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GM says it will phase out cars without air bags
DETROIT (AP) — General Motors Co. said Thursday it will phase out cars without air bags and other safety features after its Chevrolet Sail subcompact flunked a crash test in Latin America. The Latin New Car Assessment Program — an independent testing organization — said Thursday the Sail received...
DETROIT (AP) — General Motors Co. said Thursday it will phase out cars without air bags and other safety features after its Chevrolet Sail subcompact flunked a crash test in Latin America.
The Latin New Car Assessment Program — an independent testing organization — said Thursday the Sail received zero stars in its latest tests. The organization said the Sail is unstable and has no air bags. It also lacks three-point seat belts in all positions.
The Sail is made in China and exported to emerging markets. It has a starting price of less than $10,000.
It's one of several Chevrolet cars that have done poorly on the tests. The Aveo, Spark and Agile cars without air bags also have gotten zero stars on Latin NCAP's tests.
Many other brands — including Chery, Geely, Hyundai, Nissan, Fiat and Renault — also sell cars that have gotten zero stars in the group's crash tests.
Alejandro Furas, Latin NCAP's secretary general, said GM should follow the example of Honda, Toyota and Volkswagen, all of which sell cars that exceed minimal safety standards in Latin America.
Earlier this year, GM CEO Mary Barra defended selling cars without air bags in markets that don't require them, saying they're more affordable for low-income buyers.
But on Thursday, GM reiterated a pledge it made last summer to spend $5 billion developing safer cars for emerging markets. The cars will have air bags and three-point seat belts in all positions, the company said.
The new cars will start appearing in the 2019 model year, the company said.
"GM shares the goal of improving road safety worldwide, including the adoption of basic auto safety standards in global markets and the phase-out of zero-star cars," the company said in a statement.
This story corrects an earlier version to say that cars will begin appearing in the 2019 model year, not by 2019.
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In May he extended this thanks to doctors after his surgery was declared a success. Messages of support can be sent to jw@qedg.co.uk.


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Naomi Klein and the Letdown of the Leap Manifesto: Energy Depletion Dismissal is Just as Bad as Climate Change Denial [part 1/4]
Over the years I've had the pleasure of chatting with Naomi Klein on a few different occasions; there was that first Prairie Festival at the Land Institute in Kansas that we both happened to attend in 2010, that second Prairie Festival which she spoke at in 2011, and the opening night talk she gave at the Toronto Reference Library the day before her latest book (This Changes Everything) was released – not to mention all those other times I've seen her speaking in Toronto (where we both used to live for several years). And although I've only very briefly spoken once to Klein's filmmaker-husband Avi Lewis (at that second Prairie Festival), there was that time in Toronto that Lewis and I stood next to each other for about half an hour and managed to say not a single word to each other. But I'll get to that in part 2.
While Lewis is known for his work hosting various television programs on MuchMusic, CityTV, CBC, and Al Jazeera English, as well as for directing a few documentaries, it is Klein that is the more well known of the two, mostly due to her books No Logo, The Shock Doctrine, and This Changes Everything. That being said, one year ago this week – and at last year's Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) – the Lewis-directed documentary This Changes Everything had its world-premiere, an event that coincided with the release of the Leap Manifesto.
The Leap Manifesto, which received much media coverage upon its release, is a 15-point plan for tackling the climate change dilemma we're currently faced with, particularly in respect to Canada. However, with the Leap Manifesto's one-year anniversary being today, and with it now appearing that there isn't going to be some kind of Leap Manifesto Redux in association with this year's TIFF, I'd say it's time to declare that the Leap Manifesto was in fact a colossal letdown. To explain, I'll start by conveying a little chat I had with a fellow attendee at the 2014 Age of Limits (AoL) conference.
I was standing around the campfire talking about peak oil and collapse with Mark Robinowitz (of the website Peak Choice), and for a reason that eludes my memory I brought up Klein's book The Shock Doctrine – one of three books that absolutely floored me upon first reading them. Although I was singing the praises of Klein's book, Robinowitz was having none of it, pointing out that not once did Klein mention resource shortages as the underlying issue behind any of the crises mentioned, and moreover, not once was peak oil mentioned in the book's index. True. Very true. But–
–nope, no buts allowed was what I took from Robinowitz's response: "Tell you what. You ask Klein about limits to growth and see what she has to say."
I don't think either of us took that as a literal challenge, but lo and behold, six months later I was near the front of the audience at Klein's launch and talk for This Changes Everything, with the Q&A period soon upon us. I quickly got in the Q&A line as the talk finished, and was fortunate enough to be able to ask the third and final question of the night. Although I really wanted to query Klein about peak oil, it was an extremely polite looking crowd that night at the Toronto Public Library, resulting in me chickening out and asking her this instead:
How does what you write in your new book relate to limits to growth, if at all?
As a friend who I bumped into a few minutes later said to me, "That was you that asked that question? That was the only good question asked!" And then in hushed tones, "But Naomi's response was awful." Unfortunately I couldn't have agreed more. Although I don't remember Klein's entire response, this gist, and which she stated word for word before some talk about windmills and solar panels and such, was "That's why we need green growth!"
Green... growth?
Brave enough to also point out the collapse- and energy depletion-related issues we're already facing!
Rather than conveying my personal revulsion to the notion of "green growth," let me just relay a couple of critical quotes about this sordid affair:
This growth imperative is why conventional economists reliably approach the climate crisis by asking the question, How can we reduce emissions while maintaining robust GDP growth? The usual answer is "decoupling" – the idea that renewable energy and greater efficiencies will allow us to sever economic growth from its environmental impact. And "green growth" advocates like Thomas Friedman tell us that the process of developing new green technologies and installing green infrastructure can provide a huge economic boost, sending GDP soaring and generating the wealth needed to "make America healthier, richer, more innovative, more productive, and more secure."
And secondly,
We're just going, "Green jobs, green capitalism, change your light bulbs, this isn't as scary as you think."
And who was it, you might ask, that made those statements? That would actually be none other than Klein herself (see here and here). While I think it's safe to say that Klein isn't a Friedman-ite, the response Klein gave to me can certainly still give the impression that her belief is that rather than changing our light bulbs we should instead be changing what powers those light bulbs (c'mon, this isn't as scary as you think!). Moreover, upon reading in one sitting the dozen or so articles by Klein and about the Leap Manifesto that I'd saved over the past year, I was rather startled to realize that not only does Klein readily dismiss energy depletion issues, but that her writings are rife with inconsistencies. So much so that they seem to imply not just energy depletion dismissal, but possibly even energy depletion denial.
From Klein's apt blurb on the back cover: "The climate crisis is far too urgent to squander another decade on false solutions"
For starters, it doesn't seem to be easy to come across mention of peak oil by Klein. Although I think he was mistaken, peak oil seems to be such a non-issue with Klein that Erik Curren of Transition Voice could actually title one of his posts "Naomi Klein Now Officially a Peak Oiler." Nonetheless, one of those articles I'd saved did have Klein stating that
We will attempt to transcend peak oil and gas by using increasingly risky technologies to extract the last drops, turning ever larger swaths of our globe into sacrifice zones.
Too true. But in what is perhaps a more telling quote, Klein tells Rob Hopkins that
It seems to me that the premise you're working from here is that change is going to be forced upon us by peak oil and my fear is that we have too much oil – too much unconventional fuel of various sources; not just oil but natural gas, coal.
Klein has a problem with the premise that "change is going to be forced upon us by peak oil"? Alright. But here's her speaking about climate change during promotion of the Leap Manifesto:
So here's the big question: What if global warming isn't only a crisis? What if it's the best chance we are ever going to get to build a better world? Change or be changed.
I dare say, but how is it okay to say that we will "change or be changed" by global warming, but it's deemed questionable to act on the premise that "change is going to be forced upon us by peak oil"? Is that latter quote of Klein's not allowable if the words "global warming" are replaced with "peak oil"?
To give Klein the benefit of the doubt, let's suppose that her gripe with peak oil is that even if there's roughly half of the all-time supply of oil left (to be burned up), that that's still plenty enough to mess up the climate a whole lot more. Let me state then that I, and I'd guess most others concerned with peak oil, don't doubt that "[t]here is enough oil in the ground to deep-fry the lot of us" (as George Monbiot put it in 2012). But just because some people (like Jeff Rubin) think that peaking oil supplies will imply a respite for CO2-induced climate change, this doesn't mean that everybody thinks this way. That's a bit like saying that just because cherry-picking-Guy-McPherson envisions climate-induced near term human extinction (NTHE) within a few years that all advocates for climate change-awareness and -action have gone off the deep end and we should just stick to social justice issues.
Because the fact of the matter is that change is going to be – and is already being – forced upon us by both peak oil and climate change, and that neither of them should be dismissed at the expense of the other. That being said, with the launch of the Leap Manifesto Klein said that
My crisis isn't bigger than your crisis. They're interconnected, they're overlapping and we can come up with solutions that solve multiple problems at once.
Except, that is, when it comes to peak oil. For as Klein also stated to Hopkins,
In some ways I think it would be a blessing if we were in a more precarious energy situation, because it would force that change... I don't feel that we have the luxury to wait for change to be imposed from the outside and just have to decide whether we're going to manage it or not.
First off, only the naïve and lazy say that we should wait around for peak oil to change us, and to single out that point of view is to create a straw-man argument out of concern with energy supplies. And secondly, "I think it would be a blessing if we were in a more precarious energy situation"!? Seriously!? Either Klein is a masochist, or she obviously doesn't understand the role that energy shortages are already imposing around the world. I'm quite sure it's the latter, understandable when we notice Klein's apparent lack of comprehension of the motives behind recent pushes for austerity. As Klein puts it (and which is one of the Leap Manifesto's 15 pillars),
We declare that "austerity" – which has systematically attacked low-carbon sectors such as education and health care, while starving public transit and forcing reckless energy privatizations – is a fossilized form of thinking that has become a threat to life on Earth.
I think Klein has inadvertently made a rather astute observation here, because austerity is a "fossilized form of thinking." That is, it's a form of thinking that emanates from an economic system and a modern way of life made possible by copious supplies of fossilized energy sources, something that neither of those are able to give up without offing themselves in the process.
As I've explained at length earlier by way of Greece's ongoing situation (see here and here), austerity is a mechanism used to try to preserve the status quo for a perpetually shrinking centre. With worldwide per capita energy supplies likely peaking soon, and the demand for energy by the billion or so people at the top increasing unabatedly, this ultimately means fewer energy supplies to go around for the other six billion or so – and in this case for the Greek who isn't part of the upper percentile. But Klein seems to have a limited-enough grasp of energy depletion issues that she can actually say with a straight face that
the austerity being imposed on Greece... is being used as an excuse to open up all these new dirty projects. They're talking about drilling for oil in the Aegean and Ionian seas, some of the most storied oceans in history.
Greece's ability to import supplies of oil in order to sustain its accustomed-to industrial way of life started to falter after 2008, right when its economic problems began. Coincidence? I think not
Well of course they are! What seems to have gone right over George Monbiot's head when he wrote his article "We were wrong on peak oil. There's enough to fry us all" back in 2012 is that the peak extraction rate of conventional oil was reached back in 2006, and it's only the desperate scraping of the bottom of the barrel for unconventionals – fracking, tar sands, deep sea, etc. – that has kept overall levels from peaking. But unconventionals are believed to be quickly reaching their peak as well (possibly even this year), so for a myriad of reasons it's no wonder that there's talk of tapping Greece's seas for a last desperate hit.
In effect, dealing with energy depletion essentially comes down to three options:
You start reducing the amount of energy usage by everybody across the board – rich and poor, centre and peripheries. This way there's an equitable reduction in energy usage by all involved (if not a greater reduction by those at the top since they're already using so much more). This is so far not happening in the slightest.
You triage the poor/peripheries by way of cutting back on health care, retirement benefits, welfare, schooling, etc. Since money is but a proxy for energy, by freeing up the money for all those services and activities you free up the energy that they would have utilized, which is then salvageable by those closer to the centre. This is the very least that creditors (like Germany) demand in order for further loans to be made, loans that are essentially used to pay off the interest on the previous loans as well as import some energy supplies to that stuff can be made to be sold to the creditors. Creditors (such as Germany) have no interest in causing a Greek default and having to deal with the resultant loss on their books, but they also don't want to give debtors so many new loans that they end up angering their own voters (who essentially want that money/proxy for themselves so that they can purchase the products that peaking energy supplies still make possible). As a result, new loans are made with the effective stipulation that the borrowing nation's poor get cut off – aka triaged, aka austerity-ized. If a nation involved in this Ponzi scheme is in need of further loans in order to make interest payments on its previous loans, but isn't willing to play along and triage their poor for the sake of briefly propping up their (diminishing) centre, then creditors threaten to triage/austerity-ize the entire country. This is what nearly happened to Greece, resulting in its president Alexis Tsipras implementing austerity measures rather than going down in history as the guy that forced the Troika's hand to pre-emptively triage a grossly unprepared Greece for a return to a pre-industrial way of life. (Greece's expulsion from the Euro would have meant reversion to a highly devalued drachma and thus paltry purchasing power for imports of oil to keep the lights on and all the rest of it.)
You adhere to the belief and promises of 100% renewable energy and blame politicians for not implementing the right policies.
From what I can tell, Klein favours option #3, with some (somewhat token) words given to option #1. Sure, Klein can state that
a just climate response would see the US and other rich countries having less so that others could have more.
But she also states that
The fact that we're investing so heavily in military and border control at the same time we're cutting infrastructure – it's a choice about how we are going to deal with climate change. It says, "we're going to try and fortress ourselves and protect what we've got".
But economically/energetically speaking this isn't something we're going to do, it's something we are doing, right now, in response to energy shortages. And if the fewer and fewer of the West – or the Global North or whatever you want to call it – want to continue living high off the hog of industrial civilization's plunders for as long as they can – as the overwhelming evidence seems to be showing – then austerity – "fortress ourselves and protect what we've got" – is the name of the game.
Yes, Klein can say many great things (I'm being 100% serious), but it nonetheless seems that she's often-enough unable to take heed of her own words. Sure, she'll say that
there is something going on where a world view is saying that there will always be more, that there are no limits, there's a new frontier around the corner, technology will come and save us.
Yet the core of the Leap Manifesto is based on that very way of thinking. For as Klein also put it when promoting the Leap Manifesto,
Technological breakthroughs have brought this dream [of 100% renewable energy] within reach.
Perhaps Canada should also be concerned about peak oil?
"Technological breakthroughs"? As in those ones that are part of the "world view" of which we shouldn't expect "technology [to] come and save us"? Those "technological breakthroughs"? Why yes. For as Klein stated in an interview with Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!, again for the Leap Manifesto's release,
we can transition away from fossil fuels very rapidly in line with what... engineers are telling us we now can do because of these breakthroughs in technology.
And what do we want from these "breakthroughs in technology"?
[W]e want energy sources that will last for time immemorial and never run out or poison the land.
Never mind that we've already got one of those (it's called the sun), but what exactly are the energy sources that these "breakthroughs in technology" can now give us?
The latest research shows it is feasible to get 100 per cent of our electricity from renewable resources within two decades. We demand that this shift begin now.
And not only that, but working off of "the latest research" the Leap Manifesto also demands the (supposedly feasible) complete shift from all fossil fuels to renewables by 2050.
"The latest research," however, is of course a colloquialism often used by adherents to the religion of progress in place of "techno mumbo-jumbo." For in a similar manner, and as Michael Pollan put it in his excellent book In Defence of Food,
Several studies have found that when industry funds nutrition research, the conclusions are more likely to produce findings favorable to that industry's products.
That doesn't automatically dismiss the studies that Klein and the Leap Manifesto refer to, but when one places too strong of an importance on politics, and not on physics, it's bound to muddy one's perceptions. I'll get to that, and more, in part 2.
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I started off surrounded by women and men, all rooting for my success - or at least I thought. Over time, as I became more successful and road the wave, some dropped off. Not the men, just the women. At first I use to feel hurt and didn't understand why, until finally after so many other women that have been in my shoes before shared their stories with me, I accepted that it is life.
Women come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime.
If you look at what success looks like for the many generations of women out there, it is very different, however, I can definitely make assumptions on my era and most probably millennials. The gen-x's of the world were given a green light. Our mother's started to pave a way for us to be counted and we took that to the next level. We still played by many rules, but were able to forge our way to the top of the tree, if we so desired. We stopped being just mother's and had a choice as to whether we were to focus on career or motherhood or a bit of both. What a privilege it is to have grown up in that era.
Some needed both due to finances, while other's were given a choice.
I look at my sisterhood; my best friends from school and earlier on in life - all of whom are still my friends today. Actually, they are my best friends and I feel especially privileged for that. From school, all with the exception of one, supported my every endeavour. We may have moved away from each other, but they were always secretly proud that I went on to do 'things' that made a difference or in some cases achieved a result I would not have gotten had I stayed in the country town I grew up in.
She was jealous when I got the guy (hot guy at school that was my boyfriend for years) because in her mind, she was prettier than me.
She was jealous when I got the job (not so glamorous as it may sound, but it was in television) because she played the lead in a school play and wanted to be a star.
I became rich and everything was at my disposal, and she never quite made it in the financial stakes. Now this one saddens me, but it also taught me many things about who I am and what is important in life. It also made me respect my parents and how they had brought me up.
Let me repeat, this women is an awesome human being and a good friend. To be able to have these conversations is a privilege. Yes, we didn't talk for a couple of years, but that was not me not talking to her, it was her not talking to me. As she would attest, I didn't do anything wrong, I was just living a different life.
Lesson 3: Don't let your mind hold you back, or a disability, or anything for that matter. You can realize your wildest dreams if you work hard, stay positive and believe in yourself.
When you first start work, you meet new people. For me, there were 4 women that really made an impact in my life and are still my friends today. These four women are phenomenally talented women, smart as a tack and capable. They together are not friends, yet they formed my friendship circle. I was the centre only because their personalities were different. However, not once has any of those women said a nasty word about each other, competed for my affections or done anything other than pave their own way in life.
One is a television presenter and producer, another started out in the creative industry and is moving closer to marketing, two started out in advertising and one went into finance and entrepreneurship and the other became a serious player in the corporate world climbing the ladder all the way to the top tier of one of the biggest companies in Australia.
I am so proud of them. They are fiercely smart, creative, different and they all live life by their own definition. They are also strong women.
Lesson 4: You can start at the very bottom and make it to the top if you work hard, learn along the way, bring other women with you, and never make excuses for not reaching your full potential.
Lesson 5: Your currency is you and not what you think people think of you. Keep being unique and an individual.
I've lost a lot of friends along the way, but I have remained consistent. It's the one thing people always say about me. I am the same person. Don't let someone else's issues affect your ability to realize your own dreams and never let someone else's dreams be yours. Work out what you want, when you want it and what you need to sacrifice to achieve that goal.
What I have noticed that has been particularly important is bringing other women with you, and not at the expense of men, but because they deserve your time, energy and respect. We each have a role to play in the world and if we truly want to make it a greater place in which to work and live, we have to stand up and be counted. We have to not be afraid that our opinions differ from another's and definitely don't let our perception of who we should be in the eye's of others hold us back.


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By Catlin Dorset
Oct. 28, 2014 3:23 PM PT
In 1936, two-year-old Angelina "Angie" Oritano emigrated from Sicily, Italy, to Little Italy in San Diego. Since graduating from San Diego High in 1952, she never missed a class reunion.
Angie married Giuseppe "Joe" Giacalone in 1953. For their honeymoon, they rode a train to Los Angeles, where it rained for five days straight. Joe smiles when telling the story about how they never left their hotel room... except to eat.
I've lived across the street from Joe and Angie's house in Mission Hills since 1997, and they've been like surrogate grandparents to me ever since. When their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren have come to visit them over the years, I've been the jubilant benefactor of the extra mounds of food Angie made, but her family - albeit a large and growing group of loving people - couldn't finish.
"Here's a little something from Angie," Joe would say, handing me a 10-pound bowl of her homemade spaghetti and tennis-ball-sized meatballs. "Just bring the dish back when you're done with it tomorrow."
If I had a family of 10, it would take a week to get through one of Angie's "little" dishes.
When I'd return the dish a couple days later (having secretly moved 75 percent of its contents to a plastic container), Angie would give me a hug, tell me I looked too thin (I didn't) and try to send me home with more food - or at least "a couple cookies," which, for her, meant a couple dozen, minimum. I never left empty-handed... or without smelling like her perfume.
A few weeks ago, I was outside my house when I noticed Joe walking toward me. He wasn't carrying a plate; he was coming to tell me that Angie had died in her sleep the night before.
This Dining Issue of PacificSD is dedicated to Angie Giacalone, one of the most loving and wonderful people I've met. By my math, during her 61 years of marriage, this angel incarnate prepared, with generous helpings of love, nearly 70,000 meals for her husband and family - growing her clan, literally, from two to two dozen since her wedding day.
Two weeks ago, I saw Joe in his garage and walked over to see how he was doing. I invited him to come eat dinner with me, Simone and Lex, but he declined. Instead, he opened a freezer in the garage and, with tears welling in his eyes, showed me the food Angie had prepared for him before dying.
"I have enough here to last me for months," he said.
I get a lump in my throat when thinking about how Joe must feel when opening that freezer and taking a package of Angie's frozen food up to the kitchen to reheat it.
Angie spread love - with hugs, with kisses, with food. The crowd at her funeral, held at the same Little Italy Catholic church where she married Joe, was a testament to the passion with which she led her life. The city, the world, has lost one of the good ones.
The day after the funeral, Joe brought me an enormous mound of spaghetti and meatballs, telling me one of Angie's sisters had brought too much food to the house (must run in the family). He smiled and told me I could keep the container for a couple days.
When I returned the container, Angie wasn't there, of course. If she had been, there's no doubt what she would have said:
"You look hungry. Let me make you something to eat."
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Punta Zapotal, Brummel Islets and Tamarindo estuary
Dec 14, 2019 - National Geographic Sea Lion
Morning view of Catalina Islands with moon.
One of the remarkable aspects of Costa Rica is the numerous amounts of secluded locations in the country. Guanacaste is comprised of coastal zones developed for the travel industry, while also a large number of locales left unrevealed for the average traveler. Finding Punta Zapotal has been one of the most treasured locations that a Lindblad-National Geographic program in Costa Rica have ever accomplish.
As we neared our point of anchorage in Punta Zapotal, third mate Pataky and Captain Davis decided to give us a terrific entrée to the eye this morning, bringing us in view of the Catalina Islands. For the first time in our ship's history, we were witnessing from the bow Catalina's flora and fauna. Magnificent frigate birds and brown boobies flew over the islands as the moon set off the horizon. Fantastico!
Guests had a choice between a mid-morning snorkel at Brummel Islets or kayaking at Zapotal Beach. On the other hand, a good number of our guests decided to walk the remote access road to Zapotal beach. Black-headed trogons, rufous-naped wrens, white-throated magpie-jays, among others added to our life list as we walked the mixed flat terrain of pastureland and deciduous forest trees.
For the afternoon, our program is taking us to the beach town of Tamarindo, a vivid space where a mix of nationalities converge to create a community in which one finds a host of different amenities and services. While some guests went about the beach town's proper, others visited Tamarindo's mangroves.
Tamarindo's estuary is a large wetland (700 square hectares in size) protected and designated as a Ramsar site where the local community and Costa Rica in general must protect. Mangroves are recognized to be an efficient habitat that, aside from their role as natural buffer zone between land and marine ecosystems, are a huge contributor in carbon sequestration.
Gustavo Abarca
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Gustavo was born in San Jose as the youngest of three children and now lives with his wife Jenny in San Rafael, Alajuela. Once he finished high school, he became interested in sciences and languages and enrolled at The University of Costa Rica, where he studied Basic Studies of Biosciences and Modern Languages. During this time Gustavo became fluent in both English and Italian.


Supported by the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBACyT 2011-2014 No. 20020100100741), and CONICET (PIP 11220110100091).
We study theoretically the ultrafast spin dynamics of II-VI diluted magnetic quantum wells in the presence of spin-orbit interaction. We extend a recent study where it was shown that the spin-orbit interaction and the exchange sd coupling in bulk and quantum wells can compete resulting in qualitatively new dynamics when they act simultaneously. We concentrate on Hg 1- x-y Mn x Cd y Te quantum wells, which have a highly tunable Rashba spin-orbit coupling. Our calculations use a recently developed formalism which incorporates electronic correlations originating from the exchange sd -coupling. We find that the dependence of electronic spin oscillations on the excess energy changes qualitatively depending on whether or not the spin-orbit interaction dominates or is of comparable strength with the sd interaction.


Jet Aire Services have established a tradition of giving a name to each of the trucks that carry out drainage and civil engineering work as part of our ever-expanding service fleet. Our trusty team of wheeled workers includes Bertie, Pooh, Victor, Buzz and Woody, all based at our North East site. Our Leeds site is home to Harry, Clyde, Gertie, Razor, Apollo and Ronnie. If you see one of them on the road, identification is fairly easy as its name will be featured on the livery. The tradition continued this week when Jet Aire's latest fleet addition, a JHL FlexLine 414 recycler, was named after Rod Robb, Operations Manager at Carnell Group.
Carnell Group is one of Jet Aire's most valued clients and we invited Rod to visit our head office to see the new vehicle named in his honour. Jet Aire Director, Keith Ferris, gave Mr Robb some celebratory champagne to mark the occasion and the other Rod has now hit the road as a new member of the Leeds-based fleet.
Rod is one of only five FlexLine 414 recycler units in the UK and one of just two based in the North – the other one being Apollo! Jet Aire will be adding another four FlexLine 414 recyclers to the fleet later this year as part of our ongoing expansion. Renowned for its eco-friendly performance, the Danish-manufactured FlexLine 414 uses recycling technology to cleanse and re-use water for jetting on site. The system is ideal for de-silting, large diameter pipe cleaning and many of the most challenging industrial cleaning and waste removal tasks.


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CBRE Shares Post-Holiday Reflections on Supply Chain Returns and the Reverse Loop
When the Los Angeles-based industrial real estate developer CBRE released its report "Reverse Logistics Stress Test: Holiday E-Commerce Spike Will Lead to Record Returns " last December, many unanswered questioned remained about supply chain sustainability.
Matt Walaszek, CBRE Director of Research, Industrial & Logistics Research, said at that time that there would a heightened sense of attention being paid to the overload of goods ordered online this holiday season, due, in large part, to the COVID-19 pandemic. As a consequence, more "Class B" space leftover for the purpose of reverse logistics.
He further observed that the industrial logistics real estate space is continuing to experience tight market fundamentals, with vacancy rates at 4.7%, which he said speaks to the need for more industrial space stock.
In this exclusive SCMR interview, he expands on the research findings.
SCMR: Your report – "Reverse Logistics Stress Test: Holiday E-Commerce Spike Will Lead to Record Returns – suggested that e-commerce would make a profound impact on reverse logistics. How did that play out upon reflection?
Walaszek: According to the National Retail Federation (NRF), 2020 online holiday sales amounted to $209 billion. Based on the 30% return rate for ECOM holiday sales, it's estimated that returns totaled $63 billion, which is slightly lower than our estimate in December. Given the opacity of returns, there isn't a precise tracking to know exactly how much was returned. With that said, this continues to be a major challenge for retailers and 3PLs who need to manage the supply chain around reverse logistics. However, we know that while bricks & mortar average return rates are around 8%, ECOM average return rates are closer to 20% and holiday season ECOM average return rates hit around 30%. Given the tremendous growth in ECOM as a percent of total retail sales, we clearly expect total returns to grow disproportionally with this increase in ECOM sales.
SCMR: What other lessons can logistics managers takeaway from that experience?
Walaszek: There are software providers like Optoro and Narvar offering a more efficient returns experience by leveraging consumer-use data, product/packaging design and operational data to better understand why an item was returned and integrated into the returns process. This prompts prompt the operator on how to handle the return based upon the item's condition. Retailers may utilize these platforms to handle the complicated world of reverse logistics, protect their bottom line and minimize product depreciation.
SCMR: What regions of the nation will be under the most pressure in this regard?
Walaszek, It's logical to think site selection for RL locations would be in lower rent regions and not as close to dense populations as this has been the trend for last mile and infill sites for the past few years and continues to drive many forward logistics site selection decisions. However, not many retailers dedicate facilities to reverse logistics. Reverse logistics is very seasonal in the retail industry and holding that much dedicated space year-round doesn't make sense unless the operator has consolidated reverse logistics or dedicated their business to reverse logistics. Therefore, liquidators are a good example of year-round beneficiaries of reverse logistics. In decades past these liquidation sites, like retailer central/regional distribution center sites, were centrally located. In more recent years, even liquidators are considering bifurcating single site businesses into East / West regional sites. And because their processes are often touching individual products for dispositioning, they do not necessarily require class A buildings. Markets that are positioned in proximity to densely populated metro areas: Inland Empire, Dallas/Ft. Worth, Chicago, Indianapolis, Atlanta, Los Angeles, New Jersey, and PA I-78/81 Corridor to name a few.
SCMR: What industries must make the greatest adjustments?
Walaszek: Retail and 3PLs vis à vis the utilization of tech platforms to leverage consumer-use data to better understand why an item was returned. The tech industry (Optoro and Narvar) will also need to adjust their offering as returns grow every year.
SCMR: What advice do you have for supply chain managers seeking to anticipate the next "black swan" event?
Walaszek: Visibility is a key challenge. Not knowing how much and what is coming back into the supply chain makes it difficult for retailers to handle returns. In forward logistics, retailers communicate to their distribution centers (DC) what is inbound from their vendors and communicate to their stores what is inbound from the DC. This transparency enables better planning of store staff levels needed to move products from dock to shelf just in time to make the next sale. In reverse logistics, by contrast, retailers don't know what products and how much of each will be sent back from where and by what method, preventing adequate planning. This lack of transparency causes challenges that translate into higher costs from the retailer. It becomes a cost-control challenge and an environmental one as well.
SCMR: How do shippers strike a balance?
Walaszek: Retailers are attempting to balance consumer demand with sustainability while providing a seamless returns experience to protect their brand and customer loyalty. Many retailers do indeed contract with 3PL providers (XPO, Geodis, FedEx, UPS, NFI and many others) for their returns management to free up premium space for forward logistics. This is a viable option for retailers that have a thin supply chain network and allows them to focus on other aspects of their business. 3PL companies are capable of a wide array of services, and returns management falls within their purview.
Patrick Burnson, Executive Editor
Mr. Burnson is a widely-published writer and editor specializing in international trade, global logistics, and supply chain management. He is based in San Francisco, where he provides a Pacific Rim perspective on industry trends and forecasts. He may be reached at his downtown office: [email protected]


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The Fizzco Rifle Bot may be the standard Fizzco robot you encounter, but they can be tough to kill, and can be a pain with their constant barrage of attacks. They tend to stay back from close range attacks, preferring to shoot salvos of electric based attacks that travel in a line towards the target. Since the shots tend to lead the target a bit, you must change direction or othewise avoid the projectile attacks. Fizzco bots are resistant to many types of weapons, so be sure to choose weapons like the Pulse Mine or Charge Beam, or other electric based weaponry.
The Fizzco Blade Bot is a faster variant of the Fizzco Robot that forgoes projectile attacks for speedy slashes with its vibro blade. Not only do they have the ability to rapidly attack and slash at nearby foes, but they also have great dodging capabilities, and will often avoid your shots, requiring larger radius explosions to deal with them. Having Weapon or Epic Amps that deal electric damage is a great way to stop them in their tracks, coupled with electric or explosive damage.
The Fizzco Bomb bot is a bipedal robot with a large cannon attatched to the upper body. These bots will try and flood the area with electric bombs, and will usually aim at locations you frequent, in an attempt to discourage you from certain traversal methods. They will also fire beams of constant energy, similar to the OD Wingers. As the Bomb Bots are pretty tough to defeat, plan on using high damaging weapons to take them out before they can cause too much havoc.
The Fizzco Tank Bots are among the toughest and nastiest enemies in the game. Even the most powerful weapons in your aresnal won't kill these bots outright. The Tank Bot will alternate with flooding traversal routes with electric traps, launching homing missiles from its side, and rapidly jumping from area to area. This can make trapping it with deployable weapons like the Pulse Mine hard, so attempt to soften it up with a Freeze Bomb first before using your best weapons to bring it down.


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Facebook's 'legacy contact' feature allowing users to appoint digital heirs
Facebook will now let you appoint a digital executor to your social media account for when you pass away. Earlier this year, Facebook announced it would be creating a feature called "legacy contacts". This meant that any of the 35 million UK Facebook users would be able to appoint a friend or loved one to maintain their social media account after they die.
As of today, the feature is now live in the UK – meaning you can appoint your social media heir today. If you want your account to be deleted upon your death, you can flick that switch too – although someone will still need to inform Facebook that you've moved on. Facebook's previous policy was to freeze a profile upon death allowing them to serve, they claimed, as a memorial.
The network, which has almost 1.4 billion users worldwide, had received "hundreds of thousands" of requests since it began "memorialising" pages of those who had died in 2007. Anyone nominated as a legacy contact will be able to write a post that's displayed at the top of the profile and change profile images on the page. They will even be allowed to accept or refuse new friend requests on behalf of the deceased.
The online executor will however not be able to edit what the deceased already posted, what friends continue to post on the page, or remove tagged images. Nor will they be able to delete the account. "We try to make it clear that the legacy contact won't post as you. It's a caretaker – only acting on your behalf in very specific ways," Facebook's product manager Vanessa Callison-Burch, told Mirror Online.
The legacy contact may be able to monitor your account, but any private messages will not be passed on. "We respect the privacy of all those contacts. It didn't make sense to include those messages," Callison-Burch said. Facebook pages after death are not without their controversy. Earlier this year, the social network pulled down the profile of Germanwings pilot Andreas Lubitz following the tragedy in the French Alps.
Feasibly, it could fall to the legacy contact to deal with such an issue – if a controversial page is memorialised. But the social network says it is staying at arm's length. "Facebook as a company isn't in the position to make decisions on behalf of the account holder – or their family," said Callison-Burch. Facebook has issued a five step guide to naming loved ones as legacy contacts.
To name a friend or relative, just click the options button in the top right, select the security option and then type in someone's name. Click Add and then the message button, which will send your chosen person an message, giving them the right to edit your page in the event of your death.
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Minimizing latency can enhance situational awareness in tactical ground vehicles
The 360SA Video Management System. Curtiss-Wright image.
By Peter Green and Richard Pollard
An industry perspective from Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions
Through-armor video systems provide in-vehicle crews of manned and remote crews of unmanned ground vehicles with critical visibility and situational awareness. This vital visual information needs to be accessible as close to real-time as possible. Delayed video images can make warfighters unaware of an approaching enemy, an impending man-made or natural obstacle, or the unsafe proximity of a warfighter or civilian outside the vehicle, until it's too late to appropriately or adequately respond. These risks increase when vehicles are moving quickly and when they include large and dangerous moving parts. It doesn't take much imagination to consider the kinds of negative incidents that could occur when video images are delayed.
Video latency can also cause motion sickness for those inside the vehicle. When the images on the display don't match the motion felt in the vehicle, the discrepancy can create inner-ear disturbances that lead to nausea, dizziness, and vomiting.
While the risks to human safety are significantly less when unmanned ground vehicles are used, the remote location of the vehicle driver means the video stream must travel further before it can be acted upon. This distance naturally increases the latency, compounding the dangers associated with delayed video streams. Video latency makes it extremely difficult for operators to have complete confidence that what they are seeing is the reality at the time. The combination of uncertainty and delayed images can cause hesitancy when responding to threats, collisions with obstructions or humans, or unknowingly driving the vehicle into a dangerous situation or landscape.
Three levels of ground-vehicle video systems
Ground-vehicle video systems vary widely in technical sophistication and capabilities, but can be categorized into three levels of sophistication:
The most basic video systems enable operators who are in the vehicle, or operating it remotely, to view the images from one vehicle-mounted camera at a time. These systems provide a rudimentary level of visibility but severely restrict situational awareness.
Multi-display and picture-in-picture solutions enable operators to see images from multiple vehicle-mounted cameras at once. This flexibility considerably increases situational awareness compared to single-view systems, as operators can consider their surroundings on all sides of the vehicle at all times. Operators can choose the optimal combination of camera views for the task or maneuver they are executing.
360-degree video systems give operators the ultimate level of situational awareness – blending accurate, fully stitched images from all vehicle-mounted cameras into a seamless, panoramic image that most closely resembles what the human eye sees. These images can further be enhanced with sensor fusion, data overlays, augmented reality, and so on to offer enhanced situational awareness, which leads to increased mission effectiveness.
Overcoming technical challenges
The key to reducing end-to-end latency in a video system is to reduce latency in each video system component, from cameras to video distribution and management units to displays. A British defense ministry study found that military-vehicle drivers could safely drive a vehicle through a visual display when the overall video system latency is 40 ms or less. A recent breakthrough in rugged deployed video situational awareness for manned and unmanned ground vehicles now makes it possible to provide a 360-degree through armor video-
management system that delivers <30ms
latency performance. Compared to alternative video situational-awareness and drivers visual enhancer (DVE) solutions that deliver >60ms latency, this level of system performance achieves the "sweet spot" of glass-to-glass latency to support driver aid and situational-awareness video at full HD resolutions.
An example of a video-management solution for through armor is Curtiss-Wright's 360SA Video Management System (Figure 1).
[Figure 1 | The 360SA Video Management System is aimed at use in closed-hatch operation of tactical vehicles. Curtiss-Wright image.]
The 360A combines a low-latency video management system with a full-HD video ground mobile command control system and integrates projected capacitive (PCAP) rugged touch screen displays with a scalable, rugged video gateway and a video format converter. The MOSA [modular open systems ap-
proach] design is "camera-agnostic" and supports 20 x DS/HG/3G-SDI, 4 x composite/YC, and 1 x HDMI.
Peter Green serves as an engineering and business development director for Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions.
Richard Pollard serves as a senior product manager for Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions.
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Samsung Galaxy S10 is expected to come in three variants and all three of them will be different from each other from specs to prices. Today, a well-known tipster, Evan Blass on Twitter provided some of the key specs that we may see in one of the Galaxy S10's variant.
The information reveals that a specific model will feature 'Infinity-O' display, Ultrasonic, in-display Fingerprint sensor, Triple rear camera and One UI (Android 9). Though there's no confirmation about which variant of the S10 will wield these specs but it may be the low-end model because Samsung yet unveils its new infinity display which will be installed on the top tier model of S10. https://twitter.com/evleaks/status/1062313739842654208 https://twitter.com/evleaks/status/1062327095748165632 Note: This information is based on the respective source, and the specifications provided here may not meet the end product.


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Az Odocoileus az emlősök (Mammalia) osztályának párosujjú patások (Artiodactyla) rendjébe, ezen belül a szarvasfélék (Cervidae) családjába és az őzformák (Capreolinae) alcsaládjába tartozó nem.

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A nembe az alábbi 2 élő faj és 5 fosszilis faj tartozik:

öszvérszarvas (Odocoileus hemionus) (Rafinesque, 1817)
fehérfarkú szarvas (Odocoileus virginianus) (Zimmermann, 1780) - típusfaj

†Odocoileus brachyodontus
†Odocoileus dolichopsis
†Odocoileus laevicornis
†Odocoileus sellardsiae
†Odocoileus lucasi (Hay, 1927) - ez utóbbit korábban, azonban tévesen Navahoceros fricki nevű fajként írták le.

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Mammal Species of the World. Don E. Wilson & DeeAnn M. Reeder (szerkesztők). 2005. Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3. kiadás)

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Hamden police dog collapses after assisting in bust
Ann DeMatteoSpecial to the Post-Chronicle
HAMDEN — A police dog collapsed after biting and fighting with a suspect Tuesday night, but indications are that Hank will be barking his way back to work soon.
Hank was still being treated at the Central Hospital for Veterinary Medicine on Wednesday, and he was expected to go home to his handler, Officer Michael Nawrocki, on Thursday, said Lt. Frank McDermott, the trainer and supervisor for Hamden's four police dogs.
Hank and Nawrocki were looking for a man, Christopher Barbiuto, who had allegedly assaulted his girlfriend at about 10:30 p.m. on Concord Street, Sgt. Anthony Diaz said. When police arrived, the woman was outside her home, crying. She said she was assaulted by Barbiuto and that he also pushed a 16-year-old girl who attempted to intervene, Diaz said.
Barbiuto drove away from the woman's home, and then was spotted by Sgt. John Sullvan running from his car in the area of Westside and Pleasant drives, Diaz said.
Nawrocki and Hank tracked Barbiuto to where he was hiding under the deck of a single-family home. Barbiuto was uncooperative and refused to obey Nawrocki's commands, so after numerous warnings, Nawrocki deployed Hank, a 4-year-old German shepherd, Diaz said.
Hank bit Barbiuto, who fought with the dog for a short time. Barbiuto was eventually taken into custody with the assistance of several officers, Diaz said.
Barbiuto, 40, of 155 Westside Drive, was charged with third-degree assault, criminal attempt to commit third-degree assault, second-degree reckless endangerment, disorderly conduct, interfering with an emergency call, third-degree criminal mischief and interfering with police and resisting.
A short time later, when Nawrocki was taking Hank out of their cruiser, Hank collapsed to the ground and was in severe distress, police said. He was taken to the veterinary hospital, and is expected to recover.
McDermott said that Hank may have been dehydrated after suffering from a "stomach bug."
"Despite being sick he rose to the occasion and made a great apprehension. He put everything he had into it. Because he exerted himself so much he was pushed to the point that he collapsed," McDermott said.
McDermott and Police Chief Thomas J. Wydra said police dogs work very hard and are willing to do anything for their handlers.
"I think this incident is a great example of how valuable dogs are to police work," said Wydra. "Hank's commitment and dedication can certainly be encapsulated in this one incident. He worked almost to the point of death."
Hank has been on the job for just more than a year and has been responsible for at least one burglary arrest and has been involved in several narcotics searches and seizures, Wydra said.
Ann DeMatteo
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In NSW it appears that the poor old LCP cannot take a trick. Greiner made the mistake of activating an ICAC, (Independent Commission Against Corruption) and he got done. Labour's Wran refused, and he became the longest serving premier (although a somewhat smelly one). LCP's Barry O'Farrell repeated Greiner's mistake, and now he is history.
So why does it all go so wrong for the LCP? Why did ICAC finish with Obeid & Co and their $100,000,000 proceeds of crime corruption so quickly and move on to the rather trivial $2,000 bottle of wine of O'Farrell? Maybe it's just that all the top judicial positions have been filled by the Labour Party during it's dominance of the Legislature?
And now ICAC are on gold. Real estate in NSW is a political rort. The only way to get a new house is from one of the big building companies. And the building companies bribe the government to keep it that way.
Clive Palmer is a wealthy owner of Australian Mines. He has started his own political party (Palmer United Party = PUP) and has personally won a seat in the House of Representatives in Australia's Federal parliament, and his party controls three Federal Senate seats. PUP occupy s a very strategic position in the Australian government.
There are three major media networks in Australia. (1) The ABC is a government owned radio and Television network, (2) Fairfax Media is a once great, but now fast disappearing newspaper network, and (3) the NEWS network of newspapers, dominated by the Murdoch family. In addition there are three TV networks and a few radio networks. (1) and (2) are primarily "Liberal" networks that strongly support the Opposition Australian Labour Party (ALP). NEWS currently supports the government (aka "The Coalition").
Both the ABC and Fairfax are giving PUP a very easy time. NEWS on the other hand is highly critical of Palmer, and appears to only publish detrimental information.
Perhaps the ABC is concerned that the Coalition might curtail it's budget. PUP would probably be in a position to frustrate that ambition.
Radio announcer Allan Jones is the most influential radio jock in Australia. Sort of our Rush Limbeaux. The latest subject is the electoral commission.
The voting system in Australia is: we attend a polling station, (usually in a church or school or suchlike), identify ourselves to one of the staff there, they look for our name on a list, if they find our name they provide us with a voting paper and cross our name off the list. We then go into a booth, which has a pencil and a stand up desk. We write what we like on the voting paper, then drop it in the ballot box.
According to Jones, about 20 years ago we had a system whereby voters were sent a letter a few days before election day which directed the voter to a particular polling station. The voter had to attend only that station to cast a vote. Nowadays, in my electorate, we get no letter and I can attend any one of about twenty polling stations, get crossed off a list, given a voting card, go into a private booth, mark my preferences, then deposit the vote in a large sealed box.
Voters can "multiple vote" and that, apparently, happened to the tune of around 8,000 votes at the latest election.
Voters can "false vote" by wrongly identifying themselves as a person who has not yet voted at that polling station.
Voters could possibly draw up their own vote cards, and drop multiple vote cards in the ballot box.
I would suggest that computer linkups be made between the polling stations, so that once a particular person has voted, he cannot vote again. "False votes" could be discouraged by having CCTV records made of people presenting to vote. Multiple vote cards could be stopped by using high tech printing similar to that used by the mint.


In the world of makeup, it can sometimes be overwhelming to find the perfect eyeliner for you. There are so many different types of liners out there.
There are pencil liners, liquid liners, gel, felt tip or you could even just use a smudge of eyeshadow. On top of all that, the brush size you use will have a different finish too. No one eyeliner is better than the other. It's just a matter of what look you want to achieve.
Liquid eyeliner is probably the most common used eyeliner because of its precision finish. The tale of the eyeliner wing can be as thin as your brush can be.
Recently, felt tip liquid eyeliner has added more and easier ways to apply eyeliner. Different makeup companies have been coming out with tools to make applying liquid liner more efficient. Stilla has a wonderful felt tip liquid liner that has a great all day wear. It applies effortlessly to your eyelid. It even works well if you have oily eyelids. Waterproof formulas are longer lasting than non-waterproof formulas (obviously), so it's a great option for those that need something that will last all day long.
The firmer your application brush is, the easier it will be to apply. Think of a paintbrush, brushes with more compact hairs or bristles will give more of a precision finish. Brushes with compact bristles are great for achieving that classic cat-eye look.
For some of you, it may be hard to master the art of applying liquid liner perfectly. It really does require having a steady hand. Just like anything else though, it'll become easier with practice so don't give up!
It seems like kohl has been in makeup bags for years. Pencil liner is probably one of the easiest to apply and carry around in your makeup bag. A common look people use a pencil eyeliner for is a smokey eye. You can control how sharp and precise your line is by how sharp your pencil is; the duller your pencil the smokier your look. The one downside of using a pencil liner is that you'll likely need to re-apply more often than if you were to use a liquid. If you're looking for an all-day liner, a pencil is probably not your best route.
Using eyeshadow as eyeliner is a great way to keep your makeup bag compact. You can use a small angled brush to apply your eyeshadow of choice. Applying eyeshadow as a liner will give a smolder finish and is actually easier to blend up into your eyeshadow.
PRO TIP: If you wet your brush first it will give more of a precision finish than a smokier finish. Don't be afraid to play around.
Gel eyeliner offers a high wax content while most eyeliners just contain wax it as a part of their formula. Gel liners are great because they are typically longer lasting! They give that same precise finish as a liquid liner and it's consistency makes it easier to work with.
Looking for that extra sparkle in your look? Glitter eyeliner may be the solution. Typically, the glitter eyeliner comes in a liquid form. You can also use loose glitter if you wanted but the application is a little more complicated. You would need to use a primer or something sticky to act as the glue to hold the sparkle in place on the eye. Glitter eyeliner can really brighten up a basic makeup look.
Colored eyeliners are used a lot on the runways today. It's a great way to really spice up a look without having to change a ton. Colored eyeliner typically comes in the liquid for but you can also find many colors in pencil liners and even ones with glitter!
Which liner is your favorite?
There isn't one eyeliner that is better than another. They all give different finishes and can all be used in a multitude of ways, the possibilities are endless. Make sure to play with all the different types of liners and even different brushes. You might find a new favorite.


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Sweden's Recipharm closing 2 plants, cutting 225 workers
Recipharm has been among the CDMOs that have rapidly expanded to get a global footprint and a wider set of services. With the growth now dragging on earnings, the drugmaker will close two plants in Sweden and lay off 225 workers.
The company is closing a tablet plant in the Stockholm area with about 180 workers, as well as a sachet and stick pack filling facility in Höganäs, Sweden, with about 45 workers. The company said it expects to close the Stockholm plant plant by the end of 2019 and "to have discontinued its involvement in operations" at Höganäsby at the end of 2018 at the latest.
The contractor is negotiating with employee representatives and expects to reach decisions by the end of this year and the timetables. It is also talking with clients about whether they want to transfer their work to other Recipharm facilities.
The cuts are a part of its two-year-old process to make its "Solids and Others" business more competitive. It came as the company reported that adjusted net sales fell slightly in the last quarter, while diluted earnings per share slid to SEK 0.26 ($0.03) from SEK 2.13 ($0.25) a share in the same quarter a year ago. Recipharm said given the results, it will find it hard to hit its earlier earnings forecast for the year.
"We will see immediate efficiency improvements from this change and in the long term, it will allow Recipharm to offer a more competitive manufacturing structure for oral solids," Recipharm CEO Thomas Eldered said in a statement.
The decision to whack the 225 jobs comes just weeks after Recipharm struck a deal to acquire a solid dose products plant in Leganés, Spain near Madrid, taking on 200 Roche workers in that deal. It also negotiated a long-term manufacturing agreement to supply Roche with a number of solid dose products from the plant.
Last year, Recipharm announced it would spend $205 million in a two-part deal with India's Kemwell, getting development operations in the U.S. and an API manufacturing plant in India. That news came on the heels of the Swedish CDMO acquiring a 74% stake in India's Nitin Lifesciences for $102 million that gave Recipharm three manufacturing plants that specialize in small-volume production of sterile injectable products. Additionally, the company snapped up Mitim in Italy, which provides sterile liquids manufacturing services, and bought a Swedish company that focuses on solids.
By Eric Palmer
Source: Fierce Pharma
Colorcon Ventures invests in AI-Driven bio-simulation company VeriSIM Life
Colorcon Ventures, the corporate venture fund of Colorcon Inc., has invested in VeriSIM Life, a San Francisco-based startup with a digital bio-simulation platform that accelerates drug development and reduces animal testing.
A record number of biotechs are going public. Here's how they're performing.
Initial public offerings have fueled biotech's boom. Keep track of them as they happen with this database. Which biotechs create value over time, and which fail? What types of companies are generating the best returns? Who are their top investors? Biopharma Dive is tracking these details in the database which will be updated regularly.
Sanofi cuts ties with Sangamo, sharpening focus on 'off-the-shelf' cell therapy
Sanofi has ended a long-running alliance with Sangamo Therapeutics to develop genetic medicines for inherited blood disorders, among them an experimental sickle cell disease therapy that is in early clinical testing.
The two have been developing complex, personalized treatments, led by a sickle cell drug known as SAR445136. But Sanofi is now more interested in off-the-shelf approaches, which are meant to be more convenient.


Harvard researchers made a mathematical model on how animals develop their stripes in certain patterns.
Georgia Tech researchers came up with a mathematical algorithm that may be the key in understanding how the brain works.
Shinichi Mochizuki's ABC Conjecture proved to be impenetrable because of new terminology and introduction of a new branch of mathematics.
Simulation resulted on a swimming movement of Plesiosaurs as penguin-like.
Ex-MVP baseball star Jose Canseco took to Twitter to express his opinion and directly states that he supports Elon Musk on his ideas on making Mars a habitable planet next to Earth, comparing Musk's and his "great minds."
A new mathematical model for the frictional shear stress of ice explains why ice is slippery.
Recently, mathematicians from Duke University suggest that correct mathematical calculations of the actual tumor growth might help healthcare practitioners deal with the deadly disease.
According to new research, the equatorial electrojet about 60 miles above the surface of the Earth could be disturbing electrical grids near the equator when it amps up.
Experiements in the chamber with the weakest magnetic field on Earth could answer fundamental questions for theoretical physics science.
Retired experimental physicist Leon Lederman is now 92 years old and facing serious health problems and memory loss. So he took to an online auction and sold his 1988 Nobel prize for his co-discovery of subatomic particle called the muon neutrino to cover his costs. The price of Nobel fame online? $765,002.
University of Utah engineers have taken a big step toward computing at the speed of light. Their research will help create the next generation of computers and mobile devices-devices that will be capable of speeds millions of times faster than machines are now.
It may sound silly to wonder if our huge, vast universe is 3D, but that's exactly what scientists are now beginning to question. According to a new study, some scientists now believe that the Universe is really just a hologram.
The best and worst of April Fools' pranks from around the Web.


The 2016 presidential and general elections are the most tense in recent memory. To sum it up, it's not that President Yoweri Museveni, in charge for 30 years, is running again or that his main challenger, Dr. Kizza Besigye is running against him again, for the fourth time. City dwellers, who are stocking up on food supplies, filling up their tanks and planning for the worst, are afraid that the past several months may have shaken up the President's appeal. It's true large crowds have flocked to his challenger's rallies, and indeed his. But it is Dr. Kiiza Besigye who is the comeback kid and suddenly after weeks of campaigning – as one journalist put it – he looks like the "national flag bearer", it's his election to lose.
Thus the most common people – like the car washer on the hill below State House Nakasero, last abandoned by a sitting president in 1985 – are fearful the election may be so close that both sides will resort to violence. The government will send in armed men and the opposition could paralyse the city and countryside with mass protest. Either way, it's bad.
This is the worst vision of what could happen after polling day. It's been aided by months of rather peaceful campaigning by all sides. The most peaceful, ironically, in recent memory also and explains why this election, unlike any other, sits at the threshold of change, of one sort or the other.
Uganda has never had a peaceful transfer of power in its history. It is one of a handful of African countries that typecast the continent as an unstable estate of power hungry despots with no serious agenda beyond large parades and castles of vanity filled with relatives, pimps and serial killers. There was Idi Amin in the 1970s, Milton Obote thereafter, and lately Joseph Kony of the Lords Resistance Army. The last rebel leader never took power, but the greater part of 20 years under Yoweri Museveni signified the change of tune in the 1990s of leaders like him, who sought to stabilise their countries, subdue rebel movements and, while semi-authoritarian, restart the conversation about the return of peaceful civilian rule.
Alas, however, elections under regimes stabilised by revolutionary armies from Ethiopia to Rwanda and successively in Uganda have not been considered competitive. Add to this the removal of term limits and the spread of corruption and patronage, and the years have passed with the same faces on the ballot – without the prospect of political reform.
It is this military to civilian transition, not election every five years, that lurks like a demon from the past in the fears of those leaving the city for the village. The question on their minds is whether the results of a competitive election would be respected – and, if not, will the parties resolve this the old-fashioned way, by shedding blood?
This may explain why, despite leading in every single poll, the president and his men appear panicked ahead of the poll. It's a national dilemma, how to conduct a peaceful handover if it is required when the final tally is announced, on the one hand, and also how to convince the opposition supporters that this time around, President Yoweri Museveni has won the election fair and square, without having to do so by clobbering and shooting them on the street. There are no easy answers.
In fact, it may instead show not the limitations of the country's leaders, but rather of the political system. A military to civilian transition requires more than an election. It depends on reforming the political system itself and providing for things like separation of a professional army from politics. Elections alone won't do.