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The President of the Provincial Council oif, Unai Rementeria, presents Bizkaia as the gateway to Europe to 75 entrepreneurs from Idaho
At a work meeting in the Chamber of Commerce of Idaho, the President of the Provincial Council talked about the opportunities offered by the Territory to make investments and the specific features and advantages provided by self-government and its having its own taxation system.
Bay of Biscay is a perfect gateway to Europe. With this statement, which is an invitation, the President of the Provincial Council, Unai Rementeria, presented Bizkaia as the gateway to Europe to 75 entrepreneurs in the Chamber of Commerce of Idaho in July. In his commitment to open Bizkaia to the world, Rementeria described the Territory as an attractive place to make investments and carry out projects thanks to self-government and its having its own taxation system. He highlighted stability as one of the main virtues for investors. The main virtue of Bizkaia is political stability. We are a stable government. Bizkaia and the Government of Bizkaia guarantee absolute institutional, political and economic stability, he pointed out.
Bizkaia has excellent international connections by air, sea, rail and road. We are hardly two hours away from the main European financial capitals, such as London, Frankfurt or Paris. And the Port of Bilbao is connected with 900 ports all over the world; it is the largest Atlantic port in Southern Europe, Rementeria explained to the entrepreneurs from Idaho when presenting Bizkaia as an unbeatable gateway to the European market for their products. Moreover, he insisted that it is an attractive territory for investment, since it offers incentives for the development of new projects, especially those which are technology-based, and that the institutions of Bizkaia provide these projects with locations adapted to their needs as well as guidance or access to seed capital and support programmes.
Rementeria stood back from other less stable productive models and underlined that the Basque region is one of the most competitive regions in Europe, with industry representing 23% of the GDP and including sectors which are considered to be strategic, such as energy -which represents 7.5% of the GDP and employs 68,000 people in 350 companies-, the automotive sector –with a large number of internationally renowned part manufacturers and top car manufacturers such as Mercedes Benz and Irizar- or machine-tool –we are the third main producer in the European Union and our machine-tool sector is characterized by its international prestige and innovative nature -.
The commitment to innovation and the technological potential of Bizkaia in strategic sectors such as energy, aeronautics or the automotive sector have caught the attention of the entrepreneurs from Idaho. "It is a really interesting find for us", assured Jim Riley, the owner of Riley and Associates, a company in the timber industry established in the north of the state. "I am impressed by what Rementeria has shown to us. We have been given a first-hand insight into what Bizkaia is and what it offers".
And as a matter of fact, its innovative and technological capacity in important sectors such as energy or aeronautics, which are also very important in Idaho, is surprising. It is an interesting first contact. I think there are reasons to think that it is possible to move forward and seek collaboration between companies from Bizkaia and from here. But it is necessary to work hard, to pin down that relation, what can be of interest for ones and for others, the needs and the way to carry it out. There is still a lot to do, but it is a good starting point, Riley said to the entrepreneurs from Idaho, who were also pleasantly surprised at the professionalism, the high qualifications of the population (the ratio of engineers is the highest in Europe) and the commitment of Bizkaia to nurturing, caring for and attracting talent.
In this regard, the President of the Provincial Council pointed out that 46% of the population have a university degree, whereas the average in Europe is 24%, and that the Council promotes programmes which facilitate the hiring, promotion and integration of researchers in Bizkaia.
He also reminded them that an agreement has been concluded with the Pete Cenarrusa Foundation to exchange talent. This agreement is framed within the so-called Basque-American Talent & Leadership Route programme and intends to be a development platform to know the business, scientific, technological, institutional and cultural reality of the Basque Country and North America in order to build bridges and tighten the link of highly-qualified people with high professional growth potential from both territories.
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"We Reject the Killing of Innocent Civilians"
The headlines sometimes say things like this: "Islam rejects the killing of innocent people." That headline is a quote by the Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf.
Those of us who have studied Islamic doctrine know that nowhere in the Koran or Hadith does it imply non-Muslims are innocent. In fact, it implies just the opposite. Read more about that here.
Or, as Anjem Choudary, the London-based Islamic activist, put it: "When we say innocent people, we mean Muslims. As far as normal citizens, they have not accepted Islam, and as far as we're concerned that is a crime against God."
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Corona del Mar girls' lacrosse pulls away to top Edison
Corona del Mar High's Caroline Brewster (7) is congratulated by teammates after she scored during the first half of a Sunset League game at Edison on Thursday.
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Corona del Mar High's Celeste Wayne, center, secures the ball before driving in for a score during the first half of a Sunset League game at Edison on Thursday.
Edison High's Savannah Buyan, center right, battles Corona del Mar's Celeste Wayne, center left, for a loose ball during the first half of a Sunset League game on Thursday.
Edison High's Ali Bryant, center, competes against Corona del Mar during the first half of a Sunset League game on Thursday.
Corona del Mar High's Joslyn Simaan, center, carries the ball during the first half of a Sunset League game at Edison on Thursday.
Corona del Mar High goalkeeper Katie Langley defends the net during the first half of a Sunset League game at Edison on Thursday.
Edison High goalkeeper Keena Colamonico makes a save against Corona del Mar during the first half in a Sunset League game on Thursday.
By Matt Szabo
It is a year of change for the Corona del Mar High girls' lacrosse team.
The Sea Kings have a new coach in Jessica Murray, a longtime assistant who took over the head job when Aly Simons resigned after 10 seasons.
CdM also left the Pacific Coast League for the Sunset League. Edison is another team that joined the Sunset League, but that's because this is just the second year that it has had a program.
The Sea Kings and Chargers met Thursday night, and it was close — for a half.
Junior Caroline Brewster scored five goals as CdM pulled away for an 11-6 victory on the Chargers' field.
CdM (3-3, 2-0 in league), which opened league with a forfeit win over Laguna Beach last week, has had an up-and-down start to the season. Murray attributed much of that to a difficult schedule.
Corona del Mar High's Joslyn Simaan, center, carries the ball during the first half of a Sunset League game at Edison on Thursday.
Junior midfielder Paige Wood added three goals and senior defender Joslyn Simaan added two for CdM, which led just 5-4 late in the first half before pulling away.
"I felt like this is the first game that our team fully connected all together," Simaan said. "Our first couple of games were just like it was the start of the season, trying to get into it. This game, I felt very connected as a team and I feel like we worked together very well. It just gets me very excited for the rest of the season."
Simaan is one of three team captains for CdM, along with senior defender Simone Oberreiter and senior goalkeeper Katie Langley, who made nine saves. The defense was stout, allowing just two goals in the final 29-plus minutes of the game.
"I think defense as a whole today, we really communicated well," said Brewster, who led the Sea Kings with three ground balls. "We got our sticks up and wanted to get the ball back, so that was really important."
Getting back to full strength helped. Murray said that Oberreiter returned Thursday after a four-game absence due to attending a Model U.N. conference in New York.
"She's one of our captains and she's a really good leader back there," Simaan said. "Communication is really key to defense, and she's just very loud and very good at what she does."
Edison (9-2, 0-1) has not had a particularly difficult nonleague campaign, but the Chargers have an impressive record and were competitive in their league opener. Sophomore Ali Bryant scored twice while senior Annie Cavener, sophomore Blakely Malpass, freshman Gwen Ontiveros and sophomore Savanna Buyan added one goal each.
Ontiveros' goal with 9:22 left in the second half stopped a five-goal streak by CdM and brought the Chargers within 10-5, but they ran out of time.
"It was a good try," Edison coach Rob Hendrix said aloud, clapping his hands with less than two minutes left as he came toward the scorer's table. "We're playing better."
Senior Keena Colamonico made six saves for Edison, which continues league play at Laguna Beach on March 21.
CdM has nonleague home games against Corona Santiago on Saturday and San Clemente on Tuesday before playing at Newport Harbor on March 21 at 6 p.m. in the annual Battle of the Bay rivalry game.
The game will be the league opener for Newport Harbor.
"They have beaten us the last two seasons," Murray said. "I'm looking forward to a really good Battle of the Bay. A lot of the girls know each other. I think that causes a lot of emotion, good and bad, but I look forward to it because it's a game in our backyard and it's good competition."
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The Governor's Cup International Youth Match Racing Championship prides itself on being a gateway event for future stars in the sport of sailing.
Huntington Beach girls' water polo will remember coach Mark Canner's impact
The Huntington Beach High girls' water polo team earned its first CIF Southern Section playoff win in six seasons in beating Murrieta Valley in the first round of the Division 2 playoffs in February.
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Tanner Pulice has been a sharpshooter since he was a freshman on the Corona del Mar High boys' water polo team.
Former Angels pitcher Jim Abbott provides inspiration at Newport library
Jim Abbott was born without a right hand, but clearly not without a sense of humor or gift of public speaking.

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The Frankel Family Foundation is deeply concerned about the changing climate conditions on our planet and the developed world's dependence on fossil fuel as an energy source. The FFF believes we are at critical juncture in this impending crisis. We also feel that the United States can and should take a leadership role in the movement to decrease global carbon emissions. With this goal in mind we wish to fund organizations who are taking a leadership role in grassroots organizing and advocacy to change government funding and policy in favor of sustainable energy and decreasing carbon emissions on a large scale.


Abstract: Monitoring the number of insect pests is a crucial component in pheromone-based pest management systems. In this paper, we propose an automatic detection pipeline based on deep learning for identifying and counting pests in images taken inside field traps. Applied to a commercial codling moth dataset, our method shows promising performance both qualitatively and quantitatively. Compared to previous attempts at pest detection, our approach uses no pest-specific engineering which enables it to adapt to other species and environments with minimal human effort. It is amenable to implementation on parallel hardware and therefore capable of deployment in settings where real-time performance is required.


Vice President and Prime Minister of UAE and Ruler of Dubai His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum emphasized that endowment is a developmental tool for communities and an effective means for promoting response to various community needs.
His Highness said, "What we are doing through endowment will be reflected on all developmental aspects. We want to get out of the traditional framework and to make endowment as a tool that supports culture, medical and scientific research, technology, environment, awareness campaigns and other fields, they all serve to achieve the good for humanity"
His Highness praised the results achieved by the Mohammed bin Rashid Global Centre for Endowment Consultancy (MBRGCEC) in its first year and urged it to continue to attract institutions and individuals by launching innovative endowments for the service of the community.
In terms of the endowment allocation, the knowledge and innovation sector received 38 per cent to fund training, consultancy, research, knowledge programmes, innovation and culture. The education sector received 29 per cent to fund university seats, tuition fees for schools and quality education programmes. The social sector received 21 percent to fund healthcare, needy families, awareness campaigns and marriage. The remaining 12 per cent endowments were distributed over childrens' welfare, youth enterprises, environmental programmes and medical research (such as cancer and diabetes research).
Furthermore, His Highness has adopted the concept of 'The Innovative Endowment Journey in Dubai,' making it the first world's city to integrate the concept of innovative endowments with the day-to-day activities of the residents.
For example, a Dubai resident can start his/her day by taking an Endowment taxi in the morning; the fare contributes to social campaigns. He/she can also listen to one of the two Endowment radio stations, which promote young entrepreneurs by offering free advertising for their new ventures.
By paying fees to hospitals that feature Endowment rooms, Dubai's residents can contribute to the treatment of future patients.
Moreover, he/she can also contribute to an endowment for cancer research by participating in auctions organized by one of the institutions that adopt the innovative endowment concept.


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In New Memoir, Eurythmics' Dave Stewart Tells Of Life Before And After 'Sweet Dreams'
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(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN")
DONE AGAIN: (Singing) There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold. And she's buying a stairway to heaven.
(SOUNDBITE OF EURYTHMICS SONG, "SWEET DREAMS ARE MADE OF THIS")
I probably don't need to tell you that you're hearing "Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This," maybe one of the most famous songs recorded by the Eurythmics. We're playing it because we're going to talk to Dave Stewart, half of the extraordinary pop music duo, along with Annie Lennox.
Dave Stewart has written a memoir with the same title as the famous piece of music, and he joins us now from our studios in New York City.
Thank you very much for doing this. And welcome.
DAVE STEWART: It's very nice to be here.
WERTHEIMER: Now, Dave Stewart, I could not help but think that at the beginning of your life in music, which is the subtitle of your memoir, that you narrowly missed becoming a rich and famous performer and creator. In fact, you came awfully close to being a dead teenage drug addict.
STEWART: That's very true, yeah. It was actually Annie who helped me get away from all of that and sort of downsize the amount of speed and cocaine and all the things I was taking - in a very sweet way, actually, because she just started to make a note in a little notebook of how many times I was taking speed a day, for instance. Say there was 20 lines of speed, she'd suggest, like - hey, how about 19 lines today?
WERTHEIMER: So when you and Annie Lennox actually met and started to make music together, you were a couple for quite a while.
STEWART: Yeah. We were a couple from the minute we first met. And you know, from that day onwards, for about five years, we were a very sweet couple, actually. We were living on 8 pounds a week. That's about $12 a week between us. We got the vegetables from 'round the back of the vegetable shop, the ones that they didn't sell that day or whatever. And we lived in a squat. And we would go to - what you call swap meets - or we call jumble sales and try and get a sofa bed for, like, $2. And you know, I mean, we were really started at zero.
And we then started to have idea to make music together. But we still didn't write any songs. We had a band called The Tourists, where the - Peet Coombes wrote all the songs. And that was massive work, and we made three albums. And we went around the world and toured. And it was very stressful trying to be a couple in a little van with seven guys - Annie the only girl - and it put our relationship under a lot of pressure.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "17 AGAIN")
EURYTHMICS: (Singing) Yeah, it feels like I'm 17, yeah.
STEWART: So when we finished it - our Australian tour, we decided to live apart. But we were a couple who could not be together but could not be apart. So at first, she just moved upstairs, which was kind of ridiculous because we - she'd come down and have a cup of tea and then, you know (laughter).
WERTHEIMER: (Laughter).
STEWART: It was just the same as living together, really.
WERTHEIMER: It does the amazing that you could live together as a couple for a number of years and then break up - and then create the Eurythmics.
STEWART: Yeah. I mean, what's even stranger is, you know, Annie and I being a duo. You know, that look - sometimes you'll be on the stage playing a song. And we look at each other, and we know, ourselves, what it's all about and everything we've been through. And I think the audience felt this sort of emotion that ran through the song and ran through the concert hall or stadium. And - so it was a very emotional experience, Eurythmics concerts because we were very emotional.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "HERE COMES THE RAIN AGAIN")
EURYTHMICS: (Singing) So baby, talk to me like lovers do. Walk with me like lovers do. Talk to me like lovers do. Oh, yeah.
WERTHEIMER: I was very interested in all of the descriptions of places that you bought to work - or places that you bought to live. You were creating companies. You formed your own bands. You wrote your own musical hits. And you bought a lot of real estate. I mean, it sounds like somewhere along the line, you got very rich.
STEWART: Well, you see, there was a time, a long, long time ago when people bought records. And when people bought records...
STEWART: ...Artists got paid. But you remember, we stopped making records in 1990.
And we went crazy at one point. And our manager in America - he said I'm only going to give you one piece of advice. You know this is when "Sweet Dreams" was No. 1, and he could tell we were going to be successful. He said - only buy one home. And everywhere else, you're just vacationing. Just, you know, rent it for a week or a month. And of course, neither of us listened to him.
We bought apartments in Paris. And you know, we bought land and houses. And I bought - I built a house in Encino next to Tom Petty because we were getting on like a house fire when I wrote "Don't Come Around Here No More" with him. And the house became a kind of, I don't know, like, a lightning rod for music.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "MISSIONARY MAN")
EURYTHMICS: Well, I was born an original sinner. I was born from original sin. And if I had a dollar bill for all the things I've done, there'd be a mountain of money piled up to my chin, hey.
STEWART: So I'd look in my back garden, and there's a Seal sunbathing. Or, you know, Prince recording in the studio at the back. One time, under the tree in my back garden, is, strumming guitars, Bob Dylan, George Harrison Jeff Lynne and Tom Petty. And Roy Orbison is singing. And it is, you know, not something you would imagine you when you were, like, 15 and in the North Eastern town, listening to these voices on the radio. But you know, life can change you on amazing trails, if you let it.
WERTHEIMER: Dave Stewart's memoir is named after one of the Eurythythmic's biggest hits. It's called "Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This."
Dave Stewart, thank you very much for talking to us.
STEWART: Thank you very much.
(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "SWEET DREAMS ARE MADE OF THIS")
EURYTHMICS: (Singing) Sweet dreams are made of this. Who am I to disagree? I travel the world and the seven seas. Everybody's looking for something. Some of them want to use you. Some of them...
WERTHEIMER: This is WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. I'm Linda Wertheimer.
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Spider-Man Miles Morales' latest update adds 60 FPS mode with ray tracing
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Spider-Man: Miles Morales - New update adds 60 FPS mode with ray-tracing
The latest update for Insomniac Games' Spider-Man Miles Morales has introduced another 60 FPS mode, which adds ray-tracing by adjusting the resolution, reflection quality and pedestrian density.
Today, Insomniac Games' have released a fresh update for their latest superhero action-adventure Spider-Man: Miles Morales. The update is now live on PlayStation 5 and it introduces a neat feature that will allow you to enjoy ray-tracing lightning even in 60 FPS mode.
There's a downside though - some stuff will need to be toned down in order to hit those smooth frame-rate target. The mode description in the graphics menu states that it changes the resolution, reflection quality and pedestrian density. Check out the description in the screenshot above.
If you are one of those players who prefer stuff like ray-tracing, but still crave for at least 60 FPS, then this update will certainly make you a happy bunny.
Sony Spider-Man Miles Morales
As you may know, Spider-Man Miles Morales already has ray-tracing enabled but you'll have to settle for 30 FPS which is of course, far from an ideal experience.
There is also a 60 FPS mode which removes ray-tracing completely, leaving you with standard reflections and lighting.
All in all, the new update is certainly a welcomed one and hats off to Insomniac Games dev for further optimising the game in order to allow the combination of 60 FPS and ray-tracing with a minor downside in visuals.
Spider-Man Miles Morales is out now on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4.
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Q: Why do people specify language when asking language-agnostic algorithm questions? I frequently ask questions about algorithms, data structures or low-level stuff on SO and I've noticed that most people specify the language they're working in when asking these kinds of questions.  I don't and my rationale is as follows:

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*If you really understand the solution to a generic problem, you should be able to explain it in a language-agnostic way, and if you're a good programmer you should be able to understand an outline of a solution written in a different language than the one you're used to, or in plain English or pseudocode.

*I am interested in input from people who may use different languages than I do.

*I primarily program in D, which is bleeding edge enough that there aren't very many canned libraries and not many people know it.

*I usually want to understand the solution at a conceptual level rather than just getting a black-box code snippet.

Is there any counter-argument to this?  Why should you make your question non-language-agnostic if it isn't inextricably tied to a single language?

A: Certain languages might have built-in features that simplify the intended goal.  By explicitly stating your language of choice, it might enable knowledgeable language users to point out these features.  So, strictly algorithmically, I think you're correct, but there still might be practical consequences in some cases.

A: Because sometimes the particular language you happen to be working in has a neat built-in way to solve whatever problem it is you're trying to solve. In terms of questions about algorithms for example, Python has zip and map etc, which may make your life easier.

A: Personally, I think it's because that they're looking for some frame of reference with which to bounce answers off of.

A: People express themselves the way they can. If they're deep down into some languages, it is likely it leaves impression on their thought patterns. Or it is simply the language they speak.
Don't think much of it. Who can, asks a question in the language-agnostic manner.
As far as answering goes, sometimes it may help if you make your answer also language-specific. Some beginner folks may not be able to translate it into their language.

A: Programming, which is the focus of SO, requires you write code. The code is language specific.

A: Another reason which hasn't been said yet is that it is a way to get your question seen. A lot of people browse questions by their 'interested tags'. If you add a popular tag to your question your chances of it being seen are that much higher.

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At first, the smart mobile phone is mainly used to provide feedback to the user's voice, and later with the mobile phone software is more and more abundant, the user experience on the use of increasingly high demand, use sound to provide feedback has been unable to meet the demand of users of intelligent mobile phone. As a result, part of the smart phone began to use the motor to provide vibration and touch, but with the increasingly thin cell phone, the traditional rotor motor can no longer meet the new requirements, so the linear motor came into being.
And what's the difference between a linear motor and a tradtional bar motor and coin type motor.
We can find that the linear motor can make the user feel different vibration sensation according to the different scene, and can send out different subtle vibration on different positions of the touch screen.
And long life time but little current consumption.
It will be the best choose for smart phone.


Orlando, FL – October 8, 2018 – Today at the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) (Booth #1421), Samsung Electronics America, Inc. announced it is partnering with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation's (CDCR) Enterprise Information Services (EIS) Division to develop a new mobile solution that supplements existing public safety communication systems. The custom solution will include an Agent Alert messaging system exclusively for CDCR law enforcement personnel to communicate with Command Central, and an SOS application function for supporting them if they are caught in an adverse situation.
Customized with Samsung Knox Configure for Samsung Galaxy smartphones, Agent Alert is a secure messaging app that can be initiated from the Galaxy smartphone or a single web console to allow central command to distribute both critical and non-emergency messages to anyone within the department as needed. By moving this critical communications functionality away from computer-aided dispatch (CAD), CDCR is helping to ensure consistent communications among its teams.
Samsung and EIS, CDCR's technology team, will also soon deploy a customized SOS application, which allows personnel to communicate critical situational information to Command Central when encountering adverse events. When the alert button on the customized device is pressed, Command Central can assess the information provided, and quickly dispatch the appropriate help to the location based on type of incident and level of threat. The solution facilitates ongoing communication between dispatched personnel by text.
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Classic toys join hall of fame
Bubbles, little green army men and Rubik's Cube are newest inductees
Classic toys join hall of fame Bubbles, little green army men and Rubik's Cube are newest inductees Check out this story on poughkeepsiejournal.com: http://pojonews.co/1runCxR
Associated Press Published 5:40 p.m. ET Nov. 27, 2014
Bubbles, little green army men and Rubik's Cube were inducted as new additions to the National Toy Hall of Fame in Rochester.(Photo: National Toy Hall of Fame/AP)
ROCHESTER – Before the holiday wish lists and mad buying rush each year comes a dose of nostalgia with the National Toy Hall of Fame's annual picks for enshrinement.
This year bubbles, little green army men and Rubik's Cube took their place alongside past winners including Monopoly and Silly Putty. But is the road to such playtime immortality all fun and games? According to the judges, yes.
Sure, there's occasional lobbying. The Hess gas station's Facebook page suggested this 50th anniversary year was the perfect time to include its toy truck, and Raggedy Ann fans in yarn wigs picketed for her inclusion in 2002. But Hall of Fame judges say any real pressure is nostalgia driven, a matter of balancing head versus heart. Take "Star Wars" action figures, which were on the ballot last year, said Jeff Gomez, chief executive at Starlight Runner Entertainment.
"What I have to do is separate a little bit from my own childhood and take a look and see if I could argue for them," the media consultant says. It turns out he could, because of how the figures let children tell their own stories within the movie mythology. In they went.
Before making the ballot, toys survive a panel of historians and curators at The Strong museum, where the 16-year-old hall of fame is housed. The group meets several times to choose 12 finalists from nominees that pour in online all year and via postcard and petition. The finalists are sent to the 24 judges, who include inventors, educators, psychologists and others.
This year, 434 toys were nominated within 5,000 submissions. Only toys with longevity, icon status and the ability to inspire kids are seriously considered. But that only narrows the list so much.
"There's always a give-and-take," says Chris Bensch, vice president for collections. This year, Bensch went in thinking electric football could be on the ballot.
"I have to say my colleagues rapidly disabused me that that was worth including this year," Bensch says. "It didn't have enough play value. It was all about chance. It hadn't been on the market long enough."
For this year's finalists, the panel came up with American Girl dolls, Fisher-Price Little People, Hess toy trucks, My Little Pony, Operation, paper airplanes, pots and pans, Slip 'N Slide, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and the three winners.
"I try to pull back and look at the big picture: How much did this toy impact our culture, impact our country?" ESPN producer and judge Amy Rosenfeld says. "It's impossible not to apply your own personal experiences."
Some choices have stirred debate. Matchbox fans weren't happy with the enshrinement of Hot Wheels, Bensch says, and in a tongue-in-cheek rant, Comedy Central's Jon Stewart took the hall to task for inducting the stick and cardboard box before the ball. Those unconventional nominees, like this year's pots and pans, always raise a few eyebrows. But, Gomez notes, "Not all of us are well off and not all of us had the wonderful things we saw in TV commercials."
Toy analyst Chris Byrne says the hall of fame helps memorialize a place in the nation's culture but doesn't necessarily propel the toy onto kids' Christmas lists. Rubik's Cube, though still well-known, had its heyday in the early 1980s, he notes.
"These are things that generations from now, people will say, 'What was that?' " he said. "It's a nice piece of cultural history."
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On a short weekend trip to Las Vegas, I decided to visit the Grand Canyon. Its a far drive so I decided to take a flight tour to the South Rim area and return to Vegas the same day. The tour starts with a tour bus that picks up guests from various resorts to re-group at another hotel to get on a larger bus. The larger bus drove a group of us to Boulder City right out side of Vegas.
We check in at the airport, out side you can see the helicopters that do the West rim tours. These fly into the West Rim and land inside and on top of the canyon. The airport staff announces that because of the small aircrafts every one will be weighed to distribute the weight on the aircrafts.
We walk out and it already getting really warm. Its still early morning.
We are shown our ride.
Its an 8 seater and I sit behind the pilot. I can see everything he does.
We are in the air, its really loud. but first we see Lake Mead.
To see how much water its holding back for the sky is a unique perspective. Its a lot of water.
The West Rim begins to show its face.
The tour provides noise canceling headphones with a tour recording as you look out the window.
We land at the South Rim.
After we land, a bus takes us to the South Rim entrance, on the drive there, we see some wild life. There is an add on helicopter tour of the South Rim, I regret not taking that tour. The first view of the canyon… its GRAND…. again the pictures do not do it justice.
I take picture after picture. When I arrived around noon, the sun was high in the sky and there were almost no shadows in the canyon.
Some areas do not have any man made safety facilities and anyone can walk right up to the edge.
There are various hotels on the South Rim.
A famous view point with guard rails.
End of tour… I would have liked to the West Rim tour as it flies into the canyon and makes a few landings. . I feel like the flight over the West Rim gave too much of a preview of the South Rim and may have taken away from the 'wow' experience of seeing it for the first time. Or I should have taken the add on tour at the South Rim. Nevertheless the tour was worth the time invested.
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Celebrity Profiles June 23, 2019
25 years: The making of Mesach Semakula
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Tested. His health once ailed but he got back on his feet. Mesach Ssemakula recently celebrated 25 years of music. EDGAR R. BATTE caught up with him for details about how he started out.
Mesach Ssemakula kneels before his parents during one of his performances. Photos by EDGAR R. BATTE
"Your Majesty, we will not try to defend ourselves. If the God whom we serve is able to save us from the blazing furnace and your power, then he will. But even if he doesn't, Your Majesty, be sure that we will not worship your god, and we will not bow down to the gold statue that you have set up."
Singer Mesach Semakula references the words of Biblical characters Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego to tell his story. A story where his celebrity status exposed him to negative press which shook but did not break him.
As a boy, Semakula says he did not like the name, Mesach, thinking it was old fashioned until his father implored him to read the Bible to understand its meaning. He was humbled.
His first trip to Kampala was in 1993 when Umaru Katumba, an artist he admired called for a youngsters' audition to recruit for Emitoes, a group he was establishing. Semakula, then 18, sneaked out of their home in Buwaate to join the contest.
"The judges were not only looking for good vocalists but also dancers and dramatists," he says adding that it was how Grace Ssekamatte was selected but Semakula was not.
But he did well, going as far as the finals that attracted more than 1,000 contenders at Pride Theatre. He says the fact that he was still young made it easy for the judges to kick him out.
This competition is referred to in Bwagamba, his latest song, in the verse he sings that he was eliminated from a competition where Ssekamatte was the star and he was not.
That competition was judged by Paul Kato Lubwama, Andrew Benon Kibuuka, Charles James Ssenkubuge, Aloysius Matovu Joy, Livingstone Kasozi, Paulo Job Kafeero, Abby Mukiibi and Herman Basudde.
It was at the competition that he became close to Geoffrey Lutaaya and the two decided to further chase their music dream. Together, they formed Gebros, a group that later collapsed.
Semakula though had remained grounded and worked closely with artists that had been there before them, it was not surprising that he and others easily ended up in Kato Lubwama's Diamonds Production in 1996.
Enter the Eagles…
A year later, they were back to nothing when Diamonds Production sacked them abruptly. Then penniless, it is said that Lutaaya sold his omnibus to raise money for band equipment. However, this was not enough and they went off the scene for nearly a year.
When they made a comeback they were Eagles Production but stayed close to established groups.
It was only in 1999 that he released his debut album Ntomedde that was later bought by HK Music Recorders Sounds at Shs700,000, but that was only the beginning; his later releases, Silika Nkulojere and Sembera were bought at shs2.5m each and Wampangura at shs3m. In 2003, the band started making presence on the airwaves and among the songs that established it was Tukwegomba Bangi, Semakula's breakthrough song that doubled as an album title.
The song enjoyed good airplay and Lusini Enterprises bought it at Shs13m. From the money, Semakula invested in starting Kann Records, a shop that sold tapes in the Old Taxi Park.
Almost 25 years later, he has seen it all; a Pearl of Africa Music (Pam) Awards Male Artiste of the Year 2004 and Artiste of the Year in 2005, Semakula has also made his mark on the continent winning the Star of Africa in Cape Town, South Africa for his song Kulika Baby.
The other two recipients of the award are Kadongo Kamu stars, the late Paul Kafeero and Lord Fred Ssebatta.
Music and pirates
However, even when songs such as Ntongo, First Aid or Sigwe Onsimila were anthems, Semakula notes that today, releasing albums has stopped being lucrative since there are no suppliers.
"Pirates are many and have spoilt the music industry," he says.
Musicians, he says, are now turning to make shows as opposed to selling albums; "As Golden Band, we hold shows every weekend we also need to slow down on that. We plan to get home, like Afrigo Band, where our fans can see us perform."
Away from the stage
Besides singing, Semakula is a farmer and businessman, operating a hangout, Papaz Spot, a recording studio and real estate. He is grateful to his music manager, Musa Kavuma, who has always pointed him in the right direction.
"He is my top gun. He is one person who will tell me something and I won't talk back at him. When he told me he wanted me to get a respectable home, I was uncertain. At the time, I was staying in Kikajjo where I was beaten almost to death," Semakula recounts.
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Kavuma told him to sell the home, along with his the Mitsubishi Pajero and drove him to see land in Buziga which had an old house.
"He told me to sign agreements. I had second thoughts but with time, after paying for the land, I got to appreciate that he meant well and had actually gotten me a prime spot in a good neighbourhood."
Over the weekend, Semakula and Kavuma organised his latest concert Bwagamba that celebrated his achievements as well as giving him a platform to share his story with people that have been with him and supported him over the years.
Mesach has songs that have stood the test of time because he understands what people want. His music celebrates love and a range of subjects. He has sang about his love for Buganda and his king, among other relevant subjects. He is quite humble and down to earth. Success has never gotten to his head. He is a respectful person and has made music business. He is good at other businesses which has earned him more success.
Isaac Mulindwa, former organiser, Pam Awards
I met Mesach in 1997 at Diamonds Production. He had not become popular but his music was educative. He had released Ntomedde, a song which tackled HIV/Aids. When they left to form Eagles Production, I stayed with Diamonds. After I brought Lucky Dube and his show was successful they asked me to manage them. Mesach got his breakout songs which also promoted Eagles. He is respectful, obedient, seeks advice about music and beyond. Musa Kavuma, manager
Mesach is my close friend and colleague in music for about 20 years. His integrity, leadership, unwavering commitment, patience and rare wisdom stand out. He is a trustworthy friend and one of my confidants. As a musician, he has been tested and he is one of our most experienced cadres. He has a great voice which he uses well. He chooses his topics and lyrics carefully. And he has 'staying power'. My favourites are many but my all time is Abakazi abaguma and Jangu eno.
Sylver Kyagulanyi, friend
• Music genre
• Musical inspiration…
• Happiest moment…
When Kabaka recognised and honoured me as Omusiime.
•Most challenging time of music career…
Blackmail from people out to tarnish my name.
•What you can't do without…
God has been there for me. Then my family. It is part of me and is my purpose for working hard.
•Wish for Uganda…
A day when policymakers can share a table and make decisions for the good without fear or favour, irrespective of family ties, tribe and race.
•Favourite meal…
Matooke, beans, semutuundu (catfish), chapatti and sugarless dry tea.
•Favourite childhood memory…
Looking for and meeting my mother after 13 years. I never grew up with her and it was exciting.
•How often I go to church…
Every Sunday when I am not on work safari.
•Advice to budding artists…
Think about what you want to be and research the subject you would like to sing about and the target audience. It is okay to be modern but not lose your traditions. You can big a star and remain humble. Seek respect not being feared.
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The general election season is upon us, and this year there seems to be more confusion than ever about what is allowed when it comes to voting. We're here to help you get it right! In this two-part series of articles, we help you navigate the upcoming election, understand some top-of-mind election crimes in Colorado, and stay out of trouble.
This year, the volume has been turned up on claims of voter fraud. There has also been a national discussion about the legitimacy of mail-in ballots given that more states are turning to mail ballots due to COVID-19. Colorado happens to be a leader in the nation when it comes to mail-in voting, so we've got a track record to draw from when looking at the realities of voting by mail.
Election Crimes Include Voter Fraud
First, let's take a look at a few illegal activities associated with voter registration. In Colorado, it is unlawful to obtain a false voter registration. This situation could occur where someone who is ineligible to vote is able to successfully register to vote using false information. For instance, someone who is not yet the legal age to vote – which is 18 years of age for a general election in Colorado – could falsify age information to procure his or her voter registration. Or, a person who is not a United States citizen and is, therefore, ineligible to vote, could theoretically falsify citizenship status and register to vote.
Finally, to be eligible to vote in Colorado, a U.S. citizen at least 18 years of age must also reside in Colorado for at least 22 days immediately prior to the election date. Falsifying residency information could lead to an unlawful voter registration, too.
Next, a person who is eligible to vote in Colorado could engage in illegal activity at the time of casting a ballot. For instance, a voter could cast more than one ballot, which is understandably prohibited by law. Or, an eligible voter could tamper with someone else's ballot, which is also a crime under Colorado law. When it comes to mail ballots, it is an offense to falsely make, alter, forge, or counterfeit a mail ballot before or after it has been cast. Of course, destroying, defacing, mutilating, or tampering with the mail ballot is also punishable.
There are many more rules relating to unlawful voting and election activities, but these are a few of the crimes which are top-of-mind this election season.
Penalties for Election Crimes
Penalties for unlawful activity relating to voter registration, voting more than once, and interfering with mail ballots can include a fine of up to $5,000.00, or imprisonment in the county jail for up to 18 months, or both.
Suspected cases of voter fraud are typically referred to the appropriate District Attorney's office or to the Colorado Attorney General for investigation and prosecution. If a person is suspected of having engaged in illegal election activities, that person is likely to need representation by a criminal defense attorney in order to defend alleged election crimes.
How Common is Voter Fraud in Colorado?
While voter fraud is certainly possible, the reality is that these particular types of election crimes in Colorado are very rare.
In Colorado's 2018 general election, the referral rate for potential double voting and further investigation of other suspected issues was 0.0027 percent of all ballots cast that year, according to Colorado's Secretary of State, Jena Griswold. That figure is equivalent to 62 ballots out of 1.5 million ballots cast.
And, another study conducted following the 2016 general election revealed 48 instances of possible improper voter conduct in Colorado. The study looked at the voter records of five states, including Colorado, totaling 11.5 million voter records. Of the nearly 2.9 million votes cast in Colorado in 2016, a mere 0.0016 percent of those ballots were suspected of being problematic. The 48 potentially problematic cases included 10 people suspected of voting twice in Colorado and 38 people suspected of voting in both Colorado and one of the other four states involved in the study.
While the kinds of voter fraud discussed here appear to arise infrequently, we all should understand the requirements to vote legally in our elections and help others do the same. And, in a super-charged election season in which the legitimacy of our elections is being questioned by some, it serves us all to know the facts about how uncommon these kind of election crimes actually are.
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Applying filters to dudes on the internet.
Part of the reason I maintain my blog is to provide a look over my shoulder for anyone who is interested at how I navigate market cycles for clients, my thoughts on portfolio construction and how I analyze investment products as well as how my thoughts evolve on more lifestyle related topics like retirement and a few others. This is all in line with my belief in taking bits of process from various sources to create your own process. If you visit here regularly then maybe a couple of things resonate, likewise with any other places you go for content.
As a look over my shoulder and the evolution (development) of how I view things, I try to avoid unnecessarily declarative statements; EVERYONE SHOULD...but I make no claim of infallibility. Often there are overly declarative statements from aspiring (or maybe acclaimed) lifestyle and investing gurus (I see this primarily on Twitter) and also in the comments on some of my posts. Some will proclaim everyone should own index funds or everyone should own dividend growth stocks. I typically reply that I am glad they found what works for them but no, not everyone should do what they (the commenter I am replying to) think is best, their (investing) god is not the one true god.
I see this a lot with my burgeoning interest in nutrition. I've started following a few people on Twitter related to nutrition, and then depending on their Twitter stream, I'll stick with them or not, similar to people I follow for market related streams.
Over a year ago I started to blog a little bit about my decision to greatly reduce my carbohydrate intake and my having lost 25 pounds I didn't know I needed to lose. Many people refer to this as a LCHF diet; low carb/high fat. One of the nutrition people I follow, and this is a common belief, says that we have been lied to about fat being bad for us and many other nutritional issues. I long ago came to believe that everything we were taught about fat being bad for us actually pertains to sugar. I can't make the connection though to some sort of sinister plot to deceive us so much as we now have much better information. This one person has vast knowledge on what happens at the cellular level when you reduce carbs and do intermittent fasting (once a week I skip breakfast and have lunch a little late that day, it's low key but the benefits at the cellular level appear to be substantial) as well as working out which is why I follow him.
He says some other things in an overly declarative fashion that don't resonate with me, maybe he mis-Tweeted but he said that a vegan diet contributes to obesity, I could see it being difficult to be adequately nourished but obese from it doesn't seem right. Overall I am learning from this person and so will stick with him.
I stumbled across another Tweeter who I thought was a nutrition person but is more of a life coach. Every now and then he says something interesting, he Tweeted a couple of things about stoicism which interests me but I read most of his Tweets as someone getting in my face and screaming. The trade off in this instance probably leads to not following him.
So it is with investing content. Sifting through and taking in what is useful while jettisoning what is not. Here's a link to a Marketwatch article about the 4% rule for sustainable withdrawal rates in retirement. There is a great deal of content and discussion about the 4% rule related to it being too conservative, too aggressive, too complicated, are the assumptions underlying it still valid and so on.
My take on it has always been that it is a crucial building block of understanding for retirement planning and that once you full understand it you can then make an informed decision about how much to take out. While 4% is ideal based on testing, the odd are well in your favor at 5%, there is absolutely no guarantee at 5% but still good odds.
I do gravitate to 4% but a slightly different version of it. The "rule" is take 4% in your first year and then adjust up for inflation up in subsequent years. So if in year one, 4% works out to $30,000, in year two at 2% inflation you'd take out $30,600.
I think the inflation component makes it unnecessarily complicated. Ideally the portfolio is inflating in most years as asset prices increase. I'm more in the camp of whatever you got; 4%. A little more specifically, 1% every three months. The downside is some volatility in the amount you take out as the portfolio value ebbs and flows and that requires some flexibility.
Many years ago a reader observed that if you take 1% of the whatever the portfolio value is every three months, then you would never run out of money. Technically that is correct but not my primary reason for whatever you got; 4%. For someone who has been able to save most of what they need, say at least 80% of their number even if not 100%, the biggest risk might be some sort of one off, very expensive medical expense not covered by insurance. I view whatever you got; 4% as potentially creating more resilience in the face of that circumstance. If you had $800,000 and $300,000 would save your life would you spend the money and then figure out what to do after the fact? Answer that one however you want, but the ability to have that choice is threatened if you take that $30,000/yr a couple of times when the portfolio is down by a significant amount during a bear market like 2001/2002.
Does that resonate with you? Maybe yes maybe no, that is for you to filter, it is my belief in what to do, and even if you this is not for you maybe it offers something to think about which then hopefully makes you a little more informed. To the vegan comment above, I eat a big salad most days. I actually don't know whether the salad by itself is a vegan thing or not but taking in several sources of information, I want some balance in my diet such that I have a low carb intake, not a diet where I eat nothing but red meat.


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Disappointment 1: the lack of a really great critical study of Powell & Pressburger. Ian Christie's Arrows of Desire was a fine starting point, and the coffee-table quality of the book, with glossy and lurid colour stills, makes it a nice visual companion to the Archers' films. But Andrew Moor's Powell and Pressburger: A Cinema of Magic Spaces just seemed too DRY to evoke these lush romances, and Scott Salwolke's The Films of Michael Powell and the Archers is hampered by the fact that he hasn't seen all the films. Several times in the book we get the phrase "is hard to see nowadays", which I might believe if I didn't have copies of them on my shelves. I guess I'd admit they're hard to see, but not IMPOSSIBLE. The author doesn't admit to not having seen HONEYMOON, but since all he does is reproduce some contemporary reviews of it, it's pretty clear he never managed to track it down. I guess since the book is ten years old, things were tougher then, but I can't believe THE BOY WHO TURNED YELLOW would be completely inaccessible: Raymond Durgnat sold me a copy for a fiver.
Disappointment 2: What Happens Next: A History of American Screenwriting by Marc Norman. Norman wrote the script for SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE, which was then revised by Tom Stoppard (Norman professed himself delighted to have had Stoppard's assistance), and this is his first non-fiction work. I was hoping to find some kind of thesis lurking in it, but it reads like a stack of anecdotes so far. It reads like *I* wrote it!
The early chapters on silent cinema fall for the old one about Mack Sennett not using written scripts (the half-page or page-long outlines have in fact been found — Frank Capra's autobiography is not the most reliable source for ANYTHING) and he talks about BIRTH OF A NATION having a scene breakdown prepared from the book, but which was never seen on the set, but he misses my favourite Griffith script story: Griffith's first short, THE ADVENTURE OF DOLLIE, had its scenario jotted down by Griffith and cameraman Billy Bitzer the night before shooting, on a piece of cardboard that came from the laundry with Griffith's shirt wrapped round it.
Norman also refers to Chaplin's first director as Henry Pathé Lehrman, missing the all-important inverted commas around "Pathé" (Lehrman got a job with Mack Sennett with a tall tale about having worked for Pathé: when the ruse was discovered, the name stuck) and says that Herman Mankiewicz worked on "some trifle" called CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY. It may sound like a trifle, and the casting of Deanna Durbin and Gene Kelly might have lead contemporary audiences to expect one, but CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY is a very dark film noir romance, and authors should resist making such statements about films they haven't seen.
I'd still like this book to turn into an impassioned and informed account of the screenwriter's role, so I'm going to persevere a little further — this isn't a proper book review since I haven't finished the thing. I will report back if I end up more impressed by it.
Disappointment 3: Hanno's Doll by Evelyn Piper. I picked this up after belatedly realising that both THE NANNY and BUNNY LAKE IS MISSING, films I like a lot, came from Piper novels. I wanted to read something else by her. Although it does have a nice, twisty plot, the book took me ages to finish, being written in an irksome baby-talk that's supposed to simulate the thought processes of the protagonist, a fat German actor (Piper must have had an eye of Curt Jurgens for a possible movie adaptation, or Gert Fröbe).
Whoopee 1: Maja Borg, a recent graduate of the Edinburgh College of Art film course where I teach, has a show on next week, Thursday 21st August, 8.30 pm on More4 in their First Cut series. Happy Birthday, You're Dead takes its inspiration from the fact that a fortune teller once told Maya that she'd die in a car crash before her 25th birthday. The documentary charts the "last" weeks of Maja's life leading up to her 25th.
I'm rooting for her to survive.


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Colonel Anatoliy Chepiga, who used the alias Ruslan Boshirov to enter Britain before allegedly carrying out the attack in March, was made a Hero of the Russian Federation by decree of the president at a secret ceremony in 2014.
Colonel Chepiga fought for 17 years with Spetsnaz, a special forces unit under the command of the GRU, Russia's military intelligence agency. He was deployed to Chechnya three times and is likely to have been given the award for service in Ukraine.


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Welcome to The Coleoptera (Insecta) of Bulgaria
The present web site and database aim to summarize all available data about the Coleoptera in Bulgaria. All literature sources, as well as the new and unpublished data, will be included. The database will be continuously updated.
In the beginning was the Staphylinidae... ;)
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Pressure Technologies PLC - PRES
Proposed sale of Greenlane Biogas
Released 07:00 10-Dec-2018
RNS Number : 8952J
Pressure Technologies PLC
THE INFORMATION CONTAINED WITHIN THIS ANNOUNCEMENT IS DEEMED BY THE COMPANY TO CONSTITUTE INSIDE INFORMATION AS STIPULATED UNDER THE EU MARKET ABUSE REGULATION (596/2014). UPON THE PUBLICATION OF THE ANNOUNCEMENT VIA A REGULATORY INFORMATION SERVICE, THIS INFORMATION IS CONSIDERED TO BE IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN.
("Pressure Technologies" or the "Group")
Pressure Technologies plc (AIM: PRES), the specialist engineering group is pleased to announce that it has today entered into a binding letter of intent ("LOI") with Creation Capital Corp (TSX-V: CRN.P) ("Creation Capital") a capital pool company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange ("TSX-V") to sell its wholly-owned subsidiary, PT Biogas Holdings Limited ("Greenlane"), which is the holding company for the Group's Alternative Energy Division which trades under the name Greenlane Biogas ("the AE Division") for a total consideration of £11.1 million (the "Sale").
Commenting on the Sale, Chris Walters, Chief Executive of Pressure Technologies, said:
"The global outlook for renewable natural gas (RNG) has improved again throughout the year with governments and energy majors increasing their commitment to renewables in the global energy mix, with RNG playing a significant role, particularly in the US and Europe.
"In June 2018, due to its significant potential, we announced that strategic options would be evaluated for our AE Division that would increase market opportunities and help unlock shareholder value. Our strategic option review also considered refocusing the Group on core specialist manufacturing activities in the defence and oil and gas markets.
"As a result of this strategic review and following the appraisal of outright sale and merger options, we have commenced a process to spin out Greenlane and list it on the TSX Venture Exchange, which will be accomplished by selling it to Creation Capital. We will remain a supportive minority shareholder and anticipate retaining our holding for the medium term."
Information on Creation Capital
Creation Capital joined TSX-V on 29 October 2018 with the aim of acquiring a business in the energy sector. The chairman of Creation Capital is Wade Nesmith, a lawyer who as a senior partner, specialised in securities law with Lang Michener LLP (now McMillan LLP) (1993 - 1998). He was the founder of Primero Mining Corp ("Primero). He served in the capacity of director of the Company from October, 2008 to May, 2018 when Primero was acquired by First Majestic Silver Corp. He was a founding director of Westport Fuel Systems Inc. and from 1998 to 2003 he worked for Westport, helping to lead their public markets activities and retiring as President, Westport Europe. He was also a founding director of Wheaton Precious Metals Corp. (formerly Silver Wheaton Corp.) (TSX, NYSE), serving from 2004 to 2016. Mr. Nesmith is also currently a director Westport Fuel Systems Inc. and was appointed to its board in June, 2017.
Creation Capital intends to raise C$12.0 million by way of a private placement ("Private Placement") in order to, inter alia, fund the purchase of Greenlane and to fund its ongoing working capital requirements.
Trading in the common shares of Creation Capital will be suspended on TSX-V with effect from today, 10 December 2018 and are expected to remain halted until the completion of the acquisition of Greenlane and the Private Placement, which is expected in late January 2019 ("Completion").
Summary of the Sale
The consideration for the Sale is as follows:
· £5.0 million payable in cash on Completion;
· £2.0 million payable in common shares of Creation Capital on Completion, to be issued at a price per share equal to the Private Placement price; and
· £4.1 million by way of a promissory note (the "Promissory Note") to be issued by Creation Capital to Pressure Technologies on Completion. The Promissory Note will (i) be denominated 50 per cent. in pounds sterling and 50 percent in Canadian dollars; (ii) mature 24 months from Completion; and (iii) bear interest at the rate of 7% per annum.
A Pressure Technologies nominee will be appointed as an observer of all Creation Capital board meetings and activities until such time as the Promissory Note, together with all accrued and unpaid interest, is paid in full and retired.
Benefits of the Sale
The cash to be received by the Group on Completion will be used to pay down the Group's debt and the strengthened balance sheet will enable the Group to focus investment on its core specialist engineering businesses. As at 31 March 2018, the Group's net debt was £9.3 million.
Background to the Sale
As set out in the Group's Interim Report, announced on 12 June 2018, the Board stated that it was considering a number of strategic options to realise the potential in the AE Division and unlock better value for shareholders.
Greenlane is a world leader in technology used to upgrade biogas generated from landfills, waste water treatment plants, and agricultural and food waste into a clean and marketable renewable natural gas product. Greenlane has been in operation for over 30 years and has supplied over 100 biogas upgrading units in 18 countries worldwide, including the first upgrading systems in 11 countries and the world's first and second largest biogas upgrading facilities in Germany and Canada. Greenlane designs and supplies the equipment used to upgrade biogas produced by the anaerobic digestion of organic waste to a high-quality methane product suitable for either injection into the natural gas grid or direct use as vehicle fuel. Greenlane, headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, is the operating entity of the AE Division of Pressure Technologies.
For the full year ended 30 September 2017, the AE Division had revenue of £15.8 million and was breakeven at the operating profit level. In the six months to 31 March 2018, it had revenue of £2.8 million and an operating loss of £0.8 million. Net assets at 30 September 2017 were £14.7 million.
Further Details of the Sale
The Sale constitutes a substantial transaction for Pressure Technologies for the purposes of Rule 12 of the AIM Rules.
The Promissory Note will be secured by all of the assets of Greenlane including a pledge of the shares of Greenlane. The payment of the principal together with any and all accrued but unpaid interest on the Promissory Note will be made by way of balloon payment on maturity unless repaid earlier by Creation Capital.
The completion of the Sale remains subject to a number of terms and conditions, including, among other things:
· Completion of the Private Placement;
· Creation Capital obtaining all necessary consents, orders and regulatory approvals, including the conditional approval of the TSX Venture Exchange;
· no material adverse changes occurring in of either Creation Capital or Greenlane;
· completion of customary due diligence; and
· other standard conditions of closing for a transaction in the nature of the Sale.
As part of the review of strategic options, the Group engaged Creation Partners LLP ("Creation Partners") to provide strategic advice relating to a potential divestiture of the AE Division. Creation Partners is a limited liability partnership that is controlled by Wade Nesmith, David Demers and David Blaiklock, each of whom is a director of Creation Capital. An advisory fee of no more than 4% of the consideration will be paid to Creation Partners from the Group's share consideration, 50% of which will be received by Creation Partners upon Completion and 50% of which will be deposited in escrow and received by Creation Partners upon repayment of the Promissory Note.
Full year results
The Group will announce its full year results for the year ended 29 September 2018 on Tuesday 11 December 2018.
Chris Walters, Chief Executive
Joanna Allen, Chief Financial Officer
Keeley Clarke, Investor Relations
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Company description - www.pressuretechnologies.com
With its head office in Sheffield, Pressure Technologies was founded on its leading market position as a designer and manufacturer of high-pressure components and systems serving the global energy, defence and industrial gases markets. Today it continues to serve those markets from a broader engineering base with specialist precision engineering businesses and has a worldwide presence in Alternative Energy as a global leader in biogas upgrading.
Pressure Technologies has three divisions, Precision Machined Components, Cylinders and Alternative Energy, serving four main markets: oil and gas, defence, industrial gases and alternative energy.
Precision Machined Components - www.pt-pmc.com
● Al-Met, Mid Glamorgan, acquired in 2010 www.almet.co.uk
● Roota Engineering, Rotherham, acquired in March 2014 www.roota.co.uk
● Quadscot, Glasgow, acquired in October 2014 www.quadscot.co.uk
● Martract Limited, Barton-on-Humber, acquired in December 2016 www.martract.co.uk
● Chesterfield Special Cylinders, Sheffield, IPO cornerstone in 2007 and includes, CSC Deutschland Gmbh, which is based in Dorsten, Germany and Chesterfield Special Cylinders Inc. which is based in Houston, USA www.chesterfieldcylinders.com
● Greenlane Biogas, Vancouver, Canada and Sheffield, UK; acquired in October 2014 www.greenlanebiogas.com
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FDA Law Blog: Court Rules that FDA's FOIA Expedited Processing Procedures Are Legal but Requires FDA to Immediately Produce Certain Records
Court Rules that FDA's FOIA Expedited Processing Procedures Are Legal but Requires FDA to Immediately Produce Certain Records
By Jenifer R. Stach –
How often do we hear this familiar story: I submitted a request to FDA under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) but years later I have received no responsive records? Recently, two groups challenged FDA's delays in processing FOIA requests. The court's ruling in the case is quite noteworthy.
On September 20, 2016, in Treatment Action Group et. al v. Food and Drug Administration et. al, the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut granted FDA's Motion for Summary Judgment regarding its rules and policies for expedited processing of FOIA requests. However, the court also ordered FDA to immediately produce to the FOIA requesters all responsive records that FDA has gathered to date.
Plaintiffs, Treatment Action Group (TAG) and Global Health Justice Partnership (GHJP), are seeking documents of clinical trial data, communications regarding clinical trial design, and the FDA approval process for the Hepatitis C virus drugs Sovaldi (sofosbuvir) and Harvoni (sofosburvir/ledipasvir).
TAG and GHJP are non-profit organizations. TAG is an independent AIDS research organization, while GHJP is affiliated with Yale Law School and the Yale School of Public Health. In a statement on the Yale Law School website, TAG and GHJP are seeking document production, "to make this data broadly available so that interested scientists can independently review that data and verify the drugs' safety, efficacy, and cost-effectiveness." FDA approved Sovaldi in December 2013, and Harvoni in October 2014.
On December 17, 2014, TAG and GHJP filed a FOIA request with FDA, including a request for expedited processing, a public interest fee waiver for duplication fees, and a fee limitation. On December 22, 2014, FDA denied the expedited processing request, stating that it would process the request in the order in which it was received. On January 26, 2015, TAG and GHJP filed an administrative appeal. On February 19, 2015, HHS sent a letter affirming the denial for expedited processing, stating that there was a failure to show a "compelling need" under 21 C.F.R. § 20.44(a). HHS stated that the FOIA request was in a queue at the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) with an estimated processing time of 18 to 24 months. On April 1, 2015, TAG and GHJP sent a letter requesting reconsideration of the denial, to which FDA and HHS did not respond. On June 25, 2015, TAG and GHJP filed their complaint in court.
Some interesting facts about the CDER FOIA process were revealed in the court's September 20, 2016 decision. Between 2012 and 2014, CDER received over 8,000 FOIA requests. Between January 1st and September 30th 2015, CDER received 2,522 requests. During this latter period, CDER processed 2,507 requests. As of September 30, 2015, CDER had a backlog of 600 FOIA requests.
FDA submitted a Declaration in the court case that noted that in addition to responding to FOIA requests, CDER also responds to document requests from Congress, the United States Government Accountability Office (GAO), other Federal agencies, and foreign, state, and local government agencies. FDA asserted that responding to these other types of requests requires the attention of three employees, who are not able to respond to FOIA requests. The Declaration also asserted that CDER is burdened with production requests from litigation, and obligations imposed on CDER under the Food and Drug Administration Amendment Act of 2006 (FDAAA). CDER currently employs 40 full time employees and one full time contractor to deal with FOIA requests. FDA also asserted that CDER has implemented a new review process to increase efficiency and the quality of the work under review.
Under 5 U.S.C. § 552(a)(6)(E)(i) and FDA's regulation, 21 C.F.R. § 20.44(a), a requestor may demonstrate a "compelling need" for expedited treatment of the release of records because either, 1) "[a] failure to obtain requested records on an expedited basis could be expected to pose an imminent threat to life or physical safety of an individual," or 2) "[w]ith respect to a request made by a person primarily engaged in disseminating information" there is an "urgency to inform the public concerning actual or alleged Federal Government activity." The Connecticut court concluded that categories of records that fit within the "compelling need" exception to normal processing of FOIA requests are "narrowly applied." Slip Op. at 12.
The court ruled that because Sovaldi and Harvoni may be used to treat a population of over 250,000 patients in 2015, there was not an "imminent threat to the life or safety of an individual" which would warrant expedited processing. Moreover, plaintiffs did not allege that there were specific medical problems that were caused or exacerbated by Sovaldi or Harvoni that could result in harm to patients absent access to the records requested from FDA. Slip Op. at 12-14.
With regard to whether there is an urgent need to inform the public concerning actual or alleged federal government activity, the court ruled that generally a requestor must be primarily engaged in the dissemination of information, to the exclusion of other main activities. Slip Op. at 15. TAG is an independent AIDS research and policy think tank, and GHJP is a science-based, non-profit initiative dedicated to "improving health systems and justice" with a primary objective of facilitating "open science, community engagement, and public health." The court ruled that neither TAG nor GHJP were in the business of disseminating information as their primary activity. Slip Op. at 14-17.
With respect to the urgency to inform the public, the court noted that Sovaldi and Harvoni were approved in December 2013, and October 2014, respectively, and that by the time the plaintiffs filed their FOIA request in December 2014, there was no longer a sense of urgency to inform the public. Slip Op. at 17-19.
FDA unsuccessfully asserted that the case was moot because FDA had represented that plaintiffs' FOIA request had reached the top of the queue. The court ruled that the case was not moot because FDA had not provided plaintiffs with any records. Slip Op. at 9-11.
FDA also moved for a stay under Open America v. Watergate Special Prosecution Force, 547 F.2d 605 (D.C. Cir. 1976). FOIA requires an agency to determine whether to respond to a document request within 20 working days. The agency may also request an additional 10 working days for "unusual circumstances," for instance when there is a need to examine a large volume of documents which are demanded in a single request. Once the agency has provided notice of the extension, if the request cannot be processed within 30 days, then the agency must notify the requestor either to limit the scope of the request or arrange an alternative time frame. Under 5 U.S.C. § 552(a)(6)(C)(i), if the Government can show that exceptional circumstances exist, and the agency is exercising due diligence, then a court may allow the agency additional time to complete a review of the records. To show exceptional circumstances, the agency must show that "(1) it is deluged with a volume of requests for information on a level unanticipated by Congress; (2) existing agency resources are inadequate to deal with the volume of the requests within the time limits established; and (3) the agency can show that it is exercising due diligence in processing the request." Slip Op. at 21. The court noted that other courts have ruled that FDA has been unable to show a deluge of unanticipated requests. Slip Op. at 23-26. The Connecticut court concluded that the number of FOIA requests at FDA has actually decreased over the years, and that the additional non-FOIA requests were not unanticipated by Congress. As a result, the court denied the FDA motion to stay the proceedings. Because FDA "is both dealing with a predictable workload and not significantly understaffed, the court finds that the FDA is unable to show that its existing resources are inadequate." Slip Op. at 25. However, because FDA indicated that the FOIA request was the top of its queue, the court ordered FDA to produce all responsive documents gathered to date, and report back to the court by October 21, 2016, as to the documents yet to be produced, and a timeline for the remaining production. Slip Op. at 28.
In sum, the court largely adopted FDA's arguments that the court should not give expedited treatment to this FOIA request. We expect FDA will rely on this ruling and other previous court rulings as a justification to process FOIA requests in a "first in-first out" queue system, without expediting most FOIA requests. Nevertheless, there are certain portions of the court's ruling that may encourage other organizations to sue FDA if a FOIA request is not timely answered, and perhaps even seek expedited treatment for the processing of the request.
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The action comes after SLOCEA notified the county that its members had called for a strike as a result of failed contract negotiations.
A potential strike could reportedly begin as soon as December 4.
County officials say "deficiencies" in the union's strike notice violate state labor laws so they've asked the California Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) to investigate. The county says it hopes the investigation will prompt SLOCEA to identify the dates of the strike and agree upon which employees serving in public health and safety roles would be exempted from the strike.
"The County is not trying to prevent a strike, but we need to be sure that any strike doesn't jeopardize the health and safety of County residents," County Administrative Officer Wade Horton said in a statement released Wednesday.
SLOCEA General Manager Pat McNamara says the county's action was not unexpected and SLOCEA will be filing their opposition soon.
"We only today received the County's list of employee classifications it deems to be essential," McNamara told KSBY News. "Had we received it when it was originally requested this issue could have been resolved without all of the drama and expense to taxpayers."
SLOCEA represents more than 1,700 county employees.
The two sides have reportedly been negotiating for months. McNamara says union members believe the county is treating them unfairly. They're asking for an additional 2.5 percent wage increase for employees, restoration of minimum pay for on-call employees, and an increase in medical contributions for all employees.
The county says that unless its issues with SLOCEA are resolved with PERB's help, PERB may file a lawsuit in San Luis Obispo County Superior Court next week.
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