL HELLENIC STEEL PROCESSING COMPANY SA" as well as a member of other Viohalco companies.
Adamantios Vassilakis is a graduate of Political and Diplomatic Studies at Brussels Free University, as well as of the Chios Commercial School. In his long career in the diplomatic corps, he has served in many countries (indicatively, among others, Yugoslavia, the former USSR and the US) and has held high ranking positions in the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 2002, he was named Permanent Representative of Greece to the United Nations, while in the same year, he was appointed chief negotiator representing Greece in discussions over FYROM's disputed name. In 2005, he was promoted to Ambassador and represented Greece during the Country's term on the UN Security Council in New York (2005 - 2006). Within the framework of the Security Council, he participated in missions to Central Africa (Congo, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, and Tanzania), Sudan and Afghanistan. He was also Chairman of the UN Security Council Sanction Committee on the Ivory Coast and Sudan, as well as of the Security Council's Informal Working Group on improving sanction effectiveness. In 2007, he was appointed National Representative of Greece in the negotiations held under the auspices of the UN to find a permanent name for FYROM. He has been decorated with the Grand Cross of the Order of the Phoenix.
Ioannis Stavropoulos is a graduate of the University of Piraeus and has been working at Viohalco since 1972. He has held the position of Financial Director at Vitruvit S.A. (1978) and the position of General Manager at Hellenic Cables of Mesologhi S.A. (1989), Kem S.A. (1998) and at Sidenor S.A. (1999). He is an executive member of Hellenic Cables S.A. and a member of the Board of Directors of other Viohalco companies.
Nikolaos Galetas is an independent member of Corinth Pipeworks Board of Directors. He is a Theology graduate of the University of Athens and has studied at the Vienna University of Technology (Technische Hochshule Wien). He has earned an Electrical Engineering degree from the National Technical University of Athens. During his lengthy career, Mr Galetas has served on the boards of the Hellenic Development Bank (ETVA), the Planning and Development Company (EPA) and the National Investment Bank for Industrial Development (ETEVA), where he also served as General Manager. Mr Galetas has also served as a management consultant for ETEVA and EFG EUROBANK PROPERTIES S.A. He has been a board member of a number of companies, including EFG EUROBANK PROPERTIES REIC and ERT-Greek Radio and Television (Vice-Chairman) and several ETEVA Group subsidiaries where he served as Chairman of the Board of Directors during his many years with the Group. In addition, during the period 1990-92, he was advisor to the Ministers of the Interior, Agriculture and Coordination.
Andreas Kyriazis has served on the Company's Board since 2005. Mr. Kyriazis is a graduate of the Chemistry, Physics & Mathematics Faculty of Athens University. He has served as Chairman of the Central Union of Greek Chambers, the Union of Balkan Chambers, the Athens Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Hellenic Productivity Centre, the Greek Society for Business Administration and the Wood Processing Association. He was also Vice-Chairman of the Association of European Chambers of Commerce and Industry and the Secretary General of the Association of Greek Chemists.
Angelos Syrigos (Athens, 1966), is associate Professor of International Law and Foreign Policy at the Department of International and European Studies at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens.
He is a graduate of the Law Schools of the National University of Athens and of the University of Bristol, England where in 1994 he was conferred the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in the field of public international law.
Between August 2012 and May 2014 he has served as Secretary General of Population and Social Cohesion of the Greek Ministry of Interior.
He has published three books and several articles on Greek-Turkish relations, the law of the Sea, the Cyprus issue, the Balkans, minorities and migration.


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Adobe writes FreeHand obituary
Adobe Systems ends updates for the software, meaning no Vista or Intel Mac support, but offers Illustrator upgrade deal.
Stephen Shankland
It should come as no surprise, but Adobe Systems has officially declared an end to development of FreeHand illustration software and is trying to coax users to its rival Illustrator package.
"After a long and storied career, Adobe (nee Altsys, Aldus and Macromedia) FreeHand has reached the end of its development road," John Nack, senior product manager of Adobe's Photoshop software, said on his blog on Wednesday. "Adobe does not plan to develop and deliver any new feature-based releases of FreeHand, or to deliver patches or updates for new operating systems or hardware."
That means, among other things, that there will be no version for Windows Vista or for Intel-based Apple computers, according to an Adobe frequently asked questions document (PDF) on the move.
Macromedia released the last version of the software, FreeHand MX, in 2003. The writing was on the wall for the product after Adobe acquired Macromedia in 2005, given Adobe's preference for its own Illustrator product and Illustrator's integration with other software in Adobe's Creative Suite.
Adobe is trying to encourage upgrades to the CS3 version of Illustrator; registered users can pay $199, about a third of its regular $599 price tag.
Freehand has a long history, at least in personal computing terms. The first version was released in 1988, according to Ian Kelleigh's FreeHand Source Web site. It was a 429KB application that required 750KB of memory to run. The 11th version, MX, was a 10.3MB application that needed 131MB of memory.
Adobe is working to make the switch easier for FreeHand users. According to the FAQ, "Illustrator CS3 includes the new ability to import FreeHand 10 and MX files directly and with higher fidelity than in previous releases."
Adobe hasn't been racing to support Vista even for its latest products. However, the company on Monday announced work on a new driver to use PostScript printers with Microsoft's latest operating system. Adobe expects to ship the driver in July to printer manufacturers that can offer the software to customers.
Windows Vista includes a PostScript driver, but Adobe's "delivers higher quality print output for Office files with transparency and gradients than printing the same files using the standard PostScript driver bundled with Windows," Adobe said.
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WC: SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND LOIS LANE #24
Tom Brevoort Windfall Comics October 31, 2021
Just as with Jimmy Olsen, whose title we covered here a few weeks ago, so too was Lois Lane popular enough throughout the 1960s to headline a series all her won. This is thinks in no small part, I expect, to the portrayal of actress Noel Neill in the ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN television series, which went into syndication at the end of the 1950s and was broadcast regularly throughout the next three decades. I know that I watched it religiously as a kid. This was one of a number of issues of Lois' self-titled comic that I got in my Windfall Comics purchase, paying just over three times the cover price for it. Like the rest of the Superman family of titles, it was in a good period when this issue came out. Editor Mort Weisinger had brought a new life and energy to the Man of Steel's universe, and he slowly crafted a complex mythology around the last Son of Krypton, one that was expansive enough to engage the imagination, yet simple enough and based on such fundamental emotional touch-points that even the youngest readers could understand them. In Mort's world, Lois was still a globe-trotting reporter, but she was cast a bit more in the image of Lucille Ball, a daffy, lovelorn she-child whose curiosity and meddlesomeness would get her into ridiculous scrapes and situations that her would-be boyfriend Superman would have to get her out of.
As was routine for the Superman books during this period, this issue of LOIS LANE contains three shorter stories. The author of this opening tale remains a mystery–there are a number of candidates who might have been responsible for it–but the artwork was by the always-entertaining Kurt Schaffenberger. Having worked on the original Captain Marvel for the now-defunct Fawcett, Schaffenberger brought eh same light touch and open style to the Man of Steel's adventures. His depiction of Lois in particular became definitive during this time, and he was occasionally called upon to redo the faces of Lois and her perennial rival Lana Lang in other Superman titles (even those penciled by Curt Swan, who defined the look of the Metropolis Marvel at this same time.) There was always something playful about his work, and this proved to be a double-edged sword over time. While he was excellently cast on stories that were a bit wacky or bizarre and he exceled at exuding a certain playfulness in ihs art, he wasn't such a good fit when the subject matter of most comic books grew increasingly grim and serious and often joyless.
In this opening story, Lois goes undercover when she learns about a criminal's plan to smuggle in some kryptonite in order to trap and kill Superman. But her disguised is uncovered and instead she winds up as bait for the Man of Tomorrow. And Superman does fall into the trap–but suddenly, Lois bursts her bonds as though possessing super-powers herself. Superman is astonished by this turn of events, and he confirms that she isn't Supergirl in disguise, nor that he gave her these powers through a serum or similar means. The answer is convoluted: this isn't Lois at all, but rather Sylvia, the wife of Van-Zee from the Bottle City of Kandor, who is Lois' identical twin. Having seen that Lois was in danger, the pait had used an exchange ray to swap out Sylvia for Lois–Van-Zee had used a special ray to give Sylvia super-powers even though she was a regular human being earlier (the ray won't work on the real Lois' blood type, fortunately.) And so, the day is saved. Silly and lightweight, but a little mystery that turns upon the details of this larger mythology that Mort and his creators were crafting. This last page contains a bottom strap that notes that the DC books are still 10 cents each–a deliberate jab at rival publisher Dell, who had been the leader in the field until they were forced by economics to raise their prices, and they went up to 15 cents, which killed their sales. The DC books were similarly in for a price increase shortly after this issue went on sale.
Next up was a single page filler humor strip by Henry Boltinoff, the brother of longtime DC editor Murray Boltinoff. henry did hundreds of these filler strips over the years. The bottom third also included another slate of Coming Super-Attractions, the house ads that Mort would create for his various Superman titles. As was typical for these ads, the copy is simple yet provocative–you could see exactly what Mort was selling in each instance: tragedy in SUPERMAN, horror and terror in JIMMY OLSEN, and spectacle in SUPERBOY. Even without much art, these little ads did a great job of whetting the appetites of prospective buyers.
The second story in this issue was also illustrated by Kurt Schaffenberger, and was in fact the subject of the cover illustration. In this instance, we know that it was written by Robert Bernstein, who did a lot of work for both DC and other publishers at this time. (He wrote a number of the earliest Iron Man stories for Marvel, for example.) The story revolves around a television program that mirrors the wave of early reality-based programs such as Candid Camera and This Is Your Life–Mort was always fascinated by such programs, it seems, or else thought their gimmicks would make teh basis for some good stories. In this instance, the show is based on the Art Linkletter movie "People Are Funny"–and the premise is that there's a Univac computer that can determine a perfect romantic match for any contestant. Lois's sister Lucy, concerned because of Lois' obsession with Superman, enters Lois' name with the show, and she is of course chosen to participate.
The cover makes it appear as though Lois will be matched up with Clark Kent, a situation whose irony would have been recognized by everyone. This is where the story proper takes a twist, though, as Lois' match isn't Clark at all, but rather Roger Warner, a sportsman who simply happens to look a lot like Kent. And he's pretty great–he's courageous, fit, intelligent, compassionate, and actually interested in her. And so, Lois begins to fall for her new beau. Even Superman approves of this guy. But of course, there's a catch, and it turns up on the very last page. As Superman darts away at super-speed, his backlash succeeds in blowing Roger's toupee off–the wealthy adventurer is bald, a crime that outweighs all of his other good qualities. Mortified that Lois now knows his shameful secret (which, let's face it, she woudl have found out about were they to actually get married), Roger dashes off. Lois mutters that his baldness wouldn't have mattered to her, though her thoughts follow that up with, "Or would it?" Lois was nothing if not shallow. Baldness was a recurring motif in the Superman titles, beginning of course with Lex Luthor but also turning up in stories such as this one. Mort Weisinger, of course, suffered from male pattern baldness, so what this says about ihs own self-reflection is relatively complex.
Next came the letters page of the issue: Mort had instituted these throughout his titles in the late 1950s, and most of his correspondents were clearly pretty young. Consequently, he pitched his answers at that level, albeit with a streak of nastiness that occasionally surfaced. He also maintained his anonymity behind the generic signature Editor. Again, though, this was another tool through which Mort engaged with his audience and found out more about what kinds of stories they wanted to read.
There's also this great full-page ad for one of the SHOWCASE try-out appearances of Aquaman, a character that Mort himself had originated almost twenty years before. He'd hung on through the super hero downturn of the 1950s, becoming one of teh very few to be in continuous publication during that time. But he was a perennial back-pager, his stories limited to only a few short pages. Going book-length in SHOWCASE represented, if you will, a sea change for the character, and he earned his own regular title shortly thereafter. Being featured regularly in JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA no doubt helped with tis as well.
The final story in this issue was also written by Robert Bernstein, but this one was drawn by John Forte, who did a bunch of work throughout Mort's office over the years. His work was competent but a bit stiff and lifeless, and I'll admit I've never truly warmed to it. He would go on to do a long stretch of the earliest stories to feature the Legion of Super-Heroes in ADVENTURE COMICS–not a great fit for that futuristic series, but he rendered it in a straightforward manner. In this adventure, editor Perry White sends Lois off to the nation of Pahla, where a revolution is brewing (one wonders whether Perry was simply trying to get rid of his pain-in-the-neck reporter once and for all.) It's a pretty racist story when you come right down to it–while the Pahlans are depicted with only slightly darker skin, they're also shown to be a bit backwards and barbaric. They're coded as being a Muslim nation, though the word is never itself said out loud. It's the sort of treatment that was typical at the time.
While Lois is there incognito, there is an assassination attempt on the King, and Lois is eventually suspected as the would-be killer. The central portion of the story is a series of cat-and-mouse games as Lois attempts to elude the authorities who are convinced she did the crime. And indeed, the evidence all seems to point to her: the attempted murderer had her same voice and fingerprints. Eventually, Lois is captured, and has no way of proving her innocence. But she's able to send a last cable to Clark Kent before her execution, which results in Superman showing up just in time to save her life. And in a parallel to the People Are Whacky story, the killer turns out to be a Bizarro Lois Lane–but one that speaks normally, and so was exiled from teh Bizarro planet. She attempted to kill the king in order to attract Superman's attention, as like the real Lois, she is in love with him. Not the best thought out plan in the world, but hey, what do you want from a Bizarro? brought face to face with the true Lois, Bizarro Lois realizes just how hideous her own features are, and she steps backwards off of the cliff to her death (there's a convenient kryptonite meteor at the bottom of the drop preventing Superman from saving her–the sort of abstract coincidence that these stories reveled in.)
Henry Boltinoff
Kurt Schaffenberger
Mort Weisinger
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Boldlygo says:
That cover is just plain hilarious! Great work by Swan.
Odkin says:
Tom, after reading about 10 of your posts in a row, I IMPLORE you. Turn on spellcheck. In particular please do something about the constant use of "teh" in place of "the". Please.


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Strictly Ballroom The Musical - Theatre Review
May 23, 2017 / Angela Guardiani
Baz Luhrmann is one of those directors whose aesthetic is immediately recognizable – and not to everyone's taste. Personally, I love the technicolour glossiness of a Luhrmann film. I love the staginess taken to extravagant lengths, the lush visuals and golden light, the swooning romance and sneering villians. Clothes are never just clothes, but costumes. Places have a feeling of unreality about them. In Luhrmann's world, everything is fake, but that doesn't mean it's not true. He makes movies where we know everything is artificial. Everything has been designed, chosen with care, for the single purpose of showing us an emotional truth. In other words, the more unreal it seems, the more it resonates in the heart.
When it comes to competitive ballroom dancing, think of the athletically choreographed steps, the illusion netting, the million-watt smiles. A good dancer never lets the audience see her bleeding feet or his bad knees. Yet the grace and fluidity they bring to the stage is breathtaking. Their bodies tell a story and become part of the theatrical experience. In fact, the only thing I can think of that's more stagy than competitive dance is a musical. So the creation of a stage musical using Baz Luhrmann's 1992 film Strictly Ballroom as source material is a pretty natural progression. In fact, Luhrmann adapted the movie from his own stage play – a rare example of a story going from stage to screen to stage again. The show has its North American premiere run right now in Toronto.
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Negotiation is a beautiful thing. You know why? Because it makes everyone involved happier. The best type of negotiation works to find the absolute best results for each party. This type of negotiation is called Win-Win, and can be applied in almost every situation. I've found that becoming a skilled and practiced negotiator will make me and the people around me, like my friends, family, business partner, and employees, more happy.
Child/Parent: Dealing with day to day conflict.
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First & Most Importantly: Always try to negotiate, you may be able to get a better deal for both parties. Remember that not negotiating is a conscious choice and has an opportunity cost too.
Set Your Bar: Before you enter the negotiation conversation, commit yourself to your "absolute minimum price." This is the lowest you'll go before selling, or the highest you'll go before buying. Stick to this commitment and press "pause" if you can't get within this range. Tell the other party you'll have to think about it and step away to re-evaluate the deal not in their presence.
TMI: Don't let the other party know your "absolute minimum price." Keep this information to yourself and don't share it.
Communicate: Tell the other party what is important to you. That way, they know where your values lie and will be more apt to giving you those things.
Speak First: Be the first party to offer a price/suggestion/anchor point for the negotiation. If you speak first, you set the standard and more often than not, will hold the advantage. Make your "initial offer" no matter how absurd it is, but always make your offer politely.
If you aren't the first to offer a deal, make sure to respond to theirs promptly and tactfully. For example, if you we're going to propose $150 and they say $5000. Be very polite and say, "I was going to initially offer you more in the $150 range, but lets keep talking." Don't let a huge discrepancy in value cause you to abandon all hope, you never know how flexible a person can be.
Think Outside the Box: Be willing to negotiate on terms other than cash. If price is an issue (which most of the time it is) try to incorporate other things that are important to you into the deal. A few ideas for consideration: timing, quality, what is delivered, and what type of support is attached. If your negotiating with friends, how about homemade cookies, dinner, a backrub, or as my friend Nikill says, "You owe me something small." He'll hold his fingers up, laugh and say "Just something small."
Tread Lightly: Some deals are more important than others, be more sensitive around larger or emotionally charged deals. It is so much easier for people to walk away faster, or have a strong intuitive reaction telling them to back off when there is a lot is at stake.
Check Yourself: Don't get emotional. Stay calm, pleasant, and overall happy. This will help you stay confident.
Win-Win Negotiation is a powerful tool that can benefit both sides of any deal. Strive to find that "sweet spot" and everyone will walk away happy. As a final note, negotiation is just like anything else - practice makes perfect. Have fun role playing and practice negotiating with friends and family first. You'll gain confidence and soon be ready to negotiate in other situations where more is at stake.


No matter whether we were driving around the Missouri countryside third-wheeling Ego and Meredith's love affair, burning through a box of tissues at Yondu's funeral or donning our best game-face to battle an inter-dimensional space creature, there was always one commonality in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2.: a kickass soundtrack that was guaranteed to make us escape a little further, cry a little harder and fist pump a little stronger.
Threading the scenes together like a patchwork quilt, the second mixtape Meredith Quill made for her son Peter (aka Star-Lord) takes us on a musical journey through the cosmos and allows us to experience the comparable highs and lows as the titular team of superheroes – but will James Gunn be able to strike the same chord again?
Heading into Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, we can expect the song selection to widely expand and diversify, as Peter has acquired a Zune – a portable music player that all Earth-people are apparently listening to nowadays – with over 300 songs in its library, giving him the opportunity to potentially explore a different era of music while also paying homage to his late mother's commendable tastes.
Sadly we won't discover which tracks will be blasting out of Peter's Zune for a few years yet, but here are some of our song suggestions for the next instalment of Marvel's rip-roaring space adventure.
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Guildford to Farnham walk
A river valley, gentle pastures, Watts Gallery, woods, remote heathlands and heather covered moors.
Surrey North Downs Way North Downs Surrey Hills Easy Walk
Adventures on the Surrey Heathlands
Guildford to Farnham: 22.2km (13.8 miles)
Guildford Circular: 13.4km (8.3 miles)
Farnham Circular: 16.2km (10.1 miles
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Think Surrey, and you probably think of pretty villages, gentle green pastures, and the country houses of retired stockbrokers. The first part of this walk conforms to that image, but the second, after lunch, takes you into the suprisingly wild and uninhabited Surrey heathlands - a vast area of woods and heather-covered moors which is particularly colourful from late July to early September when the heather is in bloom.
The lack of habitation in this area means that it was either taken over by the army for exercises or bypassed by the railways, and so to visit it requires a long walk: the afternoon of this walk is 13.3 km (8.3 miles): this is thus a walk for a long spring or summer day. It is quite a good idea to bring some refreshments with you to break up the afternoon: otherwise, there are late tea options in Farnham.
Walk Options
a) Guildford Circular: This walk does not go near the heaths, but it makes a pleasant shorter outing from Guildford, with the interesting Watts Gallery and Chapel or Loseley Park as its focus. This route is 13.4km (8.3 miles).
It is also possible to use part of the Guildford Circular route to stay on the North Downs Way as far as Watts Gallery on the main walk. This is less scenic than the recommended route via Loseley Park but more straightforward, 500 metres shorter, and less muddy in winter.
b) Alternative start via the Hog's Back: This is an alternative start to either the main walk or the Guildford circular walk via the dramatic ridge of the Hog's Back (the small part of it not occupied by the A31 dual carriageway), with magnificent views both to the north and south. It is 1km (0.6 miles) shorter than the main walk route, but more strenuous.
c) Farnham Circular: This option follows the morning of the Farnham to Godalming walk on this website as far as its lunch pub, the Donkey in Charleshill, and then uses the latter part of this walk to return to Farnham. This creates a nicely contrasted walk, following a pretty valley in the morning and across wooded heathland in the afternoon. In all this walk is 16.2km (10.1 miles).
Four trains an hour run between Waterloo and Guildford, taking 38 minutes. Be sure to get the fast trains via Woking not the slower stopping services via Effingham Junction or Clandon.
Take the train nearest to 9.40am from Waterloo to get to lunch at the right time. Buy a day return to Farnham, which is also valid for the outward journey via Guildford.
If doing the Guildford Circular walk take the train nearest to 10.40am.
From Farnham two trains an hour run back to Waterloo (one an hour on Sundays: journey time 51-59 minutes).
Watts Gallery tea shop in Compton (01483 813590), located 6.2km (3.8 miles) into the main walk and 5.7km (3.5 miles) into the Guildford Circular, serves a range of light meals (including vegan options) from 12-4pm daily, with sandwiches and cakes served 10.30am to 5pm.
The Good Intent in Puttenham, (01483 810387), located 8.9km (5.6 miles) into the main walk, is the suggested lunch pub for that walk. It was up for sale in February 2019 but was still trading, with a simple menu of pub classics and a small garden, well-hidden out the back. It does not do food on Mondays (though is open 12-3pm for drinks), but serves food Tuesday to Friday 12-2pm, Saturday 12-2.30pm and Sunday to 3pm. Drinks are also served all afternoon at weekends.
Just before the Good Intent, the Jolly Farmer, a Harvester chain pub, was being refurbished during February 2019, but was apparently due to re-open, possibly under a different name or brand.
The Withies Inn in Compton (01483 421158 www.thewithiesinn.com) is an excellent and friendly rural pub serving bar food and more formal meals, with both inside and outside seating. Situated 7.2km (4.5 miles) into the Guildford circular walk, it is the suggested lunch stop for this walk. It serves food 12-2pm in its restaurant daily and from 12-2.30pm Monday to Thursday and 12-3pm Friday to Sunday in its bar. It is open all afternoon for drinks Wednesday to Saturday, but closed 3pm to 6pm Monday and Tuesday and after 4pm on Sundays.
Picnics: On the main walk, the best place is on Puttenham Common at the place indicated in paragraph 88 on page 8 in the walk directions. Loseley Park, early in the main walk, also has a picnic area by its lake (see paragraph 23 on page 4 - also paragraph 150 on page 11-12 of the Guildford circular). On the Farnham circular walk a possible picnic spot is the green in the village of Tisbury.
If you want a takeaway tea for the train, a petrol station just before the end of the walk has a Wild Bean Cafe in its shop, a proper barista outlet serving coffee, tea and an excellent selection of pastries and savoury snacks. There is even a picnic area around the back of the petrol station where you could consume your purchases, though this is by the busy A31.
The Mulberry, the pub by Farnham station serves tea and coffee well into the evening, but it becomes a party and sports pub on Friday and Saturday evenings. Quieter pub options nearby include The Lamb and William Cobbett on the other side of the A31. Or if you cross the main road and carry on down the main road on the other side into central Farnham the Bush Hotel is a potential tea option, and the town's high street has other pubs.
On the Guildford Circular walk Loseley Park (01483 304 440 www.loseleypark.co.uk), 8.3km (5.1 miles) into the walk, has an open air Mulberry Tea Lawn. You have to pay a £7.50 admission charge (2019 prices) to the gardens at this stately home to access it, however, and the gardens (well worth a visit) are only open (2019) Sunday to Thursday 11am to 5pm in May, June and July. Otherwise Guildford has lots of options, but a surprisingly nice choice is the self-service restaurant of Debenhams, which has an excellent selection of cakes, a beautiful view overlooking the River Wey and an outside terrace. It is open during store hours, which are till 6pm Monday to Saturday and 5pm Sunday. For other options, explore up the town's picturesque high street, or as a backstop, there is a decent-sized and quite pleasant Costa Coffee at Guildford station that opens well into the evening.
Still a family residence, Loseley Park (01483 304440) was built in 1562 by Sir William More and is considered a fine example of Elizabethan architecture. Its attractions include paintings, tapestries and panelling from Henry VIII's now lost Nonesuch Palace, and a beautifully restored walled garden. The famous Loseley Park ice cream brand also originated here, and is on sale in the house's shop, though the product is now manufactured elsewhere. The house is open (2019) Sunday to Thursday 11am to 5pm in May, June and July.
Watts Gallery (01483 810235) exhibits the paintings of 19th century painter and sculptor George Frederick Watts, who has - somewhat fancifully - been described as "England's Michelangelo". Contemporary with the pre-Raphaelites, the paintings have a similar character to them. It is open Tuesday to Sunday and bank holidays from 11am to 5pm March to October and 10am to 4pm November to February
Watts Chapel was the project of Watts' second wife, Mary, who designed this Celtic, Byzantine art nouveau masterpiece without architectural or building experience. Much of the work was done by local villagers. Every interior surface is covered with what Mrs Watts called "glorified wallpaper" - angels and seraphs made out of gesso, a material which her husband used when rheumatism meant he could no longer handle wet clay. The painter himself is buried in the cloister behind the chapel
The Surrey Heaths are not as natural as they look, nor as extensive as they used to be. Based on the sandy Greensand soils, they are in fact an ancient man-made habitat created by rural communities over many generations of grazing and wood cutting. With the decline in the grazing of animals on the heaths in the last century, the woodland has gradually started to re-occupy the heaths. Puttenham Common is now actively managed to preserve its unique habitat for plants and animals.
An earlier version of this walk was published in Time Out Country Walks near London volume 2. We now recommend using this online version as the book is now dated.
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Фиат G.80 је италијански школски авион на млазни погон кога је развио Фиат.

Пројектовање и развој

Фиат G.80-1B је био први авион на млазни погон развијен у Италији. Прототип је полетео 9. децембра 1951. После прве етапе летачких испитивања на аеродрому Фијат у Торину, летелица је пребачена на даља испитивања у ваздухопловну базу Амендола, где се 9. маја 1952. срушио.

Инжењер Ђузепе Габријели је наставио развој прототипа G.80-2B са измењеним пројектом као G.80-3B, који је полетео 19. марта 1953. Све ове прототипове покретао је турбомлазни мотор de Havilland Goblin 35.

Након ових испитивања дефинитивно је утврђено да инсталисани мотор нема довољно снага за овај авион па се приступило изради прототипа  G.82 са мотором Rolls-Royce Nene 2/21 turbojet, потиска 22 kN, који је први пут полетео 23.05.1954. Овај авион је испунио очекивања и пројектаната и стручњака из Ратног ваздухопловства. У паралелном тестирању G.82 се показао бољи од Локида Т-33. Нажалост Фиат није могао да добије трку у комерцијалним условима које је понудио Локид.

Технички опис
Фиат G.80 је једномоторни авион, нискокрилац, двосед, са стајним органима типа трицикл, са бочним уводницима ваздуха и са класичним механичким командама лета.

Труп авиона је потпуно металне конструкције углавном од дуралуминијума са оплатом од алуминијумског лима причвршћене закивцима са упуштеном главом. У трупу су смештена два кокпита у тандем распореду са удвојеним командама. Оба кокпита су покривена провидним поклопцем у облику капље. Мотор је смештен у репу авиона а у трупу резервоари са горивом.

Погонска група у авион је угрђен турбомлазни мотор de Havilland Goblin 35 са потиском од 15,57 kN. Код прототипа G.82 уграђен је мотор Rolls-Royce Nene 2/21 turbojet, потиска 22 kN.

Крило је управно на труп авиона, трапезног облика без угла диедра и стреле. Носаећа конструкција и оплата су од дуралуминијума спајане закивцима. Кроз крила су провучене све неопходне инсталације за нормално функционисање авиона на земљи и у лету.

Репне површине су класичне: један вертикални стабилизатор са кормилом правца, два хоризонтална стабилизатора са кормилима дубине. Сви елементи репа су металне конструкције са облогом од ал-лима.

Стајни трап је типа трицикл: испод кљуна авиона се налази једна стајна нога са точком који се у току лета увлачио у труп авиона. Испод крила су се налазиле две главне ноге стајног трапа које су се у току лета увлачиле према трупу авиона. Сви точкови су били опремљени кочницама а стајне ноге уљним амортизерима. Гуме на точковима су биле нископритисне.

Наоружање
Авион је наоружан следећим оружјем: 2 х Colt-Browning M3 фиксна митраљеза кал. 12,7mm у трупу, 2 х 230kg бомби и 8 x HVAR ракета.

Верзије
 G.80-1B - прототип (направљено 2 ком.)
 G.80-3B - претсеријска верзија (направљено 3 ком.)
 G.81 - производна верзија G.80 (није направљена, развој је отказан у корист G.82)
 G.82 - прототипови за НАТО такмичење (направљено 2 ком.) и четири произведена
 G.84 - верзија са мотором Аллисон Ј35 (није направљена)

Оперативно коришћење
Није дошло до оперативне употребе ових авиона. Они су само као прототипови опитовани у фабричком и државном испитивању.

Иако је у оперативном смислу овај авион био безначајан, он је одиграо веома важну улогу у прескакању технолошког јаза између америчке и британске авио индустије са једне страна и италијанске. Захваљујући лиценцној производњи британских и америчких авиона и млазних мотора као и на основу стечених искуства у властитој конструкцији малзних авиона Фиатови конструктори на челу са инж. Ђузепе Габријелијем направили су авион Фиат G.91 који је победио на НАТО конкурсу за најбољи лаки ловац, и на тај начин ухватили корак са модерним авио индустријама света.

Сачувани примерци
Фиат G.80-3Б војне регистрације Италијанског ратног ваздухопловства ММ53882/РС-22, раније изложен у Пратица ди Маре, сада се чува у спектакуларном музеју Museo Storico, Vigna di Valle Italia.

Земље које су користиле авион

Види још
 Г-2 галеб
 Локид Т-33 шутинг стар
 Aermacchi MB-326

Референце

Литература
 Bridgman, Leonard (1956). Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1956–57. New York: The McGraw Hill Book Company.
 Taylor, Michael J. H. (1989). Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation. London: Studio Editions. pp. 390–91.

Спољашње везе

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As the Festival season has come around one more time in Adelaide I have had a look back at some of the unpublished photographs taken during the development of the Backstage Pass exhibition. Here is a collection of ten images that have not been displayed anywhere before.
This ladder was accidentally lit beautifully during some technical work in the auditorium of the Festival Theatre.
The view from the stage at Her Majesty's Theatre.
In a storeroom near the Dunstan Playhouse. Some souvenirs from previous shows can linger for decades.
More souvenirs on a grand scale. This is in the northern wing of the Festival Theatre taken from the stage.
Crew shovelling sand on the stage of the Dunstan Playhouse after a production of Peer Gynt during the OzAsia Festival. The huge tiled mirror backdrop was also part of the production and is reflecting the crew and bins in the foreground.
An example of how neat and tidy the production staff can be. At the back of the stage in the Space Theatre during the Adelaide Cabaret Festival.
In the wings of the Festival Theatre. The heavy duty cable and control box operate the Orchestra pit that moves up and down as required for different performances.
A hoist in use to suspend drapes around the Festival Theatre stage in readiness for the Adelaide Cabaret Festival when audiences and performers would share the stage.
In the wings of Her Majesty's Theatre.
In the end, EVERYTHING EXPLODES. A cue sheet from a performance on the Festival Theatre stage.


People almost never see the underlying code that drives the software they use. Their interactions with the software are limited to the text, graphics, and controls that make up the user interface, or the UI, of the software. Because people's experiences are limited to the UI, it is common for people to over-emphasize its role when commissioning custom software development.
Not realizing the amount of non-UI-related work that needs to be done for a project.
Not understanding or even being aware of the importance of high quality code.
The UI is visible and tangible, and it is possible for non-technical people to gage whether it is built well. Poorly written code, i.e. bad code quality, is usually hidden from non-technical people. Furthermore, a high quality UI does not necessarily mean the underlying code is written well.
Poor code quality can be an extremely expensive problem to fix. This article describes what code quality is, why its important, and how to handle issues related to it. We hope this article will help managers, business-owners, or entrepreneurs who are interested in building custom software avoid some common problems related to code quality.
When you hire a new agency to take over the code, or to help with the project, they complain about how difficult it is to understand the code; they may even suggest re-writing all of it.
Most of these issues doesn't arise until the project is far along, and a large amount of poorly written code has accumulated.
It is often cheaper to completely discard poorly written code than it is to try and improve it.
A significant number of the projects we have worked on are re-writes of existing software that had exceptionally bad code quality.
What Makes Some Code Good or Bad?
Not everyone agrees on how best to structure a program, and there is a large spectrum between terribly written code and high-quality code. However, there are many agreed-upon coding best practices that, when followed, will improve the software that uses them.
Managing complexity is the most important technical topic in software development.
We completely agree. Even the smallest projects, which may appear simple on the surface, involve many different systems that must work together in complicated ways. Software is extremely complicated and can stretch the limits of what the human mind has the capacity to keep track of at once. Most programming best-practices stem back to managing complexity well, and answer the question: how do we keep the code as simple as possible, while performing the task that it needs to perform?
In the next few sections, we discuss some specific aspects of code quality.
When a piece of software is small, manually verifying its functionality is feasible. As it grows in size and complexity, the number of verification steps quickly becomes too large to perform consistently. As a result, developers will often skip verification steps after making changes to the code, and often times this is when new bugs creep in. During the initial development, these bugs are less common, however once the software is being used, it becomes a much larger problem.
Fortunately, there are many ways to automate the testing process, so that computers will test a variety of aspects of the software to ensure it is working properly.
We believe that automated testing is a critical component of quality code, and it is often the single biggest technique that can help reduce the number of bugs in a software system.
Automated tests take time to write, and when the software is updated, the tests must be updated as well. For this reason, tests add additional up-front work when building software. Unless the project is very small (or there are other good reasons, as discussed further along in the article), this extra up-front cost will be paid back several times over during the lifetime of the code.
Another advantage of automated tests, besides providing quality assurance, is that it acts as implicit, up-to-date documentation about how the software is supposed to function. Automated tests also make it easier for new developers to work on the code, because they will be warned by the automated tests if they accidentally break something (the tests act as a safety net).
Unfortunately, because tests don't directly contribute functionality to the software, it is easy to skimp on writing them (or even skip them completely). The problem is further exacerbated because the issues caused by a lack of tests aren't visible for a while. Agencies under tight deadlines (or who have over-promised results) will often use this technique.
For all but the most short-lived software projects, the code being written for it will be read many times more than it is written.
High-quality code is written so that it is as easy as possible for other developers to read it.
Difficult to read code is problematic for a lot of reasons. Identifying and correcting bugs takes longer, adding new functionality is more difficult and error-prone, and new developers will take much longer getting started.
There are many factors that affect codes readability.
All of these factors occur naturally over time. For example, a button in the UI that was named the blueButton in the code has its color changed from blue to red, but the name isn't updated in the code. Another common example is: a client requests specific functionality for one employee using the software, so the developer goes in and hard-codes the employee's id number in several places to make this happen. Now, a year from now, nobody will know what this magical number means or what its purpose is.
Poorly written code often has a lot of duplication.
Imagine your web application sends emails from fifteen different places in the code. The sloppy way to handle this is to copy and paste the code that sends emails to each location, and then make little modifications where necessary.
This code duplication is bad.
What happens if you change email servers, or want to add analytics to see how many people open the emails? Now, the code must be updated in fifteen locations! It is all too easy, especially for a developer that is new to the project, to forget a spot. Whats worse, the place they forget will likely be in a rarely used feature (because if its not it will be identified quickly), and the newly introduced bug won't show its head for several weeks.
High quality code avoids duplication by combining shared functionality into reusable pieces of code that can invoked whenever it is needed. This makes the code easier to read, and repairs or extensions only need to be applied in one place.
In programming lingo, an "Exception" is a rare-event that should be handled differently in the code.
For example, imagine you commission software that must send emails when a rare business events occur. The software works well for over a year, then you stop receiving emails completely. After a few months of missing emails, you realize that the custom software you had built is failing silently! It turns out that your IT department changed a setting on the firewall a few months back, and the custom software has been failing because of this without warning.
The custom software probably should handle this "exceptional" situation gracefully—perhaps by waiting fifteen minutes and trying to send the email again. Then, if it fails a second time, it should display a message to all the administrators.
Poor quality code often does not handle exceptional situations well.
That being said, it is usually unnecessary to handle every exceptional case that can occurs in an application. Ideally, the trade offs involved and the likelihood of the various exceptions occurring will be discussed up front, instead of being revealed by strange and hard to find bugs after the software has been released.
Writing high-quality code takes more time up front than poorly written code. Sometimes, it can make business sense to "get something out the door". This is often the case for early stage startups; getting a buggy, error-prone version of software into the hands of early users can be more valuable than having high-quality code, and then realizing that nobody wants to use your software anyway.
The accumulation of poor quality code is often referred to as technical debt. Technical debt is similar to taking out a loan to get the software up and running quickly, but just as with a real loan, you will pay interest in the form of more expensive maintenance and future development. The more bad code you have, the more interest you will have to pay. Eventually, you can build up so much technical debt that it is better to abandon the software and rebuild a new version from scratch.
Sometimes it is also possible to "pay down the technical debt" by investing time cleaning up the code. This process, often referred to as refactoring, involves making changes to the code to make it easier to read and work with, without actually changing the core functionality.
Technical debt isn't a bad thing in-and-of-itself! It can be a viable strategy for a startup to bootstrap itself on technical debt. However, if you own or work for a more established company it will likely make more sense to avoid accumulating technical debt, and have the software written properly from the beginning.
It can be very difficult for a non-technical person to monitor the code quality of a project.
Imagine that you are having your house custom built. You walk into the half-finished house and look around. Maybe you can identify some suspicious construction, however you will naturally be very unsure of yourself. If the general manager assures you this is normal, where do you go from there? Also, what about deeper problems that you may not be able to identify?
Discuss these issues with your development team, before signing the contract. If you require very higher levels of code quality and uptime, realistic agencies will alter their estimates for the project.
Discuss testing strategies with the agency, as well as what methods are in place to ensure enough tests are being written. There are tools that will determine what fraction of the code is covered by tests—these metrics can be misleading, but they are better than nothing in many cases. You can set a certain required level of code coverage.
Use an automated code quality tool. For example, we have had good experiences with Code Climate.
Ask the agency if they would mind having the code audited once or twice by another agency. An experienced developer should be able to give you reasonably good feeling for the level of code quality in a project after looking through the code for an hour or two.
If nothing else, ask to look through the code yourself! In some cases code quality is so poor that it will be readily apparent even to a non-technical person.
Software is complicated. Although the user interface is a very important and visible component of software, there is a lot going on under the surface that is less visible. Even though it is hidden from sight, it is important that the level of code quality throughout the project meets your business needs, as poor code quality can be an extremely expensive problem to fix.
Hopefully this article helped you understand some of the common issues related to code quality, and provided some advice on how to ensure you are receiving the level of code quality you expected.


Vehicle Depot Panagarh Recruitment 2016 – Apply Offline for 27 LDC, Superintendent & Fireman Posts. Vehicle Depot, Panagarh has made a job proposal over its career site with the goal of recruiting young and skillful aspirants in the vacant positions of LDC, Superintendent and Fireman designation. Individuals who are hunting for permanent jobs after passing the specified qualification may apply for Vehicle Depot Vacancies. Meritorious sportsmen who have represented their state in National/ International/ university tournament can get relaxation on sports quota basis. For more details about Vehicle Depot Panagarh Recruitment 2016 candidates may refer the official notification.
The number of posts mentioned against each post is indicative and could be changed as per Vehicle Depot needs. The selection will be purely based on the marks obtained by contenders in Physical test/ skill test and written exam only. Travel allowance will not be paid for individuals appearing for the selection process. The service at Vehicle Depot will be made regular only after successful probation period. Candidates Interested in Vehicle Depot Panagarh Recruitment can send their application form in the prescribed format to the address mentioned below.
Candidates who have passed 12th standard and holds excellent typing skills are eligible to apply for the Lower Division Clerk (LDC) position.
Aspirants who are applying for the Superintendent Job must have obtained graduation in any discipline or Diploma in Material Management or any equivalent from a reputed university.
Bidders who are applying for the fireman positions should have passed matriculation level examination or similar exam from a recognized university. Only male candidates can apply for this position and must also be physically fit, as per Vehicle Depot Recruitment norms.
Job hunters aged between 18 to 25 years are eligible to apply for the LDC & Fireman Vacancies of Vehicle Depot. Howbeit, the upper age limit could be relaxed upto 3 years for OBC, 5 years for SC/ ST category and 10 years for PWD category (13 years for OBC & 15 years for SC/ ST).
Meritorious Sportsperson can get age relaxation upto 5 years (8 years for OBC & 10 years for SC/ ST). The upper age limit capped for Superintendent post is 27 years.
If the applications send by the supplicants are large in number, then the application will be shortlisted in the ratio of 1:50. Individuals who have applied for the LDC Job should qualify in the Typing test followed by written exam. Written examination is the qualifying nature for Superintendent Post.
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Consider IT offers freebie for any business worried over Windows upgrade costs
THE BOSS of a flourishing Scottish IT company is offering a free tool to businesses – after learning that a major council paid £34,000 to upgrade its Windows-based computers.
Stuart Gilbertson, who set up Consider IT in Edinburgh 10 years ago and built it into a £1.2m a year business, is concerned other organisations may avoid upgrading for fear of incurring similar costs.
So, his Edinburgh-based team have developed a free tool which they will make available to anyone who has Windows PCs which are due to be upgraded from Windows 7 to the Windows 10 operating system (OS).
Dad-of-two Mr Gilbertson, 33, whose Consider IT business is based in Leith, Edinburgh, said: "Bottom line is that the migration itself is an easy job, if you're literate in this area and that you can run the basic Windows 10 installer.
"What we're proud of is that we have created a tool to let our clients do it on any Windows 7 machine, from anywhere in the world.
"The tool took us less than six hours to build. Now we will make it free to any business who wants to use it. We hope that will reassure businesses that this needn't be an expensive process."
Public records show that last month (NOV) Stirling Council awarded a £34,000 contract to Softcat Ltd from Marlow, Buckinghamshire. Softcat was the only company to tender for the contract.
Stirling Council's notice for the contract stated: "This is a one-off need for a tool to assist ICT with migrating PCs from Windows 7 to Windows 10 across the estate."
However, Stuart believes the free tool can help businesses effectively manage costs during any transition. While businesses will still have to pay Microsoft for new Windows 10 licences, the free tool will allow the upgrade to happen on either Windows Business or Windows Enterprise versions of the operating system.
He added: "We manage both the Business and Enterprise licences for clients and our tool doesn't care which version is being rolled out.
"Nor should this have anything to do with the size of the business or the number of PCs. Indeed, we've just gone through this process updating 230 plus machines for a client."
The need to upgrade Windows 7 computers is a pressing IT issues facing businesses and organisations. Silicon Valley giant Microsoft is ending support for the popular operating system from January 2020. While Windows 7 machines will still work, Microsoft is retiring the 10-year-old platform. That means the tech giant will no longer provide any technical support for any issues and users will no longer receive software updates or security fixes, often referred to as "patches".
Microsoft has told users: "While you could continue to use your PC running Windows 7, without continued software and security updates, it will be at greater risk for viruses and malware. Going forward, the best way for you to stay secure is on Windows 10."
Microsoft also says it is possible for users to upgrade Windows 7 machines to run the Windows 10 operating system, its advice is that PCs should be replaced with newer machines. However, most in-house IT teams and specialist IT support companies like Consider IT are helping businesses and organisation to upgrade as many PCs as possible.
Consider IT has a burgeoning list of 70 clients across Edinburgh, Glasgow and London, and since being founded has built up a £1.2m-a-year turnover.
Its fleet of orange and white branded support vehicles have become a familiar sight across the city, with its team of highly qualified technicians working with many of the city's best-known SMEs, including the Faculty of Advocates, The Federation for Industry Sector Skills and Standards, Nile and Par Equity.
One of its most successful services is an eerie "ghost office" of 18 desks, all complete with powerful PCs – a disaster recovery suite which can be operational for any of its clients hit by a catastrophe like a fire or a flood, giving instant access to that business's vital files and computer systems.
Any businesses interested in getting access to Consider IT's free Windows upgrade tool can obtain more information at https://www.considerit.co.uk/resources/windows-7-to-windows-10-tool/
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A few of these Cinquefoils look quite similar but the beauty of this one is that it flowers first by a month or so. If you find one covered in flowers in early April or late March in a warm Spring, then it is unlikely to be P. reptans (Creeping Cinquefoil) or P. anglica (Trailing Tormentil) whose yellow flowers are quite similar.
This is also a species which has suffered from the dreaded Taxonomia confusa condition. It was called Potentilla tabernaemontani when I started botanising seriously in the 80s, then it was changed by the taxonomists to Potentilla neumanniana which was at least little less of a tongue twister.
Now it has re emerged as Potentilla tabernaemontani again in the BSBI, Kent lists and now in New Flora of the British Isles Edition 3 by Clive Stace.
It has an interesting distribution in that it does not mind northerly latitudes but is clustered wherever it is found - often on dry and rocky basic grassland. There are clusters of sites near to Edinburgh, North Wales, the white peak in Derbyshire, Inverness, East Anglia and in Somerset but it is not common and is classified as RR by Stace in Edition 3.
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Nifty futures on the Singapore Exchange traded lower, indicating a negative start on Dalal Street.
Oil prices fell on Thursday, extending losses into a second straight session, after widely watched data showed a surprising increase in US stocks.
NEW DELHI: Higher levels of F&O rollovers suggest likely low volatility on Dalal Street in Thursday's trade. But with the global mood turning negative, it remains to be seen if the domestic indices can log gains after a tepid Wednesday.
Nifty futures on the Singapore Exchange traded 28 points, or 0.24 per cent, lower at 11,418, indicating a negative start on Dalal Street.
Nifty50 on Wednesday fell in late trade to form a bearish candle on the daily chart, which resembled a 'Dark Cloud Cover'. Analysts said traders have little conviction at highs. The market bias remains negative, as long as the index stays below the 11,550 level.
Nifty futures rollover stood till Wednesday stood at 59 per cent against 52 per cent rollovers seen in the last three series. Market-wide rollovers stood at 67 per cent. "As rollovers percentages are higher, F&O market expiry is less likely to be a volatile affair," said Edelweiss Securities.
Asian share markets were painted red on Thursday as recession concerns sent bond yields spiralling lower across the globe, overshadowing central bank attempts to calm frayed nerves. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan slipped 0.2 per cent in early trade, with South Korea off 0.7 per cent. Japan's Nikkei fell 1.6 per cent.
E-Mini futures for the S&P 500 were trading 0.4 per cent lower. In the overnight trade, the Dow Jones Industrial Average had settled 0.13 per cent lower, while the S&P500 index lost 0.46 per cent and the Nasdaq Composite index 0.63 per cent.
Oil prices fell on Thursday, extending losses into a second straight session, after widely watched data showed a surprising increase in US stocks. International Brent crude oil futures were at $67.63 a barrel, down 20 cents, or 0.3 percent, from their last close.
Historical data suggest that Indian equities consistently outperformed MSCI Asia Pacific index during past instances of US yield curve inversion. MSCI India has delivered returns of 12 per cent on average in the next six months and 3.7 per cent in the next 12 months after the first instance of US yield curve inversion.
Foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) bought Rs 1,481 crore worth of domestic stocks on Wednesday, data available with NSE suggested. DIIs were net sellers to the tune of Rs 135 crore, data suggested.
Out of the top five institutional investors in local equities excluding LIC, four are domestic asset managers, which have benefitted from the shift in savings from real estate and gold to equities in the last four years.
Rupee down: The rupee weakened marginally by 2 paise to close at 68.88 against the US dollar Wednesday amid strengthening of the American currency and robust selling in domestic equities.
The Securities and Exchange Board of India has deferred the implementation of tighter norms for royalty payments by listed companies by three months. The new rules will require companies to seek shareholder approval for payments made to related parties towards brand usage or royalty in excess of 2% of the company's annual turnover.
Recession concerns sent bond yields spiraling lower across the globe on Thursday, overshadowing central bank attempts to calm frayed nerves. Worries that the inversion of the US Treasury curve signaled a future recession only deepened as 10-year yields fell to 15-month lows at 2.35%. The latest lunge lower was led by German bunds where 10-year yields dived deeper into negative territory after European Central Bank President Mario Draghi said a hike in interest rates could be further delayed.
India on Wednesday made its way into an elite club of "space super powers" as its anti-satellite missile A-SAT successfully targeted a live satellite on a low earth orbit in just three minutes. So far only three countries - the US, Russia & China -- had this technology.
Currency in circulation as percentage of GDP declined by over 1 percentage points to 10.48% in the two years after demonetisation, a finance ministry official said. The government had demonetised currency notes of 500 and 1000 denomination on November 8, 2016, to check black money.


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In summer 2020, Disney Cruise Line will embark on a variety of itineraries around the world, including a long-awaited return to Greece and the addition of five first-time ports of call in Europe. Along with an expanded European season aboard the Disney Magic, adventures will continue across the fleet with sailings to Alaska, the Caribbean and Bahamas.
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After a five-year hiatus, the Disney Magic will return to Greece in summer 2020 as part of three special Mediterranean voyages departing from Rome. During one 12-night and two nine-night cruises, you can marvel at the beautiful landscapes and archeological wonders of destinations like Piraeus, the gateway to Athens; Katakolon, near ancient Olympia; and the islands of Santorini, Mykonos and Crete.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is considering releasing its draft proposal to expand sales of higher ethanol blends of gasoline without including simultaneous measures it promised the oil industry to curb biofuel credit speculation, according to three sources familiar with the matter.
The move would help the agency lift a summertime ban on sales of so-called E15 gasoline in time for the U.S. driving season, but is likely to anger oil refiners that had been asking the Trump administration for biofuel credit market reforms to reduce their costs.
If EPA passed on introducing biofuel credit trading limits, it would leave the door open to potential speculative price surges that could cost refiners like Valero Energy Corp (NYSE:) hundreds of millions of dollars. President Donald Trump announced in October he was directing the EPA to allow year-round sales of E15, in a win for the powerful corn industry which supplies ethanol. E15 gasoline contains 15 percent ethanol, versus the 10 percent found in most U.S. gasoline.
The ban had been imposed over concerns that E15 contributes to smog in hot weather.
EPA spokesman Michael Abboud declined to comment.
The EPA had initially planned to combine credit trading limits into the E15 rule as a concession to the oil industry, which says speculation increases the price of biofuel credits it must purchase to comply with federal law.
Under the U.S. Renewable Fuels Standard oil refiners have to blend increasing volumes of biofuels into the nation's gasoline and diesel each year, or purchase credits – called Renewable Identification Numbers – from those who do.
The combined draft proposal was scheduled for release this month, and was meant to be finalized and implemented by June.
"The EPA has been seriously looking at dropping the RIN reform to speed up the process on E15," one industry source with knowledge of the matter said.
One other source said that the EPA had already decided to delay the credit trading limits. "They separated the RIN reform to ensure that the (E15) rule would get done in a timely manner," the source said.
The sources asked not to be named discussing the matter.
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The recent partial government shutdown in the United States had raised concerns the effort might not be completed on time because agency workers were furloughed. Bill Wehrum, a senior EPA official, in charge of the department drafting the rule, said the agency would still make it ready for summer driving season.