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Upottery Reserves swapped places with Queens Head to move into fourth place in the Macron League Division Six table after an impressive 4-1 win at the home of the Exeter-based club.
When the sides had met at Glebe Park earlier in the campaign the Exeter side had won the game by a single goal.
Both teams made slow starts to the game before the action burst into life with Cody Tratt-Skinner picking up the ball outside the area, before setting himself and unleashing a tremendous left-footed strike that left the home side stunned and gave Upottery a 1-0 interval lead.
It was a terrific opening 10 minutes of the second half that saw Upottery score three more times with Tratt-Skinner completing a hat-trick and the third was a fantastic team goal – the ball being crossed in by Tratt-Skinner for Harry Leisk to drill it along the goal line prior to a neat finish from Owen McCreadie-Taylor.
With the score at 4-0, Upottery looked very comfortable, but unfortunately switched off momentarily 10 minutes from end and gifted Queens Head a consolation goal.
The Man of the Match award winner was 16-year-old Cody Tratt-Skinner, who was simply 'too hot to handle' for the home side. Another to catch the eye was Jay Williams, who slotted into a different role as left back where he did a tremendous job working tirelessly throughout for his teammates.


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In 2021, various advancements in artificial intelligence came to light. From computer vision and edge AI to responsible AI, software coding and more, it felt as though every day brought a new breakthrough. Throughout the year, companies came to realise that they must be well-versed in AI tech in order to bring the best value to their workforces, customers and products.
According to a new Forrester report, this year, forward-thinking companies will 'take advantage of the breakneck innovation in AI technologies to bolster their teams with design and testing competencies, incorporate responsible AI practices, create immersive experiences with computer vision (CV) for their workforce and even deploy AI to drive innovation.'
Investment in AI isn't stopping anytime soon. The next wave of AI will be 'responsible, immersive, creative and embedded.'
So, what exactly does 2022 have in store?
The Next Wave of AI
Last year, enterprises adopted AI en masse, making it even more critical to future business success. Thanks to the way AI enables speed, creativity, connectedness and an interdisciplinary approach, corporations that implement these technologies are well positioned to jump ahead of the game.
The top areas of interest according to the Forrester report include:
Embedded AI. One in five organisations will invest heavily in 'AI inside' in order to improve their real-time response capabilities. 'AI inside' refers to AI being embedded in all parts of the business, from its very structure to its day-to-day operations. This helps bridge the gap between business and customers.
In 2022, the use of real-time systems infused with AI is expected to increase by 20%, removing the latency between insight, decision and results. Enterprises embarking on embedded AI initiatives should 'align process journey maps to decision flows, insight flows and data flows to ensure the highest potential from AI.
Responsible AI. This market is predicted to double in 2022. Companies with responsible AI can ensure that principles such as transparency and fairness are truly being followed. Right now, it's valued at around €67 million, but it's likely that demand for these solutions will double in the coming year.
Existing machine learning vendors like DataRobot, Google and Microsoft will likely acquire specialised responsible AI vendors such as TruEra and CognitiveScale. So, enterprises that choose to invest in responsible AI will have the opportunity to incorporate concepts such as planned bias detection, interpretability and model lineage capabilities into their business models.
3D Computer Vision. This will bring the metaverse, where physical and digital meet, to life in 2022. The consumer metaverse bubble is expected to explode in 2022 thanks to 'regulations in cryptocurrency and gaming, insufficient connectivity for real-time experience and the lack of mechanisms to overcome foul play.'
The next step is clear: 3D computer vision is critical for the successful construction of the metaverse, relying on unique rendering and recognition abilities as well as precise, multitarget, real-time positioning.
Forrester reports that 15% of non-tech companies will look for AI specialists in their teams.
As AI adoption grows, more brands hope to count on software engineering design practices to create AI-infused products and applications. These skills previously only mattered for the tech elite, but now they are applicable everywhere.
Regardless of industry, the best companies will include customer experience designers and software testing experts early on in the development of their AI projects.
'Creativity was once thought to be the sole provenance of humans.' But now we know better.
Last year, a creative AI system in South Africa called DABUS earned a patent, the first non-human patent awarded. This will stimulate further innovation in creative AI as we move into 2022.
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Джеймс Патрик Данливи (Донливи) (; 23 апреля 1926, Нью-Йорк — 11 сентября 2017, Маллингар) — писатель, ирландец американского происхождения, родился в Нью-Йорке в семье ирландских эмигрантов. Служил на флоте во время Второй мировой войны, после чего переехал в Ирландию, где обучался в Тринити Колледж (Дублин) и принял ирландское гражданство.

Данливи является одним из представителей американской школы «чёрного юмора», постмодернистской ветки американской прозы. Наибольшую (и скандальную) известность ему принёс роман «Человек с огоньком» («The Ginger Man»). Этот роман был начат Данливи уже в его бытность студентом, однако все попытки опубликовать его и в Ирландии, и в Америке обернулись неудачей. Американские издатели единодушно отвергли роман, «сочтя его грязной книгой, нечитабельной и непристойной». «Человек с огоньком» был издан только в 1955 году в Париже. Российскому читателю также известен роман «Волшебная сказка Нью-Йорка» («A Fairy Tale of New York»).

Избранные произведения
 Человек с огоньком (The Ginger Man, 1955)
 Уникальный человек (A Singular Man, 1963)
 Встреться с Создателем, сумасшедшая молекула (Meet My Maker the Mad Molecule, 1964) — сборник рассказов
 Самый сумрачный сезон Сэмюэля С. (The Saddest Summer of Samuel S., 1966)
 Едоки лука (The Onion Eaters, 1971)
 Волшебная сказка Нью-Йорка (A Fairy Tale of New York, 1973)
 Деяния Дарси Дансера, джентльмена (The Destinies of Darcy Dancer, Gentleman, 1977)
 Шульц (Schultz, 1979)
 Лейла: Продолжение деяний Дарси Дансера, джентльмена (Leila: Further in the Destinies of Darcy Dancer, Gentleman, 1990)
 Не слушаете ли вы рабби Лоева? (Are You Listening Rabbi Loew, 1987)
 Этот Дарси, этот Дансер, этот джентльмен (That Darcy, That Dancer, That Gentleman, 1990)
 Дама, любившая чистые уборные (The Lady Who Liked Clean Rest Rooms, 1997)
 В Принстоне распространяют ложную информацию (Wrong Information is Being Given Out at Princeton, 1998)

Литература
 Зверев А. М. Модернизм в литературе США. М.: Наука, 1979. С. 224—234 и др.

Ссылки
 Текст «Волшебной сказки Нью-Йорка» в переводе Сергея Ильина
 JPDonleavyCompendium.org
 1988 Интервью с Дж. П.Данливи — RealAudio
 Пари Ревю Интервью «Искусство Вымысла», no. 53

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Karl Rove, Steroids, Movie Slump, Snakes on a Plane!, Why Mustard?
I get alot of emails these days asking for a new Vern Tell's It Like It Is column, with all the political business. Because there's so much going on and some people I guess want to know what I have to say about it. Except one guy. There was the guy who wrote to me to say I was good with movies but I need to never talk about politics because I just copy the "talking points" from moveon.org. I checked out that web sight and it was a good suggestion but I couldn't find a link for the talking points so I guess maybe that's why I haven't done a new column in a while.
Obviously the first order of business has to be this Valerie Plame/Karl Rove thing. But I mean, I don't got much to say that hasn't been said already. My reaction when I first heard about it obviously was like Roddy Piper in THEY LIVE when he sees all the rich ladies in fur coats and businessmen in ties are actually skeleton faced alien invaders, and he says, "It fuckin figures." I remember Joe Wilson saying way back when this thing started that he thought Karl Rove was the leaker, and I wondered why he'd say that if there wasn't more to it we didn't know about. But then he backed off from that statement and I was as surprised as anyone to see it actually come out into the open all this time later.
Those first couple press briefings with Scott McLellan were fuckin A+ comedy classics. Man he must've been surprised to find out that somebody had attached balls to the entire press corps over the weekend. And disappointed not to have Ashton Kutcher ever show up. Also of note, the recent incident with Robert Benedict Arnold Novak losing it on "Inside Politics." If you missed it, they were talking about Katherine Harris and James Carville made a little snipe at Novak about having to prove to the Wall Street Journal editorial page that he had backbone (not sure I totally follow that one), Novak said, "I think that's bullshit and I hate that." Then after a moment of contemplation he just got up and walked away like he was suffering from dementia.
I don't think he did it on purpose but I gotta thank James Carville for being the one to finally get Novak booted off of TV. I can't believe how long CNN was willing to pretend that dickhead was a worthwhile expert whose opinion we should listen to. I'm sure alot of you got grey hairs yelling at the TV during the election coverage every time he offered an opinion. WELL OF COURSE YOU'RE GONNA SAY THAT YOU ASSHOLE, YOU'RE THEIR FUCKING HENCHMAN. He outs a CIA agent for them, then he's supposed to turn around and give a fair assessment of the election? It's like Igor doing an analysis of Dr. Frankenstein.
Also I'm not surprised to see Judy Miller wrapped up in this whole mess. I got no idea if the theories about her involvement in the leak are true, but if so it'll be "It fuckin figures" again. It felt pretty fishy hearing about her as a great champion for journalists when she's probaly the biggest symbol of how far journalism has sunk. If you haven't been keeping score, she's the one who wrote all those stories on the front page of the New York Times about supposed proof of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The stories were obvious horse shit at the time, I'm sure I ranted about them in one of these columns if you go back and look. Her sources turned out to be Ahmad Chalabi and Curveball, completely discredited people who no reasonable person trusted at the time and whose claims in those articles have since been disproven and debunked twenty-six ways to Sunday.
Years down the line, regardless of how the leak probe goes, Judy Miller will be one of the villains of this whole fiasco. She was a willing pawn to the administration and without her or somebody like her willing to do that job, the war might never have happened.
adminstration sends Miller one crazy charlatan wanted for bank fraud who hasn't been in Iraq since he was a kid but who they plan to install as president. (That didn't work out, and then they accused him of being a spy for Iran. Long story.)
Miller prints obvious bullshit stories based on that one guy's made up stories.
Dick Cheney goes on talk shows and quotes the New York Times article as evidence of weapons.
All news channels now believe that it is a proven fact because Dick Cheney and the New York Times both said it.
Certain American suckers buy bullshit hook line and sinker.
So of course in the world we live in today, the chump who wrote those stories is declared a hero of journalism. I don't know if they do it on purpose or if they're just such horrible people that their involvement in anything turns everything backwards and rotten. They have people talking about journalists protecting their sources and comparing it to Watergate. But it's backwards. In Watergate, the anonymous source was a whistleblower. In this one, the anonymous source is somebody high up in the government, leaking information in order to punish a whistleblower. They got us twisted around trying to defend their right to abuse power.
By the way, you gotta appreciate the irony of Bush's buddy Rafael Palmero testing positive for steroids. Remember during that state of the union speech when Bush talked about steroids being a problem in pro sports? And even back then, when everybody was bending over backwards to pretend he was doing a good job, people were scratching their heads. What the shit? Our buildings are falling, our freedom is eroding, nuclear weapons are growing like dandelions and you're worried because Bret Boone looks more muscular than he used to?
Of course, one thing politicians love is wasting their time on phoney non-issues like violent movies, rock music, video games, satanism, steroids, killer robots, etc. So next thing you know congress has decided this is more important than health care, not dying, etc. and congress holds hearings. And at these hearings, Bush's buddy Palmero, recent record breaker and legendary boner bearer, testifies that he does not use steroids. Which it turns out, may have been an exaggeration.
Whoops.
Good job, Bush.
MOVIE SLUMP
Ah, shit. Let's talk about movies now. I keep reading about this movie slump, I guess movies aren't making as much money as they did last year and that pretty much proves that movies are dead forever and everybody's just gonna read books, talk to each other, etc.
Well I don't know about all that but personally I thought this was the best summer for movies in a long god damn time. I mean I guess I avoided the ones that looked bad, but I didn't see too many pictures I didn't like this summer. I liked the Star Wars, I liked the Batman, I was really surprised by War of the Worlds, I loved Land of the Dead. More recently Devil's Rejects although that one's not for everybody.
(By the way, too bad about Matthew McGrory, who died Tuesday at only 32. In a great cast of crazies he was my favorite character, Tiny, the giant with the bag over his head. He also played a giant in BIG FISH.)
I gotta admit I even saw some kiddie movies that were good. Howling Castle was cool, Chocolate Factory was fun, Bad News Bears had kids swearing which is very realistic. Stealth wasn't good but then, I didn't want it to be good. Wedding Crashers was about the only thing I saw that was alot worse than I was hoping. So fuck money, man, I'm okay with the movie slump so far. More slump, please.
SNAKES ON A PLANE!
If there's one movie that's gonna turn the slump around though I guarantee it's SNAKES ON A PLANE. That's right, somebody tipped me off, according to fangoria.com I got my wish and they switched the title back. I loved that title because it is not a metaphor, it is actually a movie about snakes on a plane.
You would see that movie, right? Of course you would. But then they changed the title to PACIFIC AIR FLIGHT 121 or some stupid shit like that. I complained about it in my Ain't It Cool News review of Steve Seagal's SUBMERGED and it seemed like the people of America agreed with me. Just the other day I was telling somebody they'll probaly change it back because of RED EYE and FLIGHT PLAN. With Pacific Air 121 people would mix up the different airplane thrillers. But call it SNAKES ON A PLANE and everybody will forget about that other shit.
However, since the story on fangoria.com did not specify a reason for the switch, I will assume they read my review of SUBMERGED and have been having meetings about it for months trying to make it happen.
WHY MUSTARD?
One last thing. You see this picture here? What the fuck is this?
I'll tell you what it is. It's two people pouring mustard on a god damn Ruffle. Now I'm not trying to single out Newport. Only Kool rivals them in providing fine opportunities for prisoners to collect points and earn items such as t-shirts and hats. But come on, man. Pouring mustard on a Ruffle? Why would you do that? What does it mean? Why are these people enjoying it so much? And what does it have to do with cigarettes?
I know when two beautiful people are in love, and they're having some kind of barbecue with hot dogs and little chunks of unidentified meat, they tend to do crazy things. And you know, they got different kinds of flavors of chips in other countries. I know they got ketchup flavored in Canada. So maybe mustard on a Ruffle makes sense, I don't know.
But that still doesn't explain what it's doing on an ad for cigarettes. Is this a Freud thing? Maybe Freud said that if you dream about two people enjoying putting mustard on a ridged potato chip, it means buy Newports. The mustard could be a metaphor for menthol, maybe.
I figure this probaly means something, it's just over my head. So someone please explain it to me. thanks.
UPDATE: I tried putting mustard on a Ruffle. It actually wasn't that bad. But it didn't remind me of Newports really at all.
Snakes on a Plane
I DON'T KNOW IF YOU REMEMBER THIS, BUT THEY LET A PLANE HIT THE FUCKING PENTAGON / REPUBLICAN CONVENTION WRAPUP / VIETNAM IS BACK / THEY DODGE IT, YOU PAY IT / A LITTLE PEP TALK FROM VERN
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#BTEditorial – Don't shoot the messenger, Sir Frank!
It is not easy being a journalist, especially in this neck of the woods.
On the one hand you are often criticized for not being investigative enough, but the moment you expose some 'guarded truth' you are immediately branded as the worst form of human being ever known to mankind – irresponsible, reckless, sensational and bent on destroying Barbados.
This was precisely the treatment meted out to Barbados TODAY this week after we published details of the International Monetary Fund's confidential review of the Financial Services Commission (FSC) and its supervision of insurance giant Sagicor.
While careful not to challenge the existence of the said IMF report, which interestingly enough was invited by the FSC to conduct the investigation, the chairman of the regulatory authority, Sir Frank Alleyne, in a hastily arranged news conference, sought to publicly discredit this newspaper and its leadership over its decision to publish the naked truth about what the IMF has deemed to be nothing short of lax regulatory controls.
In fact, after reading the IMF's 16-page report, if anyone's reputation should be called into question it is Sir Frank's for his oversight – or lack thereof – of this country's financial system. And the IMF report, which has been reproduced in full on Pages 10 to 13 of today's newspaper, has said as much.
"The Financial Service Commission is exposed to significant reputational risk. The current organizational structure of the FSC's resource teams responsible for regulation and supervision results in operational silos. The current structure, coupled with limited resources available to fulfill its mandate create vulnerabilities, and significant reputational risk for the agency," the IMF explicitly said in the document in which it also expressed concern that the FSC was suffering from "implementation paralysis".
This was explained to mean that "there is a general lack of confidence and fear to adopt policies and procedures that have been recommended by various expert reports".
The IMF also raised concern about the FSC's supervision, or lack thereof, of Sagicor, which we also note has equally been attempting to bury its head in the sand – though perhaps a tad more eloquently than Sir Frank – following our publication of what is a most damning assessment of the way our financial regulator regulates.
But it is not our report. It is the IMF's. Frankly, it is the FSC's report, produced by the IMF. We are just the messenger, who incidentally happens to be made up of several investors and policyholders in Sagicor, which is also a client of ours.
Therefore, it benefits us none to seek to "inaccurately" portray it as the IMF has done as a high risk agency that on account of wanton supervision could one day come back to haunt us in the very way, or worse than, what occurred over the last decade in relation to CLICO.
"The Sagicor group poses systemic risk for the Caribbean region, which should be monitored on an ongoing basis. The size and complexity of the SG operating in 21 countries throughout the Caribbean, and holding assets equivalent to about 50 per cent of the GDP of Barbados, is larger than CLICO before it collapsed. The FSC-Barbados is currently not in a position to conduct group-wide supervision, and solo supervision is weak," the IMF said.
It has therefore called for enhanced regulation and supervision of Sagicor to be viewed as a priority to reduce systemic risk to the financial sector in most countries within the Caribbean.
"Given the potential cost that could arise from the failure or near failure of the group, enacting regulations and/or guidelines that align with R-SIFI designation, and conducting the corresponding group-wide intrusive supervision of Sagicor are desirable objectives," the report said.
"In this respect, the recommendations provided should be implemented, along with a desirable level of technical assistance to ensure successful implementation," it added.
With the situation as it stands, we reckon that it would be in the best interest of all concerned for the FSC to get to work immediately to mitigate the risk.
Sagicor is also duty bound to provide a clearer picture of its plans for Barbados in view of the advice its senior officials gave to the IMF of plans to establish a reinsurance operation in Bermuda, and of the company's request to the Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA) to be the agency responsible for group-wide supervision.
What does this all mean in terms of the Barbados operation? Could it mean that you are preparing to shut shop?
As guardians of the truth we would like to know.
Agree don't shoot the messengers in this instance who are IMF and Barbados Today do that to garbage worthless FSC and it's cronies.


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Do You Know (Jessica Simpson album)
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Do You Know may refer to:
"Do You Know? (The Ping Pong Song)", a song by Enrique Iglesias
"Do You Know (What it Takes)", a song by Robyn
"Do You Know", a song by Michelle Gayle from Sensational, later covered by BCD Project and Angel City
"Do You Know (Knife in Your Back)", a song by Killradio
"Do You Know?", a song by Puff Daddy from No Way Out
"Do You Know", a song by Quietdrive from Leaving Dramatics EP
"Do You Know", a song by Soul Asylum from Say What You Will, Clarence...Karl Sold the Truck
"Do You Know", a song by Xscape from Traces of My Lipstick
"Do You Know", a song by The Cranberries from Wake Up and Smell the Coffee
"Theme from Mahogany", also known as "Do You Know Where You're Going To" or just "Do You Know"
Do You Know (Michelle Williams album) an album from Michelle Williams, and the title song
Do You Know (Jessica Simpson album), an album from Jessica Simpson
"Do You Know", the album's title track, featuring Dolly Parton
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"Do You Know? (The Ping Pong Song)" is a pop song from singer Enrique Iglesias. It is the first single from his album Insomniac and takes the latter part of its English name from the sample of a ping pong ball bouncing that is employed as a percussion track throughout the song. The song's Spanish version is entitled "Dímelo" and was released to Latin radio, becoming Iglesia's 17th number one song on the US Billboard Hot Latin Songs. In 2007 the song sold 3.1 million copies worldwide.
Iglesias himself generally refers to the song as simply "Do You Know?", as it was his record label's insistence to add on "The Ping Pong Song" in parentheses to make it more distinctive and marketable.
The instrumental backing tracks are based on sampled loops from the well-known production company Bunker 8 Digital Labs. These samples include all of the original tracks in "Otiga Verde" from the sample library. The opening piano, guitar chord riffs, and lead sound synthesizer which is heard throughout the song are directly lifted from the individual sample loops.
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Do You Know is the sixth studio album by American singer Jessica Simpson. The album was released on September 9, 2008, in the United States by a joint-venture between Columbia Nashville and Epic Records. The album is her first effort in an attempt to cross over to country music. Songwriter Brett James produced the album along with John Shanks. The album debuted at #1 in the Billboard Country Charts and at #4 in the Billboard 200 with sales of 65,000.
After the release of her 2006 pop album A Public Affair, Simpson stated she wanted to go back to her roots and do country music because she "has been brought up around country music", and wants to give something back. Simpson had already sung country themed songs previous like "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'". She started her country move by appearing in the music video for "You Don't Think I'm Funny Anymore", by country legend Willie Nelson. She then went to Nashville to start recording her album.
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How Do You Know is a 2010 romantic comedy drama film directed, written and produced by James L. Brooks. It stars Reese Witherspoon, Paul Rudd, Owen Wilson and Jack Nicholson.
The film was shot in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. It was released on December 12, 2010. It was the third film to feature Witherspoon and Rudd following 1998's Overnight Delivery and 2009's Monsters vs. Aliens
The film was a critical and financial failure, grossing $48 million against a $100 million budget.
Softball player Lisa Jorgenson (Reese Witherspoon) is devastated when she is left off the Team USA roster. Unsure what to do next, Lisa begins dating Matty Reynolds (Owen Wilson), a pitcher for the Washington Nationals. She also receives an intriguing phone call from a young executive, George Madison (Paul Rudd), who was advised by a friend of Lisa's to give her a call. George calls out of politeness because he wants to explain that his relationship with his girlfriend has just become more serious. But life takes an abrupt turn for the worse for George when he suddenly finds himself the target of a federal criminal investigation for corporate malfeasance at a company run by his father, Charles Madison (Jack Nicholson). George is fired from his job and abandoned by the company, with the exception of his father and his pregnant secretary, Annie (Kathryn Hahn).
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April 24, 2015 - Endress+Hauser acquires Colsein in Colombia, its longtime sales and service partner in Bogotà.
After two decades serving the Columbian market, the Endress+Hauser name stands for quality, safety and reliability. To fortify the brand even further, the company is acquiring 100 percent of the process automation business of Colsein Ltda., its longtime sales and service partner in Bogotà.
"We believe Columbia represents a market with great potential for further growth," explains Michael Ziesemer, Chief Operating Officer of the Endress+Hauser Group. To date, the Swiss measurement and process automation specialist has been represented by local partner Colsein Ltda., whose portfolio includes a wide range of services such as calibration, maintenance and engineering, in addition to its sales activities.
With a population of almost 50 million, Columbia is one of South America's most populated countries, second only to Brazil. After Chile, it's considered the continent's largest growth market. Although the oil and gas industry is the main driver of economic development, state-of-the-art measurement and automation technology is also helping to make process technologies efficient, safe and environmentally compatible in the food & beverage, water & wastewater and power & energy industries.


Your scones look perfect. A cream tea is a real treat, not one I indulge in often, esp as my DH doesn't like cream!
Thank you Janice: With cream is certainly a treat but not good on the waistline!
Lovely looking scones. A true Cornish treat – much wrangling will go on between Devon and Cornwall on this one, but I'm sticking with my side of the border.
I don't mind which side of the border either, Choclette, or in fact where in the country they come from – actually those pictured are London Scones. Blame Delia for the original title!


Fréjus is found in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France. This stunning town neighbours Saint-Raphaël, when you visit Frejus you'll notice that there are mountains, sea and endless beaches to explore.
Forum Julii still has a lot of its ruins. There's the Roman Amphitheatre, arcades of the Oree Gate, and remains of the Aqueduct arches. There is also the Cathedrale, Chapel Jean Cocteau, Aurelienne's villa and Aurelien's park.
When you rent a holiday home in Frejus you'll be spoilt for things to do. The church of St. Maximinus, begun towards the end of the thirteenth century and completed by the end of the fifteenth century, is a relevant example of pointed architecture in the south of France. The head of St. Mary Magdalen is honoured here.
When you stay in self-catering accommodation in Frejus you'll be able to indulge the sense in one of the town's numerous fairs which are held throughout the year. For example there is a pottery fair and the Bravade (street market bargains) – all held in and amongst its Roman and Gothic architecture.
Frejus is very conscious of its natural heritage, fringing the north of Frejus there is the massif de l'Esterel. Here there are plenty of walks to enjoy, the most recommended one is the infamous Barrage de Malpasset dam, which in 1959 burst - only the ancient monuments withstood the flood waters. Today you can spot all sorts of Mediterranean flora: heather, pine, oak and wild strawberry trees.
Frejus is located on the Côte d'Azur and enjoys a Mediterranean climate with hot, dry summers and mild, humid winters. Frejus summers are long and warm, with summer daytime temperatures regularly hitting 30°C. Temperatures remain high from June to September; a Mediterranean breeze keeps summer evenings comfortably cool. Temperatures drop below 10°C for only three months of the year (December to February). The spring and autumn are also warm.
Fréjus train station offers connections to several regional destinations. At nearby St Raphael the rail station offers national, regional and local train services. International scheduled air passenger services are available at Nice international airport, forty-five kilometres away. There is also Marseille Provence airport 118 kilometres away. Both offer regular flights from the UK. By road, take the A8 and leave at the exit for Frejus/St Raphael.


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Hubble celebrates 30 years of science
FROM THE March 2020 ISSUE
The world's favorite orbiting observatory has transformed our knowledge about exoplanet atmospheres, the fate of the universe, and almost everything in between.
By Richard Talcott | Published: Sunday, March 1, 2020
RELATED TOPICS: HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE
One of the Milky Way's premier star factories is the Carina Nebula (NGC 3372), which came to life about 3 million years ago when stars first ignited in a cloud of molecular hydrogen. In this view, jets of gas erupt from infant stars emerging from their birthplaces.
NASA/ESA/M. Livio and the Hubble 20th Anniversary Team (STScI)
It's hard to believe that nearly half the people alive today have never known a world without the Hubble Space Telescope. The space shuttle Discovery blasted off with its precious cargo from Kennedy Space Center on April 24, 1990, and the next day, the shuttle's five-person crew deployed the school-bus-sized observatory in low Earth orbit. In the 30 years since, Hubble has helped redefine our universe, tackling problems that had plagued astronomers for decades, as well as discovering new mysteries no one imagined.
The Hubble Space Telescope floats free in low Earth orbit after astronauts completed the fifth and final servicing mission in May 2009. With its new complement of instruments, it was ready for the 21st century's second decade.
Of course, Hubble's history has not been without glitches. The most critical appeared within weeks of its deployment. Early images revealed that the telescope's 2.4-meter mirror was flawed — its edges were too flat by 2 micrometers, or roughly 1/50 the width of a human hair — and could not focus light sharply. For a telescope whose whole raison d'être was to deliver crystal-clear views of the cosmos from above the distorting effects of Earth's atmosphere, the imperfection was more than disheartening.
Fortunately, NASA designed Hubble to be serviced regularly. On December 3, 1993, a team of seven astronauts rocketed into orbit aboard the space shuttle Endeavour. Their most important task: Install two new instruments that would serve as "eyeglasses" and transform fuzzy images into crystal clarity.
Four subsequent servicing missions — the final one in May 2009 — have completely revamped the observatory and made it into a 21st-century science machine. It has captured more than 1 million images of the cosmos, exploring objects as near as the Moon and as distant as some of the first galaxies to form in the early universe. And it has studied myriad examples of almost every type of target that lies between.
In January 2002, the star at the center of this image flared to became one of our galaxy's most luminous suns. This view from October 2004 captures surrounding shells of dust lit up by the eruption.
NASA/ESA/The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Planetary weather satellite
When people think of Hubble, most picture stunning images of Milky Way nebulae and colorful galaxies. But scientists often set their sights closer to home. No spacecraft has visited Uranus or Neptune since the 1980s, leaving Hubble and large ground-based telescopes to take up the slack. The space telescope has shown Uranus, which appeared as a bland, bluish ball when Voyager 2 flew past in 1986, to be an active world boasting bright clouds of methane. And in Neptune's atmosphere, Hubble has tracked massive storms, some as big as Earth, propelled by winds that average 900 mph (1,450 km/h).
Hubble also has tracked storms on Jupiter and Saturn, augmenting observations made by orbiting spacecraft. And it was the space telescope that first detected evidence that water vapor may be erupting from Jupiter's moon Europa. The plumes likely represent material from an underground ocean venting through the moon's icy crust.
Hubble played a key role in the success of NASA's New Horizons' mission to Pluto. Between 2005 and 2012, the orbiting observatory discovered four new targets for New Horizons: the small moons Hydra, Nix, Kerberos, and Styx. But, more importantly, observations made over several years mapped light and dark regions on the dwarf planet's surface. The brightest of these areas so intrigued New Horizons scientists that they targeted the flyby so it would be front and center at closest approach in July 2015. That's how we learned so much about the heart-shaped, nitrogen-ice glacier now known as Tombaugh Regio. Hubble also discovered the Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69, since named Arrokoth, that New Horizons flew past January 1, 2019.
Stellar winds from a massive star (the image's brightest star) carved the intricate contours of the Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635). The bubble has a bluish tinge, thanks to short-wavelength radiation emanating from ionized oxygen atoms.
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Beyond the solar system, Hubble opened a new window into star birth and star death. Raised above Earth's obscuring atmosphere, the space telescope collects not only visible light but also ultraviolet and infrared radiation (light with wavelengths slightly shorter and longer, respectively, than what we can see). The extra information lets scientists probe deeper into the thick clouds of gas and dust that harbor young stars.
Now astronomers can observe fledgling stars in gaseous nebulae as they emerge from their birth cocoons. They can watch the hottest of these stellar youths excavate cavities in their surroundings and erode dust-filled pillars where new stars are trying to form. In the nearby Orion Nebula, Hubble revealed protoplanetary disks surrounding dozens of baby stars. These dusty disks appear to be the raw material nature uses to create planets.
The Crab Nebula (M1) represents the glowing tendrils of a massive star that earthbound observers saw explode nearly 1,000 years ago, in the year 1054. Astronomers have been able to deduce the nebula's expansion rate thanks in part to Hubble observations.
NASA/ESA/Allison Loll and Jeff Hester (Arizona State University)
When Hubble launched, scientists counted only nine planets in the universe. (This was before Pluto's demotion to dwarf planet status in 2006.) Since the early 1990s, astronomers have discovered more than 4,000 planets orbiting other stars. Although the space telescope contributed only a handful to this total, its spectrographs have analyzed the atmospheres of several exoplanets. Perhaps most intriguingly, Hubble has detected significant amounts of water vapor on a few of these worlds.
The lives of stars play out over millions, billions, and sometimes trillions of years, and the space telescope has given astronomers front-row seats to study nearly every stage of stellar evolution. A star like the Sun will eventually puff off its outer layers, creating a glowing death shroud known as a planetary nebula. Hubble has explored dozens of these beautiful structures and found them to be far more complex than previously suspected. Instead of exhaling one dying breath, many Sun-like stars experience multiple death throes. Intricate shapes develop as newly ejected gas interacts with material from older eruptions.
Galaxies like the beautiful Whirlpool (M51) played a key role in many of Hubble's cosmological discoveries. Such island universes are held together by dark matter, harbor supermassive black holes at their centers, help define the expansion rate of the cosmos, and fly away from one another at increasing rates thanks to dark energy.
NASA/ESA/S. Beckwith (STScI)/The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Massive explosions
Not all stars are destined to die in relative peace. Stars that begin life with more than 8 or so solar masses exit this universe in violent supernova explosions. These titanic blasts seed the cosmos with heavy elements while leaving behind a highly compressed stellar core — either a neutron star or black hole. Hubble has studied the remnants of these explosions, tracing the elements ejected in the blasts and watching as their gaseous tendrils evolve slowly with time.
Perhaps most importantly, the space telescope has tracked the remnant developing around the site of Supernova 1987A, a supergiant star that exploded in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) — the Milky Way's largest satellite galaxy — in February 1987. Over the past 30 years, Hubble has witnessed the supernova's blast wave lighting up gas ejected by its progenitor star some 20,000 years earlier, and watched as the budding supernova remnant has taken shape.
Spiral galaxy M106 in Canes Venatici helped nail down the Hubble constant. A water maser orbiting its central supermassive black hole yielded the spiral's distance, which Hubble scientists then used to help calibrate the Cepheid variable stars in the galaxy.
NASA/ESA/The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)/ R. Gendler (for the Hubble Heritage Team)
The telescope's sharp eye has roamed all over the LMC. Its investigation of the Tarantula Nebula — the largest known star-forming region in the universe — resolved one longstanding mystery about the cluster in the Tarantula's heart. The cluster's core, dubbed R136a, appeared to be a single star weighing 1,000 solar masses or more, far bigger than astrophysicists deem possible. But Hubble resolved the cluster's dense core into several smaller stars. Although many tip the scale at more than 100 solar masses, making them among the heftiest stars known, they no longer violate physical law. Hubble's LMC observations show the telescope can see objects in nearby galaxies in the same detail once possible only in the Milky Way.
Black holes (almost) everywhere
As Hubble cast its eye deeper into the universe, it made one discovery after another. Perhaps none stirred the public's imagination more than confirmation that black holes exist, and that they play vital roles in the evolution of galaxies. This signature achievement came in the 1990s, when Hubble examined the cores of M84 and M87, two of the largest galaxies in the nearby Virgo Cluster. This collection of thousands of galaxies lies some 50 million light-years from Earth. Using spectrographs to examine the rapid gas motions in the cores of these galaxies, the telescope revealed a supermassive black hole lurking at the center of each. Although earlier observations had hinted that black holes might exist in some galaxies, Hubble provided ironclad proof.
Like the Milky Way, NGC 1300 in Eridanus is a barred spiral galaxy that spans a bit more than 100,000 light-years. In such galaxies, spiral arms wind out from the ends of a star-filled bar.
But even more importantly, Hubble found supermassive black holes to be common. Essentially every galaxy that possesses a dense, spherical bulge of stars surrounding its center hosts one of these beasts. These black holes range in size from perhaps 100,000 solar masses in dwarf galaxies to several billion solar masses in the biggest island universes. Hubble also showed that a black hole and its host galaxy are intimately linked: The masses of the stellar bulge and black hole grow in tandem.
Of course, Hubble doesn't restrict its gaze to the hearts of galaxies. It routinely explores individual stars known as Cepheid variables in nearby galaxies to pin down the expansion rate of the universe. Known as the Hubble constant after American astronomer Edwin Hubble, who discovered this expansion and for whom the space telescope is named, the rate plays a fundamental role in cosmology.
Cepheids serve as a critical rung on the cosmic distance ladder because the period of their pulsations tracks with their intrinsic luminosity. Observe how bright one appears in the sky and you can calculate how far away it is. Then measure how fast its host galaxy recedes from Earth and you get the expansion rate. Thirty years of Hubble observations have pinpointed the expansion rate at 73 kilometers per second per megaparsec (one megaparsec equals 3.26 million light-years). Oddly enough, measurements from the European Space Agency's Planck satellite give a value of 67, and scientists have yet to figure out how to bridge the gap. (See "Tension at the heart of cosmology" in the June 2019 issue.)
Tidal forces have pulled material from this pair of interacting spiral galaxies. The Mice sideswiped each other 160 million years ago and are now heading back for round two. Eventually, they will merge into a single elliptical galaxy.
NASA/ESA/H. Ford (JHU)/G. Illingworth (UCSC/LO)/M. Clampin (STScI)/ G. Hartig (STScI)/The ACS Science Team
When the space telescope looks at galaxies in full, it usually finds a neighbor or two. In fact, Hubble has shown that collisions between galaxies are more the rule than the exception. Some of these collisions are in their early stages. For example, the Whirlpool Galaxy and its companion, NGC 5195, show only subtle traces of an initial interaction. Others, such as the Mice, display the distorted shapes and long tidal tails that develop as gravity acts over longer periods of time. And still others, exemplified by the Antennae galaxies, are experiencing a full-blown impact. Here, the galaxies have lost much of their individual identities as gas clouds ram into one another and trigger a maelstrom of star birth.
Speaking of galaxy collisions, Hubble has verified that the Milky Way is not immune. Detailed observations of our large neighbor, the Andromeda Galaxy, show that it is on a collision course with our galaxy and will not merely pass closely. Over the next several billion years, these two behemoths will act out the same scenes now being performed by the Mice and Antennae.
It's not surprising that galaxies collide frequently. After all, Hubble observations show that the universe holds at least 100 billion galaxies. The number comes from the study of several "deep fields" the telescope has taken by turning its cameras on small areas of apparently empty sky and exposing for days at a time. Each deep field captures thousands of galaxies, from which astronomers can estimate the universe's total number.
Spectra made by Hubble and its sister Great Observatory, the Spitzer Space Telescope, helped nail down the atmospheric composition of this Saturn-mass exoplanet. The observations show the presence of water vapor and several other important compounds.
Astronomy: Roen Kelly, after NASA/ESA/G. Bacon and A. Feild (STScI)/H. Wakeford (STScI/Univ. of Exeter)
To the dark side
Hubble's sensitive detectors only pick up the light coming from celestial objects. But clever scientists have used its observations to map out the darkness that dominates our universe. Dark matter is a mysterious material that radiates no light but whose gravity serves as the glue that holds individual galaxies and galaxy clusters together. It makes up 27 percent of the mass-energy content of the universe, more than five times what the normal matter that forms stars, planets, and people contributes.
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The space telescope has been able to map the distribution of cosmic dark matter despite its invisibility. When astronomers look at large galaxy clusters, they often see wispy arcs and, sometimes, multiple images of background galaxies gravitationally lensed by material in the foreground cluster. These lenses magnify and distort light from more distant objects. Astronomers dissect Hubble's images and calculate where dark matter has to be to produce the observed distortions.
Hubble has studied the aftermath of Supernova 1987A throughout its 30 years in orbit. In this view, released in 2011, the progenitor star's tattered remains appear as an irregular blob at center, while the bright ring surrounding it consists of material the star released 20,000 years earlier that the supernova's shock wave is lighting up.
NASA/ESA/Pete Challis (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
Although astronomers had seen hints that presaged many of Hubble's notable findings, the telescope's greatest discovery came out of the blue. Two research groups — one led by Saul Perlmutter of the University of California, Berkeley, and the other by Brian Schmidt at the Australian National University — were observing distant type Ia supernovae. These blasts occur in binary star systems in which a white dwarf pulls material from a red giant companion. When the white dwarf reaches around 1.4 solar masses, it explodes.
Because type Ia supernovae arise from nearly identical progenitor stars, their peak luminosities match. So, once astronomers see how bright the supernova appears, they can calculate its distance. The teams found that the most distant type Ia explosions were fainter than their distances implied. The only way this made sense is if some force, dubbed "dark energy," is accelerating cosmic expansion. Planck showed that dark energy accounts for about 68 percent of the universe's mass-energy content, a sign that our universe will expand forever at an ever-increasing rate.
Despite Hubble's wealth of scientific accomplishments, the beauty of its images ranks among its chief legacies. Who isn't moved at seeing stars literally come to life in the glowing gas of a nearby nebula, watching the delicate tendrils of a dying star whose path the Sun will follow one day, or viewing the dramatic spiral structure of a nearby galaxy?
Nearly every image has its own charm, no doubt because it reflects the beauty inherent in nature. And, with any luck, the hits will keep coming for many more years.
Hubble spots a cosmic cinnamon bun
No crystal balls
Under the stellar sea: Hubble captures a Cosmic Reef
How Hubble opened our eyes to the universe's first galaxies
Hubble peers into a Cosmic Reef
A starry night in the Pillars of Creation
How upcoming space telescopes will work with the iconic Hubble
These colliding galaxies paint a ghostly picture
How long will the Hubble Space Telescope last?


The CEO of First Nostrum, Nirmal Muyle, has courted controversy in the US by telling the Financial Times he has a 'moral requirement' to sell his company's product, an anti-biotic mixture called Nitrofurantoin, for the highest price.
The price rise, from $474.75 to $2,392 last month, follows an increase in Casper Pharma's own branded version of the drug, Furadantin, to $2,800. By contrast, a similar sized dosage of the medicine is priced in the UK at £446.95.
Muyle's comments were prominent enough to provoke a written response from two Senators, Claire McCaskill (D-Missouri) and Susan Collins (R-Maine), who sent a strongly worded letter to Dr Muyle asking for more clarity on the factors that lead First Nostrum to decide on a price rise.
Drug pricing is a particularly prominent issue in the US. In July, Pfizer had reversed price rises on 100 of its products after Donald Trump, who had in the past attacked pharma companies for 'making a fortune at the expense of American patients', attacked the company in a tweet. However, this case underlines the limitations of public pressure as a price control tool.
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Toyne Recognizes 2013 Dealer Accomplishments
Breda, Iowa - Toyne dealers and employees gathered today to celebrate the past year's accomplishments of their colleagues with an awards ceremony held during Toyne's annual dealer summit.
Dale Derner, Toyne Midwest Regional Sales Manager, was recognized as the 2013 Salesman of the Year. The Most Improved Dealership Award, recognizing the Toyne dealer with the highest increase in sales over the previous year, was awarded to Tri-State Fire of Monogahela, Penn. Meanwhile, the Million Dollar Club recognizes individuals whose Toyne fire apparatus sales reached seven figures in the past year and that honor went to Dick Shakerley of VRS Sales. Shakerley's other emergency vehicle venture, Shakerley Fire Truck Sales in Round Lake, New York, was presented with an engraved axe bearing his dealership's name, marking their location as the recipient of the Toyne 2013 Dealer of the Year Award.
In addition to being part of this year's awards ceremony, Toyne dealers were among the first to view the company's new branding and integrated marketing campaign designed to inspire and evolve the entire organization. Participants were greeted with a presentation from President & CEO Mike Schwabe and National Sales Manager Mike Watts, introducing them to Toyne's new logo and corporate positioning statement, "Built to take the call." The company also debuted their updated literature as well as the newly designed Toyne website. All of the enhanced elements are designed to emphasize Toyne's commitment to quality and unique customization capabilities.
"There's no doubt that our dealers are an integral part of the Toyne team," said President & CEO Mike Schwabe. "We are pleased to be able to honor the extraordinary efforts of select individuals while coming together as a unit to recognize the exciting future that lies ahead of everyone involved with the Toyne organization."


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Q: java: Map view that hides the entry with a null key? I have a Map<String,String> which contains a special value with a null key. It's not so easy to change things so I don't have this.
Is there a way to do either of the following:

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*make a view of this map that is also a Map<String,String> which hides the null-key entry

*make a view of the map's keySet() which hides the null-key entry

By "view" I mean that changes in the map produce changes in the view.
I assume the latter is easier but I don't know how to do it.

A: The simple method is to extend your map and override the proper methods to check for null key values. These would be:
containsKey(Object key)
entrySet()
get(Object key)
keySet()
put(K key, V value)
putAll(Map<? extends K,? extends V> m)

You could also implement your own object extending Map and pass your Map-with-null in the constructor and perform check/controls when one of the above methods are called.
If you are open to external libraries, you could take a look at PredicatedMap.

A: If the value with the null key is a special case and not meant to be used when you access the entries, why is it in the map? Is there a reason why you decided to put it in the map instead of having different string variable?
It sounds like it would be easier to use a different approach instead of trying to extend the map to have some special properties for this one case. This would also would be more explicit in showing that this string value is a special value and not something that could trip up future developers who have to look at this code after you.

A: I used Guava's Maps.filterKeys(); that worked fine.
 Maps.filterKeys(mymap, new Predicate<String>() {
    @Override public boolean apply(String key) { return key != null; }
 }),


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BESM Dungeon
I tried running a solo game for Russell, using the new Big Eyes, Small Mouth: Dungeon pregenerated adventure. I'd been wanting to try BESM, just to see how the system worked, and this seemed like a good opportunity. As it turns out, BESM isn't bad–I think a bit better in terms of chargen than actual play (the combat system in particular has the feature that equally good opponents will actually score a hit on eachother at most 25% of the time–which makes for pretty long combats without a lot of decision points); it's close enough to my homebrew that in the future I'll probably either swipe some of it for the homebrew (I like the point cost system for buying unique powers), or if I run any BESM tweak it with house rules from my homebrew (e.g. making degree of success matter in combat would fix the problem I mentioned).
That being said, though, the editing in Dungeon was horrible: bad enough that it nearly negates the usefulness of having the adventure written out for you. For instance, it provides templates to make it quick to create a character–but the templates have enough errors and omissions in them that you really have to recalculate them from scratch before using them. Similarly, the random encounter charts helpfully indicate the page numbers for the creatures encountered, but those pages turn out to be templates for creating monsters, not fully-stated monsters. The idea, I suppose, is that you can adjust the difficulty to match the party; in practice it means that you have to spend time building the monsters in advance or try to do it on the fly during the game. I did the latter, and accidentally made the first encounter too tough and it wiped out Russell's party (timely intervention by an NPC that they had rescued saved them, but still…) Even the monster encounters that are fully worked have problems: one room (that Russell never got to) said it contained a necromancer and twelve zombies. A sentence later it said "Both zombies have swords." Looking at the description of the necromancer to try and settle whether it's twelve or two zombies shows that he doesn't have enough points allocated for twelve unless they are flunkies who can't attack (but that's not how their stats look–they have fighting skills and are built on double the points of a flunky), but it's not enough points for two servants (who can attack) who are a powerful as the zombie description, either. Argh.
The final verdict: BESM, pretty cool rules-light system, but needing some tweaks to make it scale and speed combat. BESM Dungeon: waste of time and effort.
From Russell
To answer Rachel, I guess the Sunday game was on hiatus for wedding-related reasons the last two weeks. I came back to visit Josh this weekend, and ran a second Hero-Cities adventure.
The group was Eldor, the slacker elf sorceror (Doug); Rolly, the indestructible dwarf wizard (Paul); Bronwyn the Dostoevsky priestess (Josh) [I think he means Tolstoy (War and Peace) — Josh]; and a new fighter who adopted the nom de guerre "Bob" (Mike). We had some important character insights this game. For example, Eldor's bad French accent is the result of a contagious disease that Bronwyn caught during the course of the adventure, but which mutated into Spanish, probably in Rachel's honor. Rolly speaks fluent pig Latin. Mike names all his character's WEAPONS but not his character.
Plot summary: A recon mission sent to spy on the gnolls has gone missing in Yaga's Forest (aka, a bad place to be after dark). Since Belaphon the naiad couldn't locate them by scrying, their commander concluded that they were probably in one of the entrances to the Armory, which is magically protected against divination. Our quartet volunteered to be one of several groups, each sent to look at an entrance. In fact, in Bronwyn's words:
"Ooh! Ooh! Since we're the PC's, we volunteer to go to the entrance where they ACTUALLY ARE!".
Each group is given a supply of healing potions for the people they are saving, and a few other supplies, like a whispering wind scroll to summon help from the officer corps. They go together to a few miles of the Armory, then split up. A wild boar and a few healing potions later, they find that as usual Bronwyn is correct. A trail of blood and consumed healing potions leads them to the entrance to the tunnel. As they are about to reach the tunnel, they are ambushed by two gnoll trackers, but Rolly puts one to sleep and "Bob" and Bronwyn beat up the other.
They find the tunnel, which is marked with the sign of the Hikitami cult in mud fingerprints. Since one of the MIA's was in that cult, they decide to use the scroll to report success. But it will take up to half an hour for an officer to reach them, so they go inside the tunnel. "Bob" (very luckily) finds a trip-wire, and the group avoids it. A few hundred yards later, he finds a pit-trap, but not so luckily, he finds it by falling inside. A few healing potions later, the group is on the other side,and has reset the trap just in time to hear "Snap! Aaarggh!!!" from back down the corridor. Another group of gnolls has entered the tunnels, and got caught in the arrow trap the PC's avoided.
Two gnolls appear in view down the corridor. They rush towards the party, just in time for Eldor to summon magical grease, on which they slide right into the pit trap, landing on their heads. But it's not over. The boss gnoll is behind the cannon-fodder. "Bob" valiantly if not too cleverly jumps over the pit, sliding on the grease [Actually Eldor cancelled the spell — Josh] towards the boss. He takes on the boss in single combat, but gets some magic missile support from the magicians. The boss decides to flee, but is shot full of arrows by Eldor and Bronwyn as he turns to leave.
A few healing potions and a net trap later, they find the missing party. They use up the last of their healing magic getting that group conscious — Rapsel the Hikitami cultist was the only one functional. She had found, disabled and then reset the tunnel traps to ward off the gnolls that had been following their group. The druid officer Lilamir arrived, in the form of an owl, and escorted them back to the rendezvous, where they were congratulated and rewarded for their success.
Don't you people game anymore? We wanna hear the gory details here in Vancouver! How're we supposed to live vicariously through y'all if y'all don't write up your campaigns?
And speaking of gory details, how was Wendy's wedding? 😉
Guest GM report
I was guest GM at both last Friday and Sunday's games. Both games are set
in my fantasy world where adventuring types are organized into hero-cults,
dedicated to deeds worthy of the founding hero (and drawing power from the
said hero). The Friday group consists of Bell the very good-looking paladin (Josh),
Erabod the elven wizard and cook (Mike), Duramir the dwarven warrior (Walter),
Ostiel the uninhibited ranger who speaks many animal languages (Mac), and
Haha al-Ish, a part-Jannii priestess of Rai-Nocturne (sun god, night goddess) (Beth).
They were looking for a worg that was spying on Rurik the Smith and his forge,
but never found it. I blame the drive down. After Philadelphia traffic, I must have
been subconsciously avoiding further confrontations.. I didn't even know how to
react when Erabod asked an elderly hobbit druidess if he could look at her melons.
Was this an innuendo or did he have a devious plan to lure the worg
with canteloupe?
Anyway, i was about to burn my GM screen when I ran the Sunday game. This
was a blast, even if I didn't get most of the in-jokes. The group was
Bronwyn, the priestess of Belic-Serene (war and peace, with a heavy
emphasis on WAR) (Josh), Soren of Molosh, a mighty and clever warrior
woman (Wendy), Eldor, an adolescent (very adolescent) elven sorceror
(Doug), and Rally the indestructible dwarven wizard (Paul).
The group encountered ghouls who had followed a path cut through
what is normally a defensive hedge on the border of the Haunted
Lands. After dispatching them, they followed the same path that
the ghouls had been following. They found a group of
merchants who had been robbed by bandits, then attacked
by ghouls, and was currently in sorry state. After bringing
them to safety, and a night of carousing, they hurried on their
way to their original destination, the town of Lillibridge.
In Lillibridge, they were suprised to meet the very same merchant
that they had rescued! The "merchant" acted in a suspicious
manner, and they eventually realized that he was actually a
disguised bandit, who had come to town to fence the stolen
merchandise. After failing to lure the group to his room, the
bandit snuck up behind Rally as he was interogating the bandit's
assitant Corwin in the stable. The bandit hit Rally by suprise,
(twice!), but didn't dent his thick skull. Once Eldor and Soren
ran to his aid, they quickly captured the bandit, just as
Bronwyn ran up with a group of guards to capture his accomplice.


Raisa Cacciatore MD, is a child psychiatrist, adolescent health specialist, and a certified EMDR therapist. She provides training to professionals and to parents, and has written many textbooks and works of nonfiction, including Save the Boys. She is currently writing her dissertation on the topic of supporting children's sexuality. Raisa has received lifetime achievement awards from the Finnish Cultural Foundation (2011) and the Association of Finnish Non-Fiction Writers (2016), as well as the State Award for Public Information (2017).
Erja Korteniemi-Poikela is a midwife, nurse, clinical sexologist, and nonfiction author. She has had a long career working with the sexual health of adults, children, and adolescents, and has co-authored several nonfiction books with Raisa Cacciatore. Erja was chosen Midwife Innovator of the Year in 2000, and in 2004, received the School Health Deed of the Year award from the Finnish Association of School and Student Health for her work on the Steps to Sexual Maturity learning materials published by the Finnish National Agency for Education.
The duo's previous collaborations include several books for adolescents, parents and professionals alike.


Due to Hurricane Florence, this event will be rescheduled. Date TBD.
Migratory monarch butterflies are heading south this time of year. You can learn how to help them survive through their big journey.
From 1pm to 4pm we will have monarch butterfly themed story time, crafts, and games for children in our Forest Discovery Center.
At 2pm Monarch Watch Conservation Specialist Joyce Pearsall will present a monarch butterfly program in our Forest Discovery Center. The program will include information about the monarch butterfly life cycle, annual migration, and the threats the species faces. At 3:30pm, Joyce will lead a walk to the Cradle's Monarch Waystation and explain how you can help monarchs in your yard.
"Bring Back the Monarchs" is a nationwide campaign thru the nonprofit Monarch Watch. "The goals of this program are to restore 20 milkweed species, used by monarch caterpillars as food, to their native ranges throughout the United States and to encourage the planting of nectar-producing native flowers that support adult monarchs and other pollinators." The Monarch Waystation initiative encourages participation in conservation of these butterflies at any sites across the nation. You can visit the website to learn what you need and how you can certify your site.


There is no age limit for High Qualified candidates (who posses more than 10th Std) SC / SCA / ST / BC / BCM / MBC / DNC candidates and Destitute Widow of all communities.
35 years age limit for SC / SCA / ST candidates and Destitute Widow of all communities.
32 years age limit for BC / BCM / MBC / DNC candidates and Destitute Widow of all communities.
30 years age limit for UR candidates.
45 years for SC / SCA / ST candidates and Destitute Widow of all communities.
Interview / Oral Test - 40 marks.
22.11.2018 : Due to Kaja Cyclone, TNPSC has been extended the last date for application registration upto 28th November 2018.
30.11.2018 : Once again TNPSC has been extended the last date upto 10th December, for the benefit of Delta region candidates.
12.04.2019 : Certificate Verification will be held on 25.04.2019 to 06.05.2019 for the candidates, who has been selected / shortlisted through the written examination.
sslc apply panalma...but preferential qulaification ilyae..


Shannon Sky is an American glamour model.
"Hi! My name is Shannon Sky and I'm so excited to have you checking out my site! I was born in Ohio an only child with big dreams of acting and modeling someday. These recurring thoughts wouldn't leave me no matter how much I ignored them. Voted "most wild and crazy" and "class clown" in high school..that pretty much sums up my personality...i luv to have a good time and be the life of the party! I'm a total people person and I luv meeting all kinds of people from all walks of life!
I also luv to workout and eat healthy (unless it's cheat day ...in which case, you may find me eating pizza....mmmmmmmmmmmm and chocolate covered strawberries...yummy..;p) Fitness is a huge part of my life! I luv how it makes my body look and feel and how i feel inside when I do it. I get so much personal gratification out of it! I just luv it!!!
I am a full time model and I absolutely luv being in front of the camera...I spent many years following other people's dreams and visions and pushing mine to the side..allowing others to dictate who I would become while trying to fit me in their molds. Well there is no mold for someone like me because I am a "one of a kind" and I am not like other girls.
There is no stereotype of someone like me. Just when you think you've figured me out..I will unleash one more surprise on you..;) Which keeps things fresh and exciting..I'm here to intrigue and to fascinate..not to blend in with the scenary..I'm not good at that. One morning I woke up and said.."Enough is Enough!" From that point on, I've never looked back ..I began pursuing my dreams and I'm luving life more then ever!
I am very excited to have you as a member of my site and I can't wait to share my pics with you! For me, my pics are a form of my artistic expression and a celebration of both fitness and beauty. I am not ashamed of my sexuality nor my sensuality and I look forward to sharing all of this with you...enjoy!


Highly unlikely! But that was the concern of healthcare professional, Diane.
She was upset that two colleagues were speaking together in their first language in the tearoom, at lunch. Diane walked in on their conversation, they paused and then carried on. 'It was so rude', she said, I felt excluded'.
Really? She wasn't part of their conversation and Diane agreed that she had no grounds for believing that they were talking about her.
There are many reasons why we go back to first language. It's our default position. It enables us to talk about feelings and opinions, to relate humour, to use the nuances of language that are so much easier in our mother tongue. We are most comfortable in the familiarity of language that allows us to fully express our culture and our identity.
If that language use is not affecting health & safety, or productivity, or cost, or legality, then what's the issue? Why should speaking a different language be any more divisive than what we eat or wear, or what we do at the weekend? If the difference doesn't matter, then don't let it matter.


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Bolbocaffer vacivum is een keversoort uit de familie cognackevers (Bolboceratidae). De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort werd in 1901 gepubliceerd door Louis Albert Péringuey.

Cognackevers


The newly completed physical anthropology laboratory is equipped for teaching and osteological research. Teaching resources include a collection of casts representing various nonhuman primates, major finds in human evolution, and dental, cranial, and pathological specimens. The lab is equipped with anthropometric instruments for the measurement of living populations, and with multiple osteometric kits for hard tissue analysis. There are facilities for dissection of fleshed specimens and hoods for the use of chemical preservatives and the bedding of bone in preparation for sectioning. Other available resources include comparative casts, FORDISC software, dissecting microscopes, and a macroscope and microscope with real-time imaging.
The orientation of the laboratory at Syracuse is anatomical. There are presently no facilities for physiological or behavioral studies. The lab abides by the ethical treatment of all human remains, which includes the active engagement of descent communities in biological anthropology research.


4. Read the text and answer the questions below.
This word is not often used, and probably you've never come across it before, still a lot of people (including you may be) procrastinate every day of their lives. Longman dictionary gives the following definition: to procrastinate – to delay repeatedly and without good reason doing something that must be done.
• I have too many other things to do.
• I don't feel like doing it now.
• I have a headache.
• Let me have a cup of coffee first.
• It might not work.
• I'll do it when I can concentrate on it.
• I must think about it.
• Before I start I think I'll take a break.
Well, we can think of plenty of excuses. However scientists say that the main reason for procrastination is fear or worry. We are simply afraid of doing something, so we invent excuses, try to put off doing it and secretly hope that the problem will go away by itself. It does not. Instead procrastination creates more fear and worry and more problems.
• Keep your to-do list – write down things you have to do.
• Break down big jobs into smaller parts – even five minutes is enough to do something. The most difficult thing is to start. Once you start you usually get going. So get started.
• Try to get a better sense of time. We often think the job will take forever and so we try to avoid it.
• Set deadlines to yourself. If it doesn't work, make them public.
Remember: procrastination wastes a lot of your time and time lost is lost forever, yesterday will never come back.
· Does procrastination affect your life?
Do you often put off doing something?
What do you think is the main reason for procrastination?
How can we fight a habit of putting off difficult tasks?
5. Express the following in one word.
6. Fill in the correct word from the list below.
1 There's always the temptation to … the most difficult task till last.
2 He … until it was too late.
3 He's always making … for being late.
4 Try to … danger.
5 The thought of … years behind him made Mark sick with bitterness.
6 He had all the attributes of a great leader: charisma, energy, ... and resourcefulness.
7 All great leaders share certain characteristics which must be seen as the key to their ... .
7. Complete the following text with the words in the box.
Let me make a suggestion to help you (1) ____ with difficult situations. If, for example, you are taking part in a sports competition, meeting someone important, or giving a performance in front of a large audience, you will probably be quite (2) ____, and worry that you will not be as (3) ____ as you would like to be. What you need to do is to (4) ____ yourself thoroughly by running through the whole activity over and over again in your mind, (5) ____ going through every detail. For example, a (6) ____ pianist, imprisoned for seven years for political reasons, could still play magnificently on his release. When asked how he (7) ____ to play so well, his explanation was that he had practiced every day in his mind.


Max Keiser, the host of RT's 'Keiser Report,' is a former stockbroker, the inventor of virtual specialist technology and co-founder of the Hollywood Stock Exchange.
Additional sanctions on Russia may make the American economy suffer greatly, says Max Keiser, host of RT's 'Keiser Report.' Germany is not going to go along with the sanctions; they are just pushing Germany into the arms of Russia, he adds.
Trump's presidency will be a fantastic test to see whether the US constitution actually works and a 'reasonably intelligent guy with good intentions' can appear from the private sector to take the role, said RT host and financial analyst Max Keiser.
Former European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso, who was complicit in helping Goldman Sachs defraud the Greek economy, is now taking a job with the company. Financial analyst Max Keiser says this is crony capitalism and corruption at the highest level.
Should Greece leave the Eurozone and fail to pay its debts, it could trigger the downfall of Deutsche Bank and a crisis worse than that of 2008 – and it is more likely to happen than not, Max Keiser has told RT.
A blockade on the truth in America can be broken by billboard campaigns, like that criticizing Fox News host Sean Hannity, with the involvement of crowdfunding and cryptocurrency, Max Keiser, the host of RT's 'Keiser Report', told RT.
The US economy is trapped between two economic barriers that effectively are whittling away America's global dominance: the Federal Reserve Bank and the minimum wage laws.
America's Bureau of Labor Statistics reports inflation in the US running at 1.5 percent.
Good Bye, Lenin! is a 2003 German tragicomedy film. Directed by Wolfgang Becker captures the confusion inhabitants of East Germany (the GDR) had after the Berlin Wall came down and the West suddenly flooded in.
Would you take a 50% loss on your house to save a banker's life?
Why so many banker suicides?Zerohedge reports that suicide-banker no. 14, a 52-year-old banker at France's Bred-Banque-Populaire, died after jumping from the 14th floor of the bank's Paris headquarters.


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Meet Eventing's new glamour couple …
Dynavyte's Elite riders Andrew Cooper and Maddy Wilson, have recently become engaged and moved to Queensland
The couple have had a big six months. In October they got engaged, in November they competed with much success at the International 3Day Event in Adelaide, and early this year they moved from Victoria to Queensland.
In Queensland they have bought a Thoroughbred spelling business located at Moorwincha, which they will run together while still riding, teaching and competing. It's allot, but they wouldn't have it any other way preferring to work outside every day with horses, than sitting in an office all day, every day.
It is a homecoming of sorts for Maddy who is originally from Birkdale in Queensland, whereas Andrew grew up in Wagga Wagga in New South Wales.
Early Days:
Andrew took to horses when he was five, and the first pony he sat on was his grandfather's Welsh, Sam. His grandfather used to train some trotters, but his parents certainly weren't interested. "My family aren't horsey at all, but they have been super supportive of me throughout my career."
Maddy started riding when she was six months old, her first ponies' name was Lulu. "My older siblings used to ride, but not anymore, I just followed in their foot steps, and now I'm hooked."
Today with Andrew 27, and Maddy 25, their main focus is 3Day Eventing. Both have a special love of the Thoroughbred, retraining off the track Thoroughbreds and breaking in horses.
Andrew says "I really love a Thoroughbred. I don't think you can beat a good one, one that moves well enough and has a good brain, although they are hard to find. I look for a very good jumper.I think they need to be careful at the end of the day, especially the way that the scoring has gone."
As well as finding some nice horses off the track, the couple breed some and are not adverse to "random purchases".
Their training methods they believe are straightforward …"Keep it simple and keep the horses happy." And their advice to others …"Never give up".
Maddy says what keeps them "hooked" is "Our love for horses, and our competitive natures", which makes for an interesting partnership to say the least !
Andrew "It's hard with horses being a seven day a week job. There's not really much spare time. Maddy and I try to go out for dinner or lunch on our day off … There's not much time to go and do anything else and you are usually pretty buggered, you have a little sleep when you have a spare second".
Big Things:
For Andrew it was competing for Australia at the 2017 Oceania Championships at Melbourne 3DE, also being awarded the Anna Savage award in 2017 for best and fairest.
For Maddy it was competing for Australia at the 2019 Oceania Championships at Taupo, New Zealand.
Both wish to represent Australia again, whether that is at the Olympic Games or WEG. It's the next step, they don't know when this will be, but in the meantime they are working on their current team of horses with this goal in mind, to have them performing well, very, very well.
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CHAPTER 11: Shell insider information
We receive insider information about Shell from a variety of sources. From disgruntled Shell employees; from Shell itself in response to Subject Access Requests; from information, Shell has sent to us by accident and from searching and retrieving documents from court files. We have, for example, published a leaked internal email from an incoming Chief Executive Officer of Royal Dutch Shell Plc on the same day he sent it, resulting in another huge embarrassment for Shell.
As indicated above, we receive insider information about Shell from a number of different sources.
The first is from Shell itself.
Shell has supplied Shell internal documents and internal emails directly to me in compliance with a series of SAR applications.
The internal documents revealed that Shell secretly set up a counter-measures team and mounted a global spying operation in a determined, but unsuccessful bid to stop the flow of Shell insider information to me.
Another source is from disgruntled Shell employees who have supplied insider information and Shell internal documents and internal emails.
The leaks have been very damaging to Shell, generating many news articles around the world, including a front story in the Financial Times.
On occasion, we have published internal emails from the most senior executive directors of Royal Dutch Shell Plc on the day they were sent e.g. this email from the then incoming Chief Executive Officer, Mr Peter Voser.
We have also received Shell email sent to us in error. In June 2004, Richard Wiseman accidentally sent us a copy of an email about my father that he had intended to send only to the then Chief Executive Officer of Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Jeroen van der Veer, and the then No. 2 at Shell, Mr Malcolm Brinded. Consequently, we knew that the top executive directors had been kept personally informed about our activities. It was also apparent from the email that Shell "PX" kept a standard response about us ready to use as needed. An item we have never seen despite numerous SAR applications.
I receive information from an American Pacer account that provides me with access to the USA courts electronic filing system. I search Pacer from time to time for litigation relating to Shell and make the documents freely available on my website. I have published many thousands of pages from legal documents, witness statements etc that would otherwise be hidden behind a paywall.
Prominent retired Royal Dutch Shell Group senior staff have contributed highly informative comments/articles published on the royaldutchshellplc.com website. They include former global executive Paddy Briggs; retired HSE Group Auditor, Bill Campbell, and retired Global Chief Petroleum Engineer, Iain Percival. This input provides an additional source of "insider" expert information.
I have provided examples in this chapters screenshot gallery of articles published by the world's leading financial news media resulting from Shell insider information leaked to me.
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Operation BP:>Bullshit Plug
Operation BP: bullshit plug overview:
"BP's PR machine is leaking bullshit at an uncontrollable rate ... "
Operation BP: Bullshit Plug: our first print-and-play game! We started doing these as an outlet for small, quick ideas that could never be turned into full-scale board games, but made us chuckle enough to realise in some way. This first game is about the criminal way that BP were more concerned about their public image rather than fixing them colossal damage they'd caused following the deepwater horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
This is a Printable Game
All you need to do is download the game files, print them off and you're good to go. Any boards, playing tokens, cards etc. are included in the files, but you may need to source some other bits yourself - typically dice, paper & some coins as counters.
You will need: Scissors. 2x coins as counters.
DOWNLOAD: High-res jpeg (1.3Mb) | PDF (2.6Mb)
About Bullshit Plug
This game is for two players. Each player takes a role - either 'BP' or 'The Public' and each player has two cards that represent two possible strategies. BP is trying to shore up its dwindling share price, while the public just want the leak plugged. Both players pick a strategy and play it face down, simultaneously. These are then revealed and the effects on the share price and the leak are worked out. This action is then repeated until the game ends. It's very simple, takes just a few minutes to play, but is also quite devilish and deceiving.
For the game-design/psychology geeks among you, Operation BP: Bullshit Plug is (as you probably know if you're a game-design/psychology geek) actually a variant of the classic Prisoner's Dilemma. In fact, it's a re-iterative prisoner's dilemma with a non-finite amount of iterations (although the iterations can safely be presumed to be fairly low in number). This makes co-operation in the game rather difficult.
Things to look out for: The game is best played without speaking. Let your actions communicate for you. In this way, co-operating and defecting can be used as both encouragement and punishment respectively. Also be aware for any patterns of tit-for-tat behaviour: these can either spiral out of control or lead to a calm compromise, depending on what behaviour is being mirrored. Above all, watch out for any possible penultimate moves in the game and think carefully about what the other player will likely play in this situation before stating your strategy.
Incidentally, there can be no greater satirical comment on this crisis than browsing the "In pictures: a response" section of the BP website. You can almost hear the grinding of marketing teeth each time they feel they have to stay on just the right side of the reality divide and include a shot of an oiled animal or soiled beach. Even those photos look remarkably clean and not much to worry about. The most incredible thing though is how everything reflects an air of calm, clean, professional control. No animals suffocating in oil, no ruined marshes, not, literally, a cloud in the sky. Now compare these.
Feel free to leave any feedback - we'll certainly do more if this turns out to be a good use for our 'reject' ideas.
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Salt and Light symposium hosts White House press correspondent Greg Clugston
Upper school arts students participating in the Salt and Light series attended the latest session with White House press correspondent Greg Clugston. Clugston is the White House correspondent for the Salem Radio Network (SRN). His daily reports on SRN News are heard on approximately 2,000 stations nationwide. Now in his 25th year at the White House, he has reported on the presidency from the Oval Office, Camp David, and even Air Force One.
Based in Washington, D.C. since 1992, Clugston has also reported from Capitol Hill, the Pentagon, and the Supreme Court. He has covered presidential inaugurations and political conventions since 2000. He also anchors special events such as State of the Union addresses and Election Night results.
Prior to his network radio work in Washington, Clugston was employed at Spring Arbor University (Michigan) as director of SAU Radio and instructor in the Communications Department. He also worked at KNWS Radio in Waterloo, Iowa. Clugston earned undergraduate degrees in Communication and English from Spring Arbor University and a master's degree in Journalism from Michigan State University.
The session provided valuable and timely insight for students on the role of journalism post-2020, the ways the journalism industry is changing, and how critical it is for journalists to lead with integrity, honestly, and accuracy in reporting. He answered questions about undergraduate training and study, reporting in the age of COVID-19, and how each presidential administration has shifted in terms of press access. Hearing Clugston describe attending historical events was inspiring. He also spoke on how his faith informs his work, inspiring him to deliver the news with integrity and honesty.


Kenya-based logistics startup Lori Systems is beginning its expansion across the continent with launches in neighbouring countries having solved a very serious problem within supply chains.
Winner of last year's TechCrunch Battlefield Africa competition, Lori Systems powers African logistics by providing supply chain management solutions to cargo owners, ensuring flexibility, reliability and cost savings.
More than 40 per cent of grain moving through Kenya to Uganda now go through the startup's platform, and it recently opened operations in Uganda, Rwanda and South Sudan. In addition to the expansion, Lori has also won multiple bids associated with the newly built US$4 billion railroad system in East Africa.
Lori was founded by chief executive officer (CEO) Josh Sandler in 2017. During his time earning his joint degree in business administration and public administration – international development, Josh researched African supply chains, with a particular focus on the cost of transport in Kenya. From this work, the idea for Lori was born.
"We saw a gap in the communication between the relevant stakeholders necessary to move cargo that led to massive inefficiencies in the system resulting in long waiting times and a large percentage of empty backhaul routes," Sandler told Disrupt Africa.
Lori connects cargo owners to transporters in Africa, providing a one-stop shop for clients who have cargo arriving in ports who use the startup's technology and operations systems to meet all of their transportation needs through its system of transporters.
"We then optimise routes and re-allocate transport if any issues arise during the transport chain, and track cargo throughout the journey and provide frequent updates to cargo owners for peace of mind," said Sandler.
To get the startup off the ground, he put together an impressive team from across the continent. Chief product officer Jean-Claude Homawoo is Togolese and joined Lori from Google, where he was a product lead. Head of commercial Andrew Musoke, a Ugandan, was previously a VP at JP Morgan, while chief operating officer Fredrik Johansson previously held the same role at a major logistics business in Sweden.
With a major problem to be solved and a strong team, Lori quickly saw impressive growth of 30 per cent month-over-month after its product launch in May 2017. Sandler said it was yet to lose a client on the platform, with its continual focus being on excellence in delivery and customer service.
The markets in which it currently operates – Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, and South Sudan – are just the start, as Lori plans to expand across the continent.