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New BMW Concept XM-the most powerful BMW M ever to go into series production
At Art Basel's 2021 Miami Beach show, BMW M GmbH is presenting an expressive new vehicle concept on the global stage for the first time. The BMW Concept XM looks ahead to the most powerful BMW M car ever to go into series production, which is set to begin at the end of next year. At the same time, the BMW Concept XM shines the spotlight on standout aspects of the M brand. Electrification underpins an extraordinary driving experience which allows the driver to both glide along in near silence and enjoy the time-honoured pleasure of high performance, M-style. The BMW Concept XM provides a first glimpse of the new front-end design for BMW's forthcoming luxury-class models. It will also introduce its audience to a highly progressive and distinctive take on BMW X model design and an all-new form of luxury and sense of space for the interior.
The series-production model – the BMW XM – will be built from the end of 2022 at BMW Group Plant Spartanburg in the USA, the most important sales market for the new high-performance car. BMW M will therefore be introducing its first standalone vehicle since the legendary BMW M1 in the year it celebrates its 50th anniversary. The BMW XM will be available in plug-in hybrid form only and exclusively as an M model.
The bold exterior styling of the Concept XM reflects the car's exceptional performance attributes: dynamism, agility and precision, plus an all-electric range of up to 80 km. The newly developed M Hybrid drive system in the BMW Concept XM brings together a V8 engine and a high-performance electric motor to develop maximum output of 550 kW/750 hp and peak torque of 1,000 Nm (737 lb-ft). The first electrified vehicle from BMW M GmbH in the high-performance segment is therefore pointing the way for the future of the brand.
"The BMW Concept XM represents a complete re-imagining of the high-performance car segment," says Franciscus van Meel, CEO of BMW M GmbH. "It underlines the ability of BMW M GmbH to break with established conventions and push boundaries in order to offer fans of the brand the ultimate driving experience. The series-production car – the first pure BMW M model since the legendary BMW M1 – also shows how we are approaching the step-by-step electrification of our brand."
BMW M goes its own way in the luxury segment.
The BMW Concept XM sees BMW M GmbH forging a distinctive path in the luxury segment. The car's exterior majors on presence and extrovert appeal. Inside the car, a special take on the driver-focused cockpit for which M models are renowned meets an all-new rear compartment design: with its high-comfort seats and illuminated, sculptural headliner, the M Lounge offers passengers a luxurious retreat.
"The design of the BMW Concept XM is an extravagant statement by BMW M in the heart of the luxury segment," says Domagoj Dukec, Head of BMW Design. "It has a unique identity and embodies an expressive lifestyle like no other model in the BMW line-up."
The front end: progressive design for maximum presence.
The BMW Concept XM debuts the new, progressive front-end design for BMW's luxury-class models, a version of which will be seen for the first time in 2022 as part of the BMW model offensive in the luxury segment. The headlights have been split into two separate modules, a new design feature which creates a visually arresting appearance. The daytime driving light signature in the sharply styled, slim upper module is particularly eye-catching. The horizontal kidney grille sits boldly between the headlights and tapers towards the outer edges, producing a near-octagonal outline that emphasises the front end's dynamic character. The black kidney grille elements are enclosed within an intricate surround and appear almost to be floating freely within a High-gloss Black surface. M-style double bars within the grille add to the perception of width. Eye-catching contour lighting sets off the grille to fine effect, ensuring the striking composition of kidneys and daytime driving lights is immediately recognisable in the dark as well. The new XM logo in the kidney grille and the large air intakes hint at the power of the V8 engine, which teams up with the electric motor to form the M Hybrid system.
M-specific details point to compromise-free performance.
The glasshouse of the BMW Concept XM rises up vertically, accentuating the front end's strong, imposing feel. The colour of the roof contrasts with the black finish of the A-pillars. The windscreen seems to have an even heavier rake as a result, injecting modern dynamism into the front end. Slim LED searchlights have been incorporated into the roof above the A-pillars. The boldly sculpted bonnet extends the contours of the kidney grille back in the form of two power domes. A pair of air intakes in the bonnet mimic the appearance of the LED searchlights in the roof and add extra dynamic flair. Framing the statuesque body at its lower edge are the clean-cut black surfaces of the front apron. Triangular body-coloured blades at the outer edges accentuate the vertical air intakes while emphasising the sporty and robust stance of the BMW Concept XM.
The side view: an expression of unbridled dynamism.
The powerful and heavily contoured proportions of the BMW Concept XM highlight the car's resolutely standalone identity and draw the eye to the coupé-like character of the body. The visually striking front end, long bonnet and stretched, sloping roofline present a characterful two-box design with a distinctive outline. The window graphic narrows significantly as it approaches the rear, enriching the dynamism of the side view.
The two-tone paint finish of the BMW Concept XM further accentuates its distinctive lines: the upper section is in matt gold-bronze, while the lower section sports the Space Grey metallic shade. Below the window graphic, a broad, High-gloss Black line – the "black belt" – separates the two exterior colours. The signature M exterior mirrors give the car a clean-cut and technical, sporty edge. The charging flap rearwards of the front-left wheel is a reminder of the M Hybrid drive system at work.
Throughout the side view, deliberately short character lines, which start off boldly before fading softly, accentuate the car's agile, modern feel. The expressive rear lights extend well into the car's flanks and create an eye-catching transition into the rear. The black cladding typical of BMW X models above the wheels and on the side skirts is very clearly defined and gives the body an elevated appearance. The elongated body sits on 23-inch light-alloy wheels, which bring extra power and solidity to the side view.
The rear : powerful stature and newly interpreted design.
The design of the rear end likewise accentuates the car's powerful stature, and the BMW Concept XM cuts a low and sporty figure from this angle. The rear window is inserted almost seamlessly into the rear end. The fresh interpretation of the design can also be seen in the arrangement of the BMW logo, which is laser-etched into the window below each of the two cant rails. This is a stylistic reference to the BMW M1, to date the only example of a standalone model developed exclusively by BMW M GmbH.
Lower down at the rear end, prominently flared wheel arches draw attention to the car's powerful stance on the road. Extremely slim and boldly L-shaped rear lights extending across almost the entire width of the rear add to the effect. The lights themselves have a dark appearance when not active, giving way to a precise and uniform shade of red when switched on. Dominating the rear apron are the characteristic twin tailpipes of BMW M models. The dual-branch, twin-tailpipe exhaust system employed here reduces backpressure for the V8 engine and also generates the emotionally rich M-typical soundtrack accompanying the engine's imposing power delivery. The vertical arrangement and hexagonal interpretation of the tailpipes breathe new life into this classically iconic feature.
The BMW Concept XM embodies an expressive new vehicle concept: a zero-compromise BMW M with striking BMW X design language.
The new, progressive front-end design of BMW's forthcoming luxury-class models can be seen for the first time on the BMW Concept XM. The slim and iconic daytime driving lights and the eye-catching contour lighting of the kidney grille are the main focal points.
The series-production model – the BMW XM – will be produced from the end of 2022 at BMW Group Plant Spartanburg in the USA, the most important sales market for the new high-performance model.
BMW M GmbH will therefore be presenting the first standalone M model since the legendary BMW M1 in the year it celebrates its 50th anniversary.
The BMW XM will be the first electrified high-performance model in the BMW M portfolio. It will be available as an M Hybrid only.
The newly developed M Hybrid drive system combines a V8 engine with a high-performance electric motor. It generates maximum output of 550 kW/750 hp and peak torque of 1,000 Nm (737 lb-ft).
The drivetrain enables an all-electric range of up to 80 km. The first electrified vehicle from BMW M GmbH for the high-performance segment therefore points the way for the future of the M brand.
Vehicle design: Bold, robust and new – the expressive design of the BMW Concept XM represents an emotionally potent statement beyond all norms and conventions.
Exterior design: The impactful exterior design forms a visually expressive silhouette that exudes presence. The strikingly sculpted surfaces and extravagant lines create a unique design language.
Interior: With its exclusive materials and the luxurious M Lounge in the rear, the cabin reflects the groundbreaking character of the BMW Concept XM. The sculptural, illuminated headliner is a special highlight that gives the spacious rear compartment a sense of extravagance.
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Q: Getting GITHUB Users list I want to get all users list named as abcde using below in postman
https://api.github.com/search/users?q=abcde+repos:%3E1&
it says there are 174 but i only get default 30
I also used curl
curl --location --request GET 'https://api.github.com/search/users?q=abcde+repos:%3E1' | jq '.items[].login'
but here also got 30, how can i get all 174 names ?

A: This is paginated.  If you check the response headers, it gives links to the next page:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
date: Tue, 09 Jun 2020 09:39:47 GMT
content-type: application/json; charset=utf-8
server: GitHub.com
status: 200 OK
cache-control: no-cache
x-github-media-type: github.v3; format=json
link: <https://api.github.com/search/users?q=abcde+repos%3A%3E1&page=2>; rel="next", <https://api.github.com/search/users?q=abcde+repos%3A%3E1&page=6>; rel="last"
access-control-expose-headers: ETag, Link, Location, Retry-After, X-GitHub-OTP, X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, X-RateLimit-Reset, X-OAuth-Scopes, X-Accepted-OAuth-Scopes, X-Poll-Interval, X-GitHub-Media-Type, Deprecation, Sunset
access-control-allow-origin: *
strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000; includeSubdomains; preload
x-frame-options: deny
x-content-type-options: nosniff
x-xss-protection: 1; mode=block
referrer-policy: origin-when-cross-origin, strict-origin-when-cross-origin
content-security-policy: default-src 'none'
vary: Accept-Encoding, Accept, X-Requested-With, Accept-Encoding
X-Ratelimit-Limit: 10
X-Ratelimit-Remaining: 8
X-Ratelimit-Reset: 1591695621
Accept-Ranges: bytes
X-GitHub-Request-Id: xxxxxxxxxxxx

If you check above, there is a link header, its value is link: <https://api.github.com/search/users?q=abcde+repos%3A%3E1&page=2>; rel="next", <https://api.github.com/search/users?q=abcde+repos%3A%3E1&page=6>; rel="last"
. which gives next pages link.  You can follow that.

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DAVID Cameron's 10 years at the top, celebrated last Sunday, have been full of complications and Labour's win in the Oldham by-election added another to the list. It's a wonder the poor chap isn't up the pole by now.
As the fifth change of Tory leader in 15 years, he felt he had first to eradicate Theresa May's "nasty" description of the Tory Party. So, ludicrously, he went hugging huskies and embracing the dubious concept of man-made global warming.
His enthusiasm for minimising CO2 emissions at the current UN environment conference in Paris would be laughable if it were not so futile. This conference is not about containing CO2 – they've been trying to do that for 21 years without result – but about how many billions of pounds the West will pour into the backward nations for having had the cheek to inaugurate the Industrial Revolution.
The estimated 44,000 warped zealots raising France's CO2 output with their fanatical attendance do not seem to mind that the crooks who run the average backward nation will pocket the brass and not even run, let alone blush.
Cameron was perhaps fortunate that one of our worst Prime Ministers, Gordon Brown, forced out Tony Blair, even though that rascal took Britain to war on a false prospectus.
But it wasn't enough to give him a Tory majority, so he then spent five years keeping Nick Clegg sweet. Clegg thanked him by listing 18 Tory policies he had thwarted.
Jeremy Corbyn is nowt but a learner in the tribulations of leadership.
Now with his own government but with too narrow a majority always to feel safe, Cameron is advancing on a broad front of promising reforms, but his job is at best half done.
Brown's monumental budget deficit of £156bn has only been halved and our hitherto admirable Chancellor, George Osborne, is tending to court popularity.
Still, no one in the front line of politics stands better equipped to be Prime Minister than Cameron. But he often seems too presentational, promising far too much and delivering too little.
How can he keep his government together in the referendum on continued EU membership if, as expected, the EU offers mere tokens of independence?
How, allowing for the inevitable risks of war which Corbyn has converted into reasons for inertia, can he show that he is helping seriously to contain whatever the murderous crew in Syria are called – Isil or Daesh?
What is now Labour's mainstream opinion after Oldham? Can anybody possibly say after only a 40 per cent turnout? But how can we account for Labour raising its share of the vote by seven per cent and its candidate attracting a majority of around 10,000 – five times the bookies' best guess? It cannot all be put down to postal vote rigging.
Just who is the Labour voter these days? That is just as much a question for Corbyn as it is for Cameron.
Which brings me to Benn. I always knew Wedgie had it in him. In my view he is one of the four lost leaders of post-war politics – he by becoming the acceptable face of extremism; Michael Heseltine and Enoch Powell through lack of self-control; and possibly Reginald Maudling to hedonism and indolence.
But his son, Hilary, Shadow Foreign Secretary and Leeds Central MP, has proved his metal.
Having worked for Wedgie for four years, I have no doubt that, given his lachrymose tendency, he would have wept with pride at his son's exalted speech on extending the air war to Syria. Pride because of the way Hilary held the House; pride over his argument if not necessarily his conclusion, and not least pride in his sheer guts in standing out against his leader.
Some will say that, in this, Hilary has inherited all of his father's "independence". To my certain knowledge Wedgie spent four years conducting guerrilla warfare against two Prime Ministers – Harold Wilson and Jim Callaghan – from inside the Cabinet.
But Hilary Benn's raw courage has made him Target No 1 in the battle with the irredeemably nasty Trots, anarchists and Lefty zealots that Red Ed Miliband and Corbyn have unleashed on the party.
The 66 Labour MPs who voted for limited air war must keep us closely posted on militant manoeuvres against them. If Benn is not the next Labour leader, then God help Cameron and us all. Labour will have chucked principled and sensible politics out of the Westminster window.
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Kylie Jenner gets bust measured every week
News Agencies | Updated on: 31 July 2017, 10:52 IST
Reality TV personality Kylie Jenner reportedly gets her bust measured every week.
A source told Heat magazine that the 19-year-old reality TV star, who is alleged to have undergone three breast operations in the past, is very proud of her assets, and monitors them closely to ensure they are always looking their best, reports metro.co.uk.
"Kylie knows they're one of her best assets, so she takes special care of them. She has them measured every week for any difference in size or sag, and is immediately at her surgeon's if there's something out of place," said the source.
The "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" star is said to spend $250,000 a year on keeping her breasts perky.
The source added: "Kylie doesn't care about the cost, she only cares about the results and she's very happy. Her breasts are slowly but surely expanding and they look completely natural."
She also reportedly spends almost $10,000 a month on laser treatments to keep her skin looking smooth.
The source said: "She has regular laser treatments with her dermatologist to remove stretch marks, veins, or wrinkly tissue. The laser treatments are very pricey and something that most people do once every few months. But Kylie has it done every week - she spends nearly 10 grand a month."
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Q: C++ App Exceeds Memory But Doesn't Use Virtual Memory I have an application that allocates memory with 'new' and frees them with 'delete' in some parts of the code.
The problem is that whenever it exceeds the memory limit of the system (let's say 2GB), Windows sends a Kill signal to the process.
I think it is not usual since it should use the swap space(I think in windows it is called virtual memory), right?
My application is written in C++/Visual Studio.

A: Here is how you can make it up to 3GB for a process; That is the absolute max you can have it for 32 bit windows apps. Any more than that and you are going to need to use a 64 bit version of windows.
That is a lot of memory. maybe you could consider splitting your app into multiple processes and communicating between them.

A: The OS doesn't kill your app, an unhandled exception does.  You will want to examine your app with perfmon, and watch these counters, Working Set, Virtual Bytes, Private Bytes.  You will get exceptions when your reserved bytes gets close to 2GB.  So your committed bytes and RAM bytes are much less.
Here is a nice article on Virtual Address Space, including committed vs reserved.
The moral of the story, don't try to allocate when the reserved bytes gets close to 2GB, for a 32-bit process.

A: Windows doesn't use signals.  You should get the std::badalloc exception when you run out of memory.  Which, when uncaught, will automatically run the terminate() function.  The exception is visible in the Output window.

A: I haven't looked too closely at this, but you may find the answers you want here:
Can you allocate a very large single chunk of memory ( > 4GB ) in c or c++?


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Cork County Council
Contact Details T: 086 8903154 Email : oshea_jp@hotmail.com
€50,000 for Mallow/Charleville Red Cross through CLÁR funding, O'Shea confirms
O'Shea Welcomes Plans to Upgrade Kanturk Town Park Walkway
O'Shea Encourages North Cork Community and Voluntary Groups supporting Older People to Apply for New €1m Funding Scheme
O'Shea Commends Successful Local Villages in Anti-Litter League Challenge
New Funding to Transport People in Rural Communities to Medical Services – O'Shea
Judicial Council Bill an important step in bid to reign in insurance costs – O'Shea
European Commission will stand behind Irish farmers – O'Shea
The European Commission has launched a new online portal to highlight in detail all the work that has gone into Brexit preparedness, according to North Cork Fine Gael Councillor John Paul O'Shea.
Cllr. O'Shea said: "The new portal will be a very useful port of call for farmers and agri-food operators who want to find out more about the EU supports available [The new portal is located at – https://ec.europa.eu/info/food-farming-fisheries/farming/eu-agriculture-and-brexit_en].
"As Ireland's largest indigenous industry, the Government is particularly aware of the potential impact a Hard-Brexit could have on the Agri-Food Sector across Ireland and in County Cork where it is such an important industry.
"Both the Departments of Agriculture and Business are working closely with officials in the European Commission in respect of flexibilities under both State aid rules and the common agricultural policy.
"Any tariff regime would be extremely serious for Irish exporters, particularly for agri-food exports. That is why we have worked so hard to secure the Withdrawal Agreement that would enable both sides to negotiate a future relationship agreement with the aim of avoiding tariffs and quotas.
"Minister Creed has been working on this issue for some time, and the EU are well aware of the potential impact of a disorderly Brexit on Ireland's economy. This has been part of the discussions from the very start of the Brexit process.
"The EU's Agriculture Commissioner, Phil Hogan, has reiterated the EU's readiness to respond and support Ireland, and we will remain in contact on these issues as the situation evolves. Indeed, the UK's announcement coincides with further discussions taking place at official level between the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the Commission in this regard.
"The European Commission also announced that it has given State Aid approval for national investment in an Irish cheese producing company, Carbery Food Ingredients Ltd.
"The Government will not be found wanting when it comes to supporting the Irish agri-food sector and farmers in County Cork when it comes to Brexit. Unfortunately, however there is no such thing as a good Brexit and preparedness cannot mitigate all of the impacts of a hard Brexit should it occur."
EU Agriculture Commissioner Phil Hogan said: "This is not the first time Irish agriculture has faced a risk of large proportions. In my political lifetime we have had to deal with BSE, foot and mouth, and the recent markets crisis arising from the Russian embargo.
"In all these cases, the Commission dipped into its toolbox to offer strong support, and Brexit will be no different – the same instruments are in place and ready to be deployed.
"There is recognition across the EU of Ireland's vulnerability in relation to Brexit, particularly our beef sector. There must be additional support available for Irish famers. Irish agri-food companies have already been granted state aid relief. My services are making good progress on putting structures in place for transport and logistics, SPS issues, customs checks and all related challenges."
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William Carrington
Born – Herne Hill, 16th May 1880
Died – Flanders, Belgium, 28th April 1918
Nine days after his sixteenth birthday, William Carrington made his debut for Glamorgan in their match against Surrey Club and Ground at The Oval in late May 1896. He had no attachment whatsoever with the Welsh county as at the time, he was a junior professional on the Surrey staff. When a member of the Glamorgan squad was injured on the morning of the match at The Oval, the teenager was drafted in as a replacement.
He duly scored 10 batting at number nine in the order, besides taking a catch, but the drawn game proved to be his only cricket match of note, Despite having represented London Schools, he did not play any further representative cricket and instead appeared in club cricket in the East End.
Carrington was residing in Tottenham when the Great War broke out in 1914. He duly joined the 1st Battalion of the Leicestershire Regiment, and underwent basic training in Cambridge before crossing the Channel on September 10th, 1914. He and his battalion duly became veterans of various actions on the Western Front, including the action at Hooge in 1915, the Battles of Flers-Courcelette and Le Transloy in 1916, as well as the Battle of Hill 70 in 1917.
They subsequently were involved in The Hundred Days Offensive, but sadly on April 28th, 1918 Carrington lost his life during a skirmish in Flanders as the British Army attempted to make further inroads into German-held territory.


Over The Air is our fortnightly round-up bringing you the latest on topics of interest to the software defined radio community, as curated by technology journalist Gareth Halfacree.
The Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers (SARA) has announced a new revision of the Radio Astronomy Software Defined Radio (RASDR) platform, and is offering the resulting shielded LimeSDR enclosure kit to all LimeSDR owners at cost.
Building on the success of previous RASDR implementations, RASDR4 was announced on the Myriad-RF forum and features a ready-to-assemble shielded enclosure for a LimeSDR board, six SMA connectors, passive cooling when used for single-channel receive operations and room for an active cooling fan for multi-channel and simultaneous transmission use, and a DB-15 port for expansion via a future general-purpose input-output (GPIO) kit.
Designed specifically for radio astronomy but also suitable for general-purpose radio use, the RASDR4 kit is available now priced at $75 with US delivery included; SARA members receive priority allocations from production runs.
Those attending this year's FOSDEM event may want to head to Brussels a little early in order to attend a DARPA-sponsored software defined radio hackfest event organised by Thomas Rondeau, former leader of the GNU Radio project, on the 1st to the 3rd of February.
The hackfest aims to look at ways to address the incidental emitter interference problem, an issue in which devices not related to radiofrequency tasks nevertheless generate and emit RF energy which then interferes with legitimate signals. The key feature of the event: the capture, identification, and analysis of as many interference sources as possible.
Full details, including a downloadable problem book, can be found on the official event page.
The LimeSuite project now enjoys continuous integration (CI) through Travis for Linux builds and AppVeyor for Windows builds, courtesy a pull request from hard-working community member Jiang Wei.
Also responsible for bringing MATLAB and Foobar2000 support to the LimeSDR, Jiang has now completed the work to bring continuous integration to LimeSuite. Using Jiang's contribution, which has now been merged into the Master source tree, commits are now built automatically as a means of flagging potential problems sooner rather than later.
LimeSuite also has two shiny new builds waiting in the wings, bringing some minor bug fixes to the Stable tree and adding new resource location functionality to the Master tree.
LimeSuite 16.12.1, the next Stable build to be released, is set to include fixes for compiling the software on Apple macOS and another fix for an overload bug when calibrating the LMS7002M microcontroller. LimeSuite 17.01.1, meanwhile, is set to be the first release to bring new APIs for resource location and image updating, along with the ability to detect the presence of a reference clock when a LimeSDR is connected, chip version dependant CMIX settings for calibration and tuning, dynamic LML clock phase configuration depending on the interface frequency, and support for filtering ConnectionSTREAM by serial.
Windows kernel-level drivers for Myriad-RF devices are now to be formally signed with an official certificate, ensuring their security and putting an end to warning messages and workarounds for same.
Following the receipt of a official signing certificate this week, the process of signing all Windows drivers has begun and should be completed over the coming days. Once fully signed, Windows will implicitly trust the drivers – making installation significantly easier and reassuring users that the code is trustworthy and has not been corrupted or tampered with since it was built and signed by the project.
For those waiting patiently for a LimeSDR board, the announcement that shipping from Crowd Supply has begun will be welcome news – and by the time you read this the first batch will already be underway.
Shipping slightly ahead of the original end-of-January schedule, anyone waiting on a board will receive a notification from Crowd Supply once their unit – or, in the case of higher-tier order levels, units – has shipped. For many countries, this will include fully-trackable postage information; in other countries, the tracking will operate through to the US border. In all cases, international orders will be subject to customs clearance which may add some time on to the delivery schedule.
Paul Clark has publicly announced WaveConverter, a Python tool for the analysis and reverse engineering of captured radiofrequency signals, via a presentation at the Schmoocon event.
Brought to our attention by our friends at RTL-SDR, WaveConverter is designed to process a stored I-Q file and extract data matching user-supplied modulation parameters, framing, and encoding. Filters are included to support processing glitched or corrupted signals, and signal protocols can be stored for future use once determined. The tool is available under the MIT Licence.
Community members in the US may wish to speak to their Congressional representative about the Amateur Radio Parity Act, a bill introduced this month calling for the prohibition of deed restrictions which would prevent radio amateurs from operating.
According to an analysis of the Bill by ARRL, Bill HR 555 is identical to HR 1301, introduced and passed by the House of Representatives in 2015 but cancelled following a lack of support in the Senate. In both cases, the Bills are designed to require the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to prohibit the application of deed restrictions created by homeowners associations designed to prevent amateur radio operations from pursuing their hobbies.
Finally, Norway has kicked 2017 off by beginning the phased closure of the FM radio band, following increased uptake of the Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) standard since its introduction in 2015.
The Norwegian Ministry of Culture began the FM broadcast shutdown on the 11th of January at the auspicious time of 11:11, but the phased closure will take the rest of the year to complete. Other nations are considering following suit, despite Norway's desire to move to DAB being largely a result of its geography and the resulting higher-than-usual expense of national FM broadcast networks: the UK has a schedule in place which will see FM shut down once at least half of all radio listeners use digital equivalents and DAB signals can reach at least 90 per cent of the population.
The Ministry of Culture has not yet publicly announced its plans for the FM portion of the radio spectrum once the broadcast switchover is complete.
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Captain Miltos, born in 1955, has an extraordinary background. He has been on the sea all his life and yet he also holds a diploma in Architecture and he owned an advertising company for 8 years, working between Greece and Italy. He got his first skipper license 30 years ago and he even owned a couple of boats, sailing through the North Mediterranean, Aegean and Ionian seas gaining an excellent knowledge of every harbour, marina, small secluded bays and can tell you about every place worth seeing. He has also taken part in several sailing competitions with a lot of success throughout his career.
Ierotheos is an outstanding sailor and steward, always smiling and cheerful. He is highly attentive and caring for everyone and has a great sense of humor. He is very helpful and at all times will strive to make your time on board the Yacht as pleasant as possible.
He is very experienced being involved with the sea-life all his life, owning, besides his skipper license and a speedboat license, also a professional diving license.
His hobbies are obviously free diving and underwater fishing. He also holds a Marble Sculpture degree and can, therefore, tell you everything about the various temples and statues you are going to encounter.
Breakfast - Selection of fresh fruit, cereals, yogurt, bread/toast, spreads & conserves, pastries/cakes/muffins, eggs & bacon, cold cuts & cheeses, fresh juice, tea and coffee.
Lunch - BBQ chicken drumsticks, Quinoa salad with prunes, goji berries and a plum dressing, sautéed spinach with sesame seeds and fresh bread.
Dinner - Baked whole local fish with a lemon cream dressing, oven roasted rosemary chips, Greek style salad and garlic bread.
Lunch - Linguini Putanesca, rocket, pear & Parmesan salad, grilled asparagus and prosciutto and steamed radicchio with balsamic glaze.
Dinner - Slow cooked pork ribs with sticky plum glaze, roasted sweet potato puree, grilled corn on the cob, slaw salad and blistered cherry tomatoes.
Lunch - Steamed garlic & chili mussels, crunchy bread, mixed bean salad, blanched kale with anchovies and walnut, roast potato wedges.
Dinner - Red wine braised beef neck, mint yogurt sauce, smashed red kidney beans with bacon, green leaf salad, steamed broccoli.
Lunch - Beef tomatoes stuffed with rice, spiced chickpea & pomegranate salad, smoked eggplant and fried zucchini.
Dinner - Prawn satay skewers, sesame noodles, bean sprout, carrot and baby corn salad, steamed cavollo nero and bok choy.
Lunch - Beetroot curry with sweet potato, saffron rice, tzatziki, spinach, red onion salad & goats cheese, naan bread and spicy chutney.
Dinner - Chicken thighs in a mascarpone sauce, roast new potatoes, rocket, cherry tom & avocado salad, honey glazed beetroot & carrot.
Lunch - Creamy smoked salmon tagliatelle, green leaf and caper salad, crunchybread, roast tomatoes with pinenuts.
Dinner - Meatballs in thick tomato salsa, cauliflower gratin, baby kale salad, guacamole and steamed local greens.
Lunch - Pesto crumbed mackerel fillets, salad of wild rice, beetroot & feta dip, roasted sweet peppers.
Dinner - Roast leg of lamb, grilled eggplant & zucchini, mint crème fraiche, buckwheat, tomato & green leaf salad, fried potato chips.


The summer has seemingly disappeared behind us as we enter the final weekend in August. For those putting off getting your fantasy hockey preparation underway, now would be a good time to start. Head to the Dobber Shop and grab your copy of the 2018-19 Dobber fantasy hockey guide now! It includes projected production, projected lines, a bevy of articles, and a whole lot more. It is also updated as new information is available.
Eric Young is on WWE's Smackdown program, which was running concurrently with our mock draft. He can be forgiven for a few auto-picks here.
Roster construction is as follows: three centres, three left wingers, three right wingers, four defencemen, three utility skaters, two goaltenders, seven bench slots.
Scoring like this lends itself to different picks in a different order than you'll see in some other drafts. In this particular format, in 2017-18, Connor McDavid ranked lower than Jamie Benn, Vincent Trocheck was the #2 skater behind Taylor Hall, and Seth Jones was more valuable than Sidney Crosby. Before getting angry in the comments, just understand that this will be unique compared to, say, Yahoo standard formats.
The thought process on some of my picks.
First, I hate drafting in the middle of a round. It's good in the sense that you don't get caught out on runs, but quite often you find yourself taking a player maybe a round or two earlier than you wanted. For example, when we got to the 10th round, we were getting into the range where I wanted to grab Kyle Palmieri. On the other hand, there were other right wingers, and many skaters, still left on the board that ranked ahead of him. But did I want to take the chance of letting him slide another round and go for someone else? I had Clayton Keller queued up behind him and was basically going to choose one or the other. Had I chosen Keller instead, would I have gotten Palmieri in round 11 with 10 picks between? Maybe, maybe not. I didn't get Keller, landed Palmieri, and had to walk away with it. Were I on the turn, or near to it, it would have been an easier decision.
Victor Hedman – Some people might say it's too early, but he was the #3 defenceman in this format last year (#2 was Carlson, whom Hedman should probably surpass this year) and I wanted to try Laidlaw's strategy of grabbing a stud defenceman early.
Vincent Trocheck – In this type of format, Trocheck is a monster. It'll be another season with loads of minutes featuring top-end wingers and top power-play minutes. Sign me up.
John Gibson – This is another instance where picking in the middle of a round both helped and hurt. The goalie run started in round 2 with Vasilevskiy, Andersen, Rinne, and Hellebuyck going off the board, and Bobrovsky and Quick in round 3 before this pick. Had I not taken Gibson, I'm likely going with Tuukka Rask or Antti Raanta as my top goalie, which might be fine but I didn't want to take too big a gamble. Then again, I was forced to take Gibson earlier than I wanted, so again, it's that double-edged sword of being in the middle of a round.
Rickard Rakell and Jonathan Marchessault – Both scoring wingers who should be featured on the top line of their respective teams and can chip in with a lot of hits and shots. That helps provide a safety net for those with concerns about regression.
Mika Zibanejad – It's not talked about often, but Zibanejad is usually good for triple-digit hits in full seasons (he had 92 in 72 games last year). He should play a lot of minutes on a good top line with top PP minutes. Getting him outside the first 10 rounds was a gift.
James Neal – Neal's biggest problem the last couple seasons are his assists. If he skates on the top line with Johnny Gaudreau and Sean Monahan, as well as the top PP unit, that's a problem that should correct itself. If he's on the second line, maybe not. I though it worth the gamble in the 14th round.
Milan Lucic – I know we make fun of him a lot because of his contract, but his shooting percentage was less than half his three-year average. He had his highest expected goals number (via Corsica) since the lockout season, it just so happened to be in a season with a five-on-five shooting percentage under six percent. With his monster hit totals, just 20 goals and 20 assists would be fine. Another gamble worth taking just inside the 200th pick.
Jesse Puljujarvi – I've said before that he's the team's best right winger and I stand by it (though I'll admit Kailer Yamamoto could prove me wrong this year). In a just world, he'll be in the top-6 by November and hopefully top PP minutes with it. At pick 222, it's worth finding out if I'm right.
Tomas Tatar – He had a bad year last year which is why his ADP was depressed. He still has four consecutive seasons of at least 20 goals, two shots per game, and 65 hits, which includes his brutal 2017-18. He'll likely line up with Paul Stastny, which is a fine centre to get him the puck. Even a modest rebound this year should pay dividends.
Ryan Pulock and Nick Leddy – I grabbed Pulock earlier because I think his peripheral contributions will be much stronger and he can do it while being a 35-point defenceman. When Leddy was still there at the end of the draft, I figured why not get myself their PP quarterback.
Those are my thoughts on some of my picks. If you want thoughts on the others, just hit up the comments.
Now, let's look at the rest of the draft.
Brayden Schenn – I'm a big fan of this pick in this format at the Round2/3 turn. With a healthy Vladimir Tarasenko and a (hopefully) improved top PP unit, Schenn could be the Vincent Trocheck of 2018-19. He has legitimate top-5 upside.
Auston Matthews – Here's the long and short of it: If the Leafs split PP units again, we cannot hope for more than 20 power-play points from Matthews. In formats that count hits, it's a huge knock to his value (Matthews has 37 career hits). In formats that don't include hits, he's probably a top-10 pick, but that, along with the PP uncertainty, is why he slid so far. If all breaks right, though, there clearly is upside to grabbing him early in the third round.
Vladimir Tarasenko – I was rattled he got snagged; I took Joe Pavelski three picks later and had hoped for Tarasenko. Tarasenko had what would be called a down year and he still managed both 30 goals and 30 assists with over 300 shots and a hit per game. Like Schenn, if that power play turns around for the Blues, and Tarasenko is healthy, there's upside even as a mid-fourth round pick.
I'm sure some people are a bit confounded on Parayko, the guy not on the top PP unit, going ahead of Pietrangelo, the guy on the top PP unit.
Here's the thing: Parayko had 80 more hits and the same number of takeaways in 2017-18 as Pietrangelo. Yes, Pietrangelo has the production edge, but Parayko has the peripheral edge. Also, if Parayko's shooting percentage were to ever improve (he's shot under 3 percent in back-to-back seasons), he's a 40+ point defenceman with 200+ shots and triple-digit hits/blocked shots. That's valuable.
Little-known fact: Hischier was just the fourth teenager since the 2012 lockout to finish a season with at least 20 goals, 30 assists, and 180 shots. The others are Nathan MacKinnon, Jack Eichel, and Clayton Keller. Hischier accomplished this with just six power-play points. Assuming he moves to the top unit, there is a lot of production upside here. Not to mention he chipped in 56 hits, which isn't mind-blowing, but won't hurt a fantasy roster, either. If he's attached at the hip with Taylor Hall all season, at all strengths, there could be a big year in store.
The Buffalo Rasmuses (Rasmusi? RasmusiI? Rasmii?) had a massive gap in ADP, with Ristolainen going 69th overall and Dahlin in the 12th round. I have written recently that I think Dahlin will be over-drafted but this draft slotting is a lot more palatable. Were he to be drafted where he's been picked in some mock drafts and in other rankings, he would have been in the same range as Ristolainen, Tyson Barrie, John Klingberg, Mark Giordano, and Colton Parayko. To put him in that company right away is a mighty lofty expectation.
There is a reasonable chance that Eberle lines up on Mat Barzal's right wing both at even strength and on the power play. They need to replace Tavares on the power play, and just moving Barzal into Tavares's role and Eberle into Barzal's role seems to make a lot of sense. Eberle isn't a stat-stuffer, which is why he was taken just inside the top-200, but we could see 30 goals and 60 points from him this year.


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Suzanne Perlman (18 October 1922 – 2 August 2020) was a Hungarian-Dutch visual artist known for her expressionist portraits and landscape paintings. Her bold use of colour has its origins in her early paintings of the tropical island of Curaçao, where she moved with her husband in 1940 to escape Nazi persecution. Her expressionist style developed under the tutelage of Austrian master Oskar Kokoschka in the late 1950s, with whom she worked in Salzburg in the 1960s. Reviewing a 1993 Exhibition as his Critic's Choice in The Times, John Russell Taylor, art critic and author, wrote that "(Perlman) captures the particular feel of the place while abating none of her expressionist dash".

Perlman studied at Columbia University School of the Arts, Instituto Allende and at Saint Martin's School of Art.

Life and work

Early life
Perlman née Sternberg was born in Budapest in October 1922 into a Jewish family. She lived with her brother, Sigmund, and her two parents, Abraham and Elisabeth Sternberg. The family owned an art and antiques gallery and Abraham had an avid interest in the works of young Hungarian artists, discovering and promoting many of them, including Pál Fried. While still at school, Suzanne would help her parents to sort and catalogue a collection of museum postcards by celebrated artists – an experience that Perlman saw as her early training and inspiration. She left school at 13 after her father died.

In 1939, at the age of 17, she married Heinz Perlman, a businessman, and moved with him to Rotterdam, Holland. Soon after arriving, tensions in Europe were rising. After coming in with the lowest tender to supply grain to French troops behind the Maginot Line, Heinz was summoned by telegram to Paris to urgently negotiate the deal and was told to bring his wife. Suzanne described this call as the one that saved their lives. They arrived in Paris on 11 May 1940, three days before the German bombing of Rotterdam – "One of the first hits of the Nazi bombardment of Rotterdam was my husband's office building". Amidst the chaos, the couple managed to reach Bordeaux and board what was to be the last vessel to leave Europe on the day of the French Armistice of 22 June 1940. In August 1940, they arrived in Curaçao and settled in its capital, Willemstad.

Early works and Curaçao
Unable to communicate in Papiamento, the local language, Perlman expressed her admiration for the island and its people through art. She gravitated toward portraying ordinary working people of the island such as street vendors, domino players in the street or ritual dancers. For some years, with her husband, she ran an antiques business; her studio being in the attic above. Perlman had her first major solo exhibition at the Curaçao Museum in 1961.

While living in Curaçao in the 1960s, Perlman was selected to attend a workshop run by Oskar Kokoschka in Salzburg. After the workshop, she was selected to work alongside him in his studio which had a seminal impact on her work and expressionist style. Suzanne is quoted saying of Kokoschka: "He had an amazing dynamic and said to me 'Technique you can learn, but the moment of vision cannot be taught'".

New York
From the early 1950s, and until her husband died, the couple lived in New York City where Suzanne studied at the Art Students League of New York, first in 1955.

Likely immersed in the burgeoning abstract expressionist movement, Perlman painted her first known abstract expressionist work, Untitled, in 1950. Later in New York she was a pupil of Sidney Gross, a painter, from whom she drew inspiration and produced abstract works still brimming with the Caribbean palette of the Dutch Antilles.

London
Perlman moved to London in the 1980s to be closer to her family after the death of her husband in 1983. Moving to London was a renaissance in her life and her art: "I began to paint immediately. As an outsider, there was an amazing quality in what I saw – I had to communicate this sense of wonder."

In 2014, David Glasser curated the exhibition Suzanne Perlman, Painting London, at the Ben Uri Gallery in London, (30 April – 17 May 2014). Glasser described her London work as "part Arcadia, part metropolis, part fantasy and part documentary. Her subjects include summer revels and autumn blooms in London's parks; traffic-laden busy thoroughfares; Covent Garden nightlife; booksellers on a glowing Southbank, and architectural vistas of the Houses of Parliament, Trafalgar Square and St. Paul's."

In 2018, Perlman had her first retrospective exhibition in London held at the Dutch Centre. It was awarded the Critic's Choice by Jackie Wullschlager of the Financial Times who described Perlman's work as "expressive, visionary [and] deeply engaged with the modernist tradition".

Collections
Works by Perlman are present in major museum collections, including:
 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
 Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
 Curaçao Museum
 Parliamentary Art Collection (House of Lords)
 Ben Uri Gallery, London
 Museum of London
 Dohány Street Synagogue (Jewish Museum of Budapest)
 Jewish Museum London
 Joods Historisch Museum, Amsterdam
 Museum Gouda, Holland
 Ruth Borchard Collection
 Queen Beatrix, the Queen Mother, Netherlands Royal Collection
 El Museo del Barrio, New York

Further reading
David Glasser, PERLMAN Suzanne, Philip Vann (2014), SUZANNE PERLMAN - PAINTING LONDON, Ben Uri Gallery And Museum

References

1922 births
2020 deaths
20th-century Dutch painters
20th-century Hungarian women artists
21st-century Hungarian women artists
20th-century Dutch women artists
21st-century Dutch women artists
Alumni of Saint Martin's School of Art
Abstract expressionist artists
Art Students League of New York alumni
Artists from Budapest
Columbia University School of the Arts alumni
Dutch emigrants to Curaçao
Dutch expatriates in the United States
Dutch Jews
Dutch women painters
Expressionist painters
Hungarian emigrants to the Netherlands
Hungarian Jews
Hungarian women painters
Hungarian expatriates in the United States
Recipients of the Order of Orange-Nassau

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Graph of the Day: Electric cars are coming
Sophie Vorrath 28 February 2017 0
As Tesla approaches production of its mass-market Model 3, an increasing array of better and cheaper electric vehicles are also being rolled out around the world by both new and traditional car makers – including a new and improved, and still pretty cheap, version of the Nissan Leaf.
This trend, which is neatly depicted in the Bloomberg chart below, suggests a turning of the tide in the long and troubled ICE cars vs electric cars story. As the CEO of International Lithium Corp, Kirill Klip, puts it, "we are talking here about the magical 20/200" when $US20,000 buys you an EV with a better performance than a BMW and a range of around 350km.
"It means that not only the cost of ownership for EV is lower than a comparable ICE car, but a beautiful electric car is cheaper and better than anything ICE (Internal Combustion Engine) can offer," Klip said on his blog this week. "We are talking here about all cars being electric much faster than you think."
Is this true for Australia, though, where the slow uptake of electric vehicles has been driven by a vicious circle of lack of incentives or support infrastructure, an increasingly restricted range of available local EV models, and cost.
As Phil O'Neil, a senior associate, new energy, at Advisian, said last September, "electric vehicles will become increasingly attractive from an economic perspective," even in Australia. But we could still be looking at "a couple of decades to change-over from full petrol to full electric, which reflects the normal turnover in the personal car fleet," he said.
"However, the rapid adoption of car sharing and autonomous vehicles has the potential to reduce this period dramatically."
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Ken Dyer says
Reference to carsales.com.au reveals that out of more than 220,000 vehicles for sale, only 67 are electric. This is an improvement from about 2 months ago, when 55 electric cars were for sale. Of these for sale, over 50 are Teslas, with the balance made up of BMW and Nissan. Australia is very badly served by the car industry for electric cars, and it wont change any time soon under the current Federal Government.
Certainly sounds like another good angle for labour and greens to take to the next election
David Pethick says
Ken, Ian – I like electric vehicles as well, but it seems to me that the market is working just fine. Each of the cars that has been certified for use of Australian roads is available for sale. I don't agree that the federal government should be promoting one type of drivetrain over another. What's the benefit to Australia?
A few benefits include
No need to import liquid fuels at great cost, reducing the trade deficit
Less noise in cities in particular. (esp buses)
Lower emissions, esp as grid becomes more renewable
Kevfromspace says
You forgot to mention
– no tailpipe emissions (important in places like Newcastle and coal mining towns where the air is horrid), which will put less pressure on australian hospitals and health sector
– no fuel costs & service fees for the consumer
– potential for grid support (with the help of AEMC rule changes and companies such as Reposit Power), ancillary services, demand management and reduced network expenditure
– assisting australia reach its Paris emissions target (which is impossible under current policy frameworks and political gridlock on this issue)
– lowering the crash rate (Modern EVs have fantastic 0-100 acceleration, assisting lane switching, and of course Teslas are equipped with autopilot software which reduces the crash rate by over 40% vs human drivers)
trackdaze says
Add energy security to the trade deficit point from not importing the majority of our fuel.
George Darroch says
Reduced fossil fuel emissions, improved health of its residents?
@sunnywindy:disqus @trackdaze:disqus @disqus_wo77jF1qvH:disqus @georgedarroch:disqus – I accept that EV can make positive contributions in all those areas. I struggle to quantify any of them however.
Put it another way – how much money should the federal government spend to promote EVs in pursuit of these outcomes?
By the way, I'd support an additional tax on the sale of new vehicles with internal combustion engines. I'd just rather see the money raised go into programs where the benefits are a bit easier to quantify (e.g. foreign aid for sanitation projects, saving countless innocent lives for very small sums of money).
Australia imports $2billion of fuel. 90%. ….per month!
Quantifiable enough no?
No, not really. What are you suggesting? Spend $x to avoid $y of oil imports?
Only if one is interested in a good Return on investment.
Just_Chris says
Doctors for the environment have suggested that NSW spends an additional $15 billion a year in healthcare costs due to air pollution.
Even if it was only $1 million, I don't see why we can't tax high emission vehicles more than low emission vehicles. The government is not a profit making organization revenue raised from new vehicle taxes doesn't, IMO, have to go anywhere specific. There are roughly 1.1 million car sold per year. Why can't we tax the top emitting 50% of those new cars by $5,000? $5.5 billion a year would go a long way to budget repair.
Australia is currently shutting down its refining industry. This leads to the rather bizarre situation where we export our oil to Singapore and then buy it back once it is refined. You are also twice as likely to die in Australia from the pollution a car produces than to die in a road accident. I'd be quite happy to import an electric car from the many models available in the uk, as you could do in New Zealand but I can't because Australian law forbids it. I would rather the government choose which drive train than a multinational company that is looking dump cars it can't sell in the eu or USA because of new emissions standards.
Let's get a few facts straight:
* "Australia" doesn't have a refining industry. Large companies like BP, Shell and Chevron have been closing or selling their small, ageing refineries based in Australia and shifting production of crude oil products to larger refineries across SE Asia. It allows them greater margin/lower cost than refining in Australia.
* I'd like to see the source for the "twice as likely to die" statistic, but I'll take it at face value. There were 1,290 deaths on Australian roads in the 12 months to January 2017. Rounding up, you are saying that pollution from cars causes 2,600 deaths per year.
* Let's say that, to replace the entire Australian light car fleet with electric vehicles, we'd need to subsidise the cost of EVs by $10k. With 16m light vehicles on our roads, that's $160b. I'll be generous and say this removes all pollution and there are no more deaths. Assume the subsidy gets us there 10 years ahead of the free market outcome. 26k lives saved at a cost of $6.1m each. How much is a life worth?
* You are being somewhat misleading in mixing up NZ "grey import" laws with a discussion about EV imports. Your NZ neighbour can also import a Hummer from the UK if he wants. I'd suggest that changing that law would see a lot more European internal combustion engine powered vehicles imported.
* Australia has very strict emissions standards and every vehicle needs to be certified for sale according to our laws. I'd be surprised if there were any evidence for your claim of dumping, given that our laws and customs (e.g. left hand drive) effectively require an Australian version of each vehicle to be manufactured.
I like EVs. I just don't see a case for further government intervention in this market.
See my comments below:
Australia used to have sufficient refining capacity to supply its own market but now does not. You are correct, this is simple economics, but my point is there is little benefit for Australia to continue to rely so heavily on oil based transport. Conversely we make all our own power – why don't we adopt policy settings that favor a domestically produced product over an imported one?
The unfortunate thing about air pollution is that its effect can only be estimated based on air quality data and modeled health effects. The WHO do a good job looking at this and they are the source of the 3000 persons per year death rate due to urban pollution but there are a range of estimates from around 2000-6000. This is dwarfed by places like the UK which are estimated that the number is around 40,000. As Australian cities get bigger and more congested this will get worse. I see no reason to wait until the number is 40,000 before we do something about it, especially since it will take 10 years to do something about it.
Subsidising new vehicle purchases has been found globally to be less effective than taxing new vehicle purchases. I don't think we need to urgently replace 100% of the vehicle fleet but I see no reason why we couldn't change the luxury car tax so that a low emission vehicle is considered to be emitting less than 75 g/CO2/km (instead of the 130 g/CO2/km) and to change the bands so that a "high" emitting vehicle is taxed from $50k and a low emitting vehicle is exempt up to $100k. A $51k vehicle might not be a luxury but since the tax would be 30% on every dollar over $50k then it would scale as the vehicle got more luxurious. This would be a revenue generating tax and as far as I see it not really have any massive down side. I could understand there needing to be exemptions for the disabled or certain specialist work vehicles but I see no reason why this tax could be applied pretty broadly including on company cars and work vehicles. I also don't understand why we can't have a long term efficiency standard. The net benefit of this is positive, as in it saves the country money overall. Why, as a nation, we don't do this beggars belief, currently we pay more to have a more polluted country.
There are a significant number of EV's being imported into New Zealand via the grey import laws but I suspect you are right that there are also a lot of high emitting vehicles as well. My point is that in Australia it is not a free market, we do not choose which cars are imported that decision is made by large corporations that are largely unregulated.
Australian emissions standards are lower than both the USA and the EU. Australia only requires diesel vehicles to meet the CAT5 emission standard. This is significantly less stringent than the EU CAT6 standard. When it was determined that VW had been cheating on their emissions test it was very telling that in Australia they were prosecuted under consumer law because they lied rather than environmental emission laws because they where not meeting the emission standard. In terms of evidence that the supply of low emissions vehicles to Australia is being restricted in favor of higher emitting vehicles the latest government draft regulation statement on vehicle efficiency (https://infrastructure.gov.au/roads/environment/forum/) shows (table 3) that the most efficient variant of car models offered in Australia are 27% less efficient than in the UK. Pollution is the classic example of a market failure, to expect car companies to import and sell more efficient cars that have smaller profit margins is unrealistic – As far as I am aware there is no efficiency standard / target in Australia.
Thanks @disqus_DoHRzKpnPg:disqus for your considered response. One of the reasons I enjoy visiting the RenewEconomy website is (virtual) conversations such as this.
I'd be happier with a tax on pollution than a subsidy for EVs. Unfortunately, the politics is tough. The ALP can't introduce it because they will cop it from ACOSS and the unions ("out of touch"). The LNP won't go near it, because it's an additional tax and it won't swing a single vote their way.
Perhaps needless to say, but I don't have much faith in politicians to solve these types of problems.
Hi David, pleasure, have you considered commenting on the current policy document? You can make a personal submission at
https://infrastructure.gov.au/roads/environment/forum/
It needs to be in before the 10th of March but it is essentially an e-mail telling the parliamentary committee what you would like them to do. Last round they had 80 submissions so you will get more exposure of your views there than pretty much anywhere else.
Done. Thanks for the heads-up Chris.
EV Positive says
2010 iMiEV for $13.5k https://www.carsales.com.au/private/details/_/SSE-AD-4593885
Ian Mclaughlin says
There is only one thing stopping the uptake of EV's in Australia– that is they are not for sale. With so many 2-3 or more car families and Aussies voracious appetite for new technology some first serious importer is going to make a fortune!!
Bristolboy says
It's funny how Australia is a world leader in domestic solar and battery storage, but so far behind in EV adoption, especially considering in many markets ownership of domestic solar and EVs are strongly correlated.
aggri1 says
Absolutely agree. I'd be interested in the Renault ZOE, supposed to be a pretty decent EV and of course not-available-here, or the Bolt, or an upgraded Leaf. Alas, not for this backwards colony.
If enough people walked into Renault and demanded the ZOE it would be available in Australia.
"one thing stopping the uptake of EV's in Australia– that is they are not for sale."
I wonder how those 2 EV came to be in my garage then? Total purchase for both was $57k. Have been driving EV for over 2 years now, you're obviously not looking hard enough.
Manufacturers sell what consumers consume … so start consuming EV!
That's interesting what are they? I am not in the market for an EV until I stop towing a caravan with a Ford Territory, my only car, I don't need 2 but as I said lots of people have more than 1 in a family.
It looks like my original reply was censored as it included a link to a blog about towing.
We have an 2010 iMiEV which we purchased 2nd hand for $14k just over 2 years ago. Its ugly however the flipside is that you can park it anywhere. We have been saving $2300/yr as its only $1.20 per 100km to run on offpeak electricity.
Our other EV is an Outlander PHEV which we purchased for $43k new nearly 2 years ago. We've done 22Kkm with an average fuel consumption of 3.4 l/100km. Within the 50km EV range it only costs $2 per 100km to run on off peak electricity. The Outlander PHEV will tow a small caravan up to 1500kg.
Giles says
No one has censored any comment on this story thanks very much.
Just looked up your cars as they are no longer available in Australia it seems but their new cars prices were ridiculous, hence no sales only for the early adopters! I remember them both yes the iMiev is quirky but OK in my view. The outlander is good but my brand new petrol Territory 2015 was $37888 drive away with about $6000 worth of extras mainly towing packages. As I travel less than about 5000KM a year when not towing the caravan it's fuel usage at just under 10ltr/100km, almost all country driving, is quite good for a 2 tonne large petrol SUV. There is, as I said no real option, for a $20,000 EV but there will be VERY soon overseas. However as we pay a up to twice the price for imported cars here than in other markets it will take a while!
Peter Campbell says
I have been driving electric for 8 years. Total purchase price for both was $44k. One was an ex-demo 2012 iMiEV a bit over three years ago, the other was the Daihatsu charade I converted 8 years ago – still going fine on original LiFePO4 battery.
And the iMiEV is not 'ugly' – What an outrageous comment! It is Kawaii! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawaii
Jimbo says
Nissan has a good car in the LEAF but they refuse to sell them in Australia. The Mitsubishi Outlander is a good hybrid. If you see one advertised and you make a beeline for that dealer, they will tell you it is sold, but they have a good diesel one you can have. The dealers make a lot of money from after sales service that is not needed with an electric car. Tesla will change all that.
Calamity_Jean says
"The Mitsubishi Outlander is a good hybrid. If you see one advertised and you make a beeline for that dealer, they will tell you it is sold…."
That's a technique called "bait and switch", and it's illegal in the US (where I am). Can you order one and have it shipped to the dealer, rather than having to wait until the dealer has one in stock?
The thing about the Mitsubishi Outlander is I understand it can actually cost more in aftersales service as it in effect has two drive trains, each with their own challenges.
Bristolboy
It is true what you say. If you can get by on battery alone and not use the petrol motor the costs are minimised. It is for this reason that manufacturers know that the hybrid is a short term solution. The full battery vehicle is the complete solution.
Michael Vorstermans says
The only service item in the PHEV's electric drivetrain is the motor liquid cooling loop, which the manual states should be drained and refilled every 20 years….the ICE needs an oil change every 15K, and the transmission fluid every 45K. Brake wear is so minimal, the pads might last the life of the car.
Kevin Brown says
I want a Chevvy Bolt!! Why won't Holden sell me one? There is a spare factory in SA that could produce a RH drive version!
Scared off by sovereign risk from when Abbott effectively chased the manufacturers out.
Have you asked Holden that? Better still, tell Holden you won't by one of their cars until they sell an EV. If enough people had bought the Volt then the Bolt would be available here. The Bolt is being sold as the Ampera in Europe, there are just simply not enough customers in Australia demanding an EV.
I certainly have asked Holden hoping that they get the message. It's so frustrating. It was designed by Holden's Australian design team and the small SUV design is much more practical than the Tesla Model 3 sedan. I understand that there is no RH drive version yet and it will be a long time before demand is met for the LH drive version.
Perhaps the SA Government could help fund tooling up for a RH drive version and produce it in Holden's Elizabeth plant when it ceases production in October.
A friend tried to buy a Nissan Leaf several years ago. His nearest local Nissan dealer tried to talk him out of it. He went to another local Nissan dealer who happily sold him one. Now he tells everyone which dealer to go to.
No more oil change, no more tune ups. I predict no more ICE-powered small cars made, globally, by Christmas 2018, such is the level of competition between global car makers. Christmas 2018 will be crisis time for Australian energy regulators.
Sounds good but infortunelty they cant produce enough batteries or cars by then.
With battery production roughly doubling year on year they will maybe at a big stretch be in a possition to produce 4million per year by end 2018.
Electric cars will help the grid. Soaking up excess power when its plentiful and discharging a little when the price is high to reduce peak demand.
Trackdaze, THERE WILL BE NO EXCESS POWER! Not after Hazelwood closes. These new Li/Na batteries will have a charge density greater 750mAh/gm, that's 3 times the average Li-ion charge density. This new density level implies a drawdown rate on the output of the remaining coal-fired/gas-fired generators that will be disastrous for AEMO. Trackdaze, I predict that by the time the next Federal election comes along (assuming 7/2019), there'll be ongoing load shedding across Adelaide/Mel/Syd/Bne. These new batteries will reduce the Turnbull government to chaos.
So there is never any excess even at night?
Lets unpack this a little more. Since the announcement of the closure of the 1.5Gw hazelwood to its closure roughly 250Mw of renewables have been installed.
Further, between it closure and end of 2017 another 1.5GW of wind,solar and rooftop. And about 150-200Mw of battery will be installed.
Coal fired NSW was short for a few hours on the hottest day of the year by how much?
Do you actually read the articles on this website?
There is only one real barrier to the mass take up of 100% electric vehicles in Australia, and that is, there is generally nowhere to quickly recharge them! We need fast chargers rolled out around Australia. If every petrol service station had one fast charger installed you would see the transition to EVs quickly accelerate. Yes there are other barriers such as price and model choice, but being able to easily, quickly, reliably and conveniently recharge is the big one.
Most commuters don't travel over 30kms in the average day. This kind of charge ccan easily be obtained overnight at home. The biggest barriers to EVs in EVERY country are availability, variability of vehicle options, costs and consumer awareness.
Yes. Long range EVs are nice but in the meantime, many households with two cars have one that never leaves town and only ever does local trips. That car should be a modest EV like the Leaf or iMiEV (which are actually pretty nice). I go for months on end without driving our petrol car which is only saved from being a waste of space because my daughter can use it.
Brunel says
No need to ban petrol cars then. EVs will outsell petrol cars on merit.
Craig Allen says
There is currently a Tesla X on display on the 6th floor of Myers in Melbourne (with a left side stealing wheel). The sales rep told me the base cost is $160,000 …!
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Dear Sophie,
Thank you for your article!
Please note that my name is Kirill and our company is International Lithium Corp.
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Hi Kirill,
Oh dear. Thanks for pointing that out. Our subeditor was clearly having a bad day! :/
For those who is interested:
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Singh said that the Maldives, being a beautiful country, needs to maintain and enhance its beauty as an attractive tourist destination.
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NEW DELHI: Power minister R K Singh on Saturday assured his Maldives energy minister Hussain Rasheed Hassan India's support the island nation's efforts in reducing dependence on oil imports by developing renewable energy projects, even as he announced plans to power Andaman & Nicobar Islands and Lakshadweep fully on green energy.
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What do the Lins bring to this new ministry? Forty years of experience, knowledge of the people and culture they are reaching. When God asked Moses, "What is in your hand?" he replied, "This shepherd's staff." And what is in John and Florence's hands? The ability to communicate the Gospel clearly, administrative skills, music expertise which will greatly enrich the churches of China, and something far beyond price—a heart for God and desire to reach Chinese for the Lord.
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"Rev. John Lin asked me to consider serving on the Joy Partners Board of Directors in August of 2000. I agreed to serve, having had some knowledge of the Lins' background of faithful service with FEBC for 40 years.
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Joy Partners' vision offers a platform from which to launch a variety of programs tailored to effectively to all age groups. Its stated purpose for existence is "to proclaim the love of God and bring JOY to the world, and to help Christians become better stewards for the Kingdom." It is a pleasure to be serving on JPI's Board with Dr. Sala, president and founder of Guidelines Inc. and to get acquainted with fellow board members Chilin Huang and Synthia Tjio, JPI's president and treasurer respectively."


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What is "Race for the Dragonverse"?
The race for the Dragonverse is an in-game event that includes new islands, dragons, and storytelling. Make sure to check our Youtube channel (link) to see the latest videos!
As you can see in the latest video, it appears that an evil machine is draining the energy of the forests in the Dragonverse. After noticing this horrible device Yggdrasil, the God of nature, was attacked and left powerless. Without him, the forest cannot last very long. You have to save Yggdrasil in order to restore the nature of the Dragonverse and with it the Tree of Life!
Yggdrasil is a God dragon from the Dragonverse who takes care of the natural elements. He spends his days bringing life to the lush, magical forests, creating the perfect conditions for it to thrive. Vegetation grows wherever he steps, and marks on his body reflect the health of the forest: the healthier it is, the more they shine.
How do I save Yggdrasil?
Only the Fae Dragons, disciples of Yggdrasil, would know how to summon a dragon so powerful. Therefore, you need to look for Orbs of the Fae Dragons to summon them first. Some of them will be scattered in the Fae Land Island, while you can obtain others in temporary tournaments or by watching Video Ads. Check out the video for more details.
Part I - The Fae Land Island !
Who are the Fae Dragons?
The Fae Dragons are the disciples of Yggdrasil, the God of nature. Because of their strong connection with the forest, Yggdrasil has commanded them to protect the nature in different islands of the Dragonverse. They are the last chance to save Yggdrasil.
What is the Fae Land Island?
The Fae Land Island is a magical place thought to be safe, where the Fae Dragons go in case of danger. As such, Deus and Gaia assembled a team of expert scout dragons who will search the island for Fae Dragon Orbs. The Fae Land Island will be a Maze island. Be sure to play it to get many Fae Dragon Orbs!
Can I get full dragons in the Fae Land Island?
Yes! As usual, any dragon that you bring to the end of the path will be yours. Make sure to get them, as they will be required for temporary tournaments!
Part I - Event dates?
The first part of this thrilling adventure starts July 6th and will finish on the July 21st.
You will need to collect 100 Orbs of each of the Fae Dragons! Summon the 4 Fae Dragons!
Where can you collect the Fae Dragon Orbs to summon them?
Race for the Dragonverse Calendar!
Important: Remember to summon all of the Fae Dragons as soon as possible. The sooner you do it, the better! Tip: It is important to go to all different Orb sources to make sure you can summon them!
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Cloud Channel Summit: Do VARs Really Need to Go Vertical?
Dozens of cloud vendors and potential channel partners gathered in Mountain View, Calif., on November 7 for the inaugural Cloud Channel Summit. The common goal: Connecting the dots between cloud services providers, VARs and resellers to build new revenue opportunities.
Dozens of cloud vendors and potential channel partners gathered in Mountain View, Calif., on November 7 for the inaugural Cloud Channel Summit. The common goal: Connecting the dots between cloud services providers, VARs and resellers to build new revenue opportunities. But guest speakers — including folks from Salesforce.com, CompTIA, GoodData, rPath and more — frequently debated the path forward. Among the key topics discussed: Whether VARs need a vertical focus to succeed in cloud computing.
"Channel vendors have to get used to the idea of less," said Salesforce.com Senior VP Rod Huddleston, in reference to vendors dealing with a smaller group of channel partners. "If you have stronger relationships that last longer, you can't have as many," he continued. "Cloud opportunities are about picking the right partners and investing in their long-term success." Huddleston led a morning presentation during which he outlined key steps that both cloud vendors and channel partners need to take to build a successful channel program in the cloud.
Vendors Focusing on Customer and Partner Success: Why? Huddleston explained that successful customers lead to successful vendors, and successful partners lead to successful customers. So connect the dots. The success of vendors heavily depends upon partner success.
Be the Market Maker: Huddleston identified three points for cloud vendors to become market makers — create a marketplace for partners, offer supported sales models and provide thought leadership. "I think if you [cloud vendors] don't create a marketplace for partners and just give them the technology, you're missing a really critical step," he said.
Develop a Team of Evangelists: Huddleston described the cloud as "transformative, disruptive and game-changing," which are all terms that can create excitement and uncertainty in the channel. According to Huddleston, cloud vendors need a team of evangelists to inspire channel partners and frame the cloud discussion in a positive light.
The Cloud Channel Summit also included plenty of debate. One key topic of discussion: Do VARs need to go vertical in the cloud services market?
CompTIA Director of Industry Analysis Carolyn April and GoodData Director of Business Development Cody Cmkovich stressed the need for channel partners to become vertically focused. But Peter Chase, VP of business development at Scribe Software, "We give them [channel partners] the prescription to go vertical, but do they have have the resources to do so? I'm not sure we've figured out the vertical play yet," he said.
rPath Chief Technology Officer Brett Adam said he agreed with Chase when I caught up with him after the event. "I really don't think the industry has figured out the vertical play either," Adam said.
Jeff Kaplan, founder and managing director of Think Strategies, organized the summit. Kaplan has a successful track record building and organizing emerging IT communities, particularly in the SaaS, cloud and managed services markets.
Where could the cloud summit go next? Some attendees said there's room for even more VAR and partner participation in the summit. But VARs must also embrace the idea that the cloud creates partner opportunities, noted Amy Anderson, manager of the Cloud Computing Partner Program at IBM.
Cloud and Channels is a debate that will rage on with a wide range of topics to be worked through between resellers, vendors and distributors in the year or two ahead.


Tesla vehicles may be expensive and offer many premiums, but that doesn't mean they should be classified as luxury cars.
Governments and private organizations have various schemes for classifying vehicles. The EPA calls the Tesla Model S a luxury sedan, while the automaker refers to its own car as a premium sedan. Depending on which country you live in, as well as which publications you rely on, car classes can vary widely. For these reasons, it's safe to say that vehicle categorization and classification is highly subjective.
Although Bjørn Nyland is a huge Tesla fan, he's willing to admit that the vehicles have their flaws, and he's also certain they're not luxury cars. Nyland spends a good deal of time showing us exactly why he feels this way. This doesn't mean Tesla vehicles are subpar or undesirable, it just means that each automaker may focus resources on different areas.
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With all of this being said, the Model S is generally referred to as a luxury car due to its high price and the fact that it has interior quality and features that aren't found in most non-luxury vehicles. This surely doesn't put it in the same category as a European flagship sedan. But, with gas cars, the mechanical side of production is much less expensive. These automakers can afford to splurge on exquisite accommodations while still maintaining healthy margins.
Electric cars are not cheap to produce. If Tesla dialed up the Model S interior to match the level of opulence found in a Mercedes or BMW, the already expensive all-electric vehicles would increase significantly in price.
It will be very telling to see if Mercedes and BMW can produce long-range all-electric vehicles with ultra-luxurious interiors while keeping them price-competitive with Tesla's offerings. However, that prospect is still years away. Jaguar has proven it's possible with the I-Pace, so we'll see what the future brings.
Many people have claimed that Model S and X are luxury cars. I disagree. In my opinion, luxury cars have top shelf interior like shown in this video. Tesla themselves call the Model S a premium sedan.


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