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Utility Vehicles: Sustainability Affects Product Specification
By Dan Hounsell, Editor
OTHER PARTS OF THIS ARTICLEPt. 1: This PagePt. 2: Utility Vehicles: Manufacturers Roll Out Alternative-Fuel ModelsPt. 3: Utility Vehicles: Managers Must Consider Noise, Emissions Compliance Pt. 4: Utility Vehicles to Feature On-Board ElectronicsPt. 5: PRODUCT FOCUS: Utility Vehicles
Product Focus: Utility Vehicles
What can't utility vehicles do? After all, the versatile vehicles have become workhorses of many grounds departments in large part because they can help crews perform a long list of tasks, from mowing and plowing to grading to hauling.
One thing is certain: Grounds managers will continue looking for the limits of utility vehicle performance and versatility because as financial resources become more precious, the vehicles' versatility will become even more important to managers and their departments. Among the biggest challenges for manufacturers is trying to stand out among the growing array of utility vehicles on the market.
"Utility vehicles are still relatively young," says Dan Muramoto, product manager for utility vehicles and subcompact tractors with Kubota Tractor Corp. "Most manufacturers are on their first or maybe second generation of products." Given this situation, managers can expect utility vehicles to evolve and diversify gradually as manufacturers seek to build their brands.
One issue in particular — environmental responsibility — is transforming grounds management in institutional and commercial facilities. As a result, it is affecting the array of features and functions that manufacturers are incorporating into the latest generation of utility vehicles.
Rise of Sustainability
Sustainability "has affected (utility-vehicle specification) dramatically," says Scott Breckley, vice president of sales and marketing with Columbia ParCar Corp. "More institutions and users are thinking green and looking for ways to improve sustainability.
"As they run out of the obvious areas to change, utility vehicles are now getting looked at. In particular, there has been an increasing awareness of the benefits of electric-powered vehicles, that they now have the range and power needed to do the vast majority of tasks called for by utility vehicle users."
Some markets have shown particular interest in electric vehicles.
"A lot of schools are taking a closer look at these vehicles," says Kevin Lund, John Deere's product line marketing manager for utility vehicles, adding they meet many districts' needs "because workers never get too far from a charging station."
Manufacturers believe once more managers weigh the benefits and limitations of electric-powered vehicles, they will develop more favorable impressions.
"Hybrid-electric and battery-electric will shape the future of utility vehicles," says Brian Melka, director of product management with Jacobsen. "Standard mechanical- and hydraulic-power systems will become a thing of the past. As the technology continues to progress with electric systems, people will begin to wonder why we didn't develop one sooner."
But manufacturers know many managers remain skeptical of electric-powered vehicles.
"Unfortunately, the perceptions remain that electric vehicles aren't powerful enough, don't carry enough, or don't last long enough on a single charge," Breckley says. "All of these assumptions are no longer valid in the vast majority of applications. There are still many places for internal-combustion-powered vehicles, but they are in the minority."
One such place might be in projects requiring operators to haul heavy loads.
"Longer term, technologies like hybrid-electric and battery-electric machines for heavy-duty utility vehicles will begin to take off," Melka says. "For heavy-duty applications, however, the (electric) technology is not yet available at a reasonably offsetting price point."
Lund points out another potential challenge related to electric vehicles: proper training for operators and mechanics. With traditional, non-electric vehicles, "if you have a problem, a mechanic can figure it out," he says. "With electric vehicles, you can have a hard time figuring out what's wrong. You've got to have some expertise with the vehicle."
Another issue managers should pay close attention to is the evolution of battery technology. Existing batteries limit utility vehicles' run time and range. But advances in lithium ion technology bring promise that future batteries will be lighter and smaller and, therefore, better suited for use in utility vehicles.
"As we see more lithium ion production, that'll be the big change," Lund says. "Once we see battery technology with higher densities of power, that will free up some opportunities for utility vehicles."
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Utility Vehicles: Manufacturers Roll Out Alternative-Fuel Models
Utility Vehicles: Managers Must Consider Noise, Emissions Compliance
Utility Vehicles to Feature On-Board Electronics
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Syria Joins Belt and Road as Lawmakers Warn against Assad Rehabilitation
By Jimmy Quinn
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad speaks at a meeting of his cabinet in Damascus, Syria, March 30, 2021. (SANA/Handout via Reuters)
Syrian and Chinese officials have finalized an agreement to admit Damascus to Beijing's Belt and Road Initiative, the global infrastructure investment project pushed by the Chinese Communist Party, according to SANA, Syria's state media outlet.
Per the SANA report, the agreement will help "open broad horizons of cooperation with China and a number of partner countries in the initiative in several areas, including the exchange of goods, technology, capital, activating the movement of individuals, in addition to cultural exchange."
The inking of the deal follows a trip to Syria last year by Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi. During his time in Damascus last July, Wang extended the invite to Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad to join the Belt and Road.
Syria's membership in the project comes against a backdrop of efforts by the Assad regime to rebuild Syria and reestablish diplomatic ties with other countries following the decade-long revolution that it brutally quashed.
But as Beijing tightens its grip over the country, which is focused on reconstruction efforts, there are signs that the Biden administration is letting up on the U.S. pressure campaign targeting the Syrian dictatorship. In November, for instance, the Treasury Department made it easier for U.S. enterprises to do business in Syria as long as they do so under the guise of those reconstruction efforts.
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A number of observers have also questioned whether the Biden administration is willing to proactively work to block the Syrian government from rebuilding its diplomatic relationships, a charge that U.S. officials have denied. Meanwhile, Congress passed a provision in the annual defense-authorization bill intended to pressure the administration to complete a withdrawal of U.S. forces from the northeast part of the country, as National Review first reported.
Earlier this week, the top Democrats and Republicans on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee wrote to President Biden, urging him to oppose Assad's campaign to rebuild his international standing.
"Given Assad's horrific crimes against the Syrian people, the United States has long maintained that the international community cannot reintegrate the Syrian regime without meaningful reforms that demonstrate accountability and reflect the will of the Syrian people," wrote Senators Bob Menendez and Jim Risch and Representatives Gregory Meeks and Michael McCaul.
"Your Administration should consider consequences for any nation that seeks to rehabilitate the Assad regime and to ensure that all countries understand that normalization or Assad's return to the Arab League are unacceptable. Tacit approval of formal diplomatic engagement with the Syrian regime sets a dangerous precedent for authoritarians who seek to commit similar crimes against humanity."
The lawmakers seemed to be referring more to recent diplomatic overtures by Arab countries — the UAE, Egypt, and Jordan — in 2021 than to China's relationship with Syria. But it's grimly fitting that the party is throwing a lifeline to the Syrian dictatorship, which itself runs an industrial system of mass slaughter.
Jimmy Quinn is a William F. Buckley Fellow in Political Journalism at National Review Institute. @james_t_quinn
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What is another word for carry?
move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body; " You must carry your camping gear"; " carry the suitcases to the car"; " This train is carrying nuclear waste"; " These pipes carry waste water into the river"
Certifying, Attesting, GIS, contain, exercise, assume, incur, lead, transpose, enforce, transmit, exert, implementation, include, possess, possessed, entail, Entailed, practise, involve.
captures, prevails, entails, supersedes, overrides, takes, wins, wants.
conducted, perpetuate, convey, contain, accomplish, shoulder, exercise, assume, withstand, dragging, putting, accommodate, incur, lead, transpose, enforce, incorporate, transmit, exert, broadcasting, implementation, include, administer, possess, entail, practise, involve, comply, embark, practice.
lower, maintain, remain, fix, hold, keep, receive, shun, fail, avoid, stay, dodge.
fall under, refuse, lose, let go, bar, misplace, carry on, give up, rule out, hand over, yield, misbehave, shake off, prevent, except, leave, misconduct, mislay, deny, act up, reject, pay, omit, eliminate, debar, accord, ban, prohibit, give, forfeit, surrender, grant, part, relinquish, exclude, throw down, preclude, drop.
Each of them took with him anything he could carry which was likely to be of use.
There was only one thing he was sure about: whatever the Plan was, they would have to carry it out as soon as possible.
Kerrey, Karry, Kary, Carey, Carrie, Carrey, Carie, Kerri, Kerry, Cary, kairey, Kari.
packing, portage, backpacking, fireman's carry, porterage, piggyback.
carry, convey, pipe in, comport, behave, deport, cart, conduct, bring, balance, stoop, chariot, haul, pack, return, bear, shoulder, sling, piggyback, lug, poise, fly, porter, port, motor, take, acquit, drive, tote, tug, bucket.
conveyance, transfer, transportation, transferral, transport.
execute, communicate, pass on, perform, DO, pass along, pass, put across.
go, feature, locomote, move, travel, win, have, obtain.
hold, displace, impel, move, support, sustain, hold up, propel.
circulate, grow, disseminate, diffuse, spread, broadcast, distribute, pass around, circularize, disperse, produce, raise, circularise, farm, propagate.
appropriate, bear, seize, capture, conquer.
compensate, promote, encourage, make up, even off, even out, effect, advance, even up, further, boost, correct, counterbalance.
have got, involve, range, hold, sustain, maintain, imply, keep, feature, have.


Самость - серия самобытных экспериментально-звуковых мероприятий, начатая в 2012м году.
- в этот раз Самость также является вечеринкой нас и наших друзей по случаю открытия Московской Галереи Звукового Искусства ( ссылка на сайт галереи ).
Наши гости - Аркангел Константини ( Acangel Constantini ) и Марчела Армас ( Marcela Armas ) - одни из наиболее ярких представителей Мексиканской саунд-арт сцены.
Acangel Constantini is an experimental Sound artist from mexico city, that research on transduction of processes and percepction, constructing artifacts to arise hypothesis on nature and technology.
Hysteria is the womb, and a psicological behavior by external influences during gestation.
Electromagnetism, feeback loops, induction, diamagnetism, cybernetics."
перфоманс является побочным продуктом его знаменитой инсталляции Magnetoplankton (ссылка) .
Marcela Armas works at the intersection between art, science and technology. Technology as a crystallization of imagination and emotion and therefore an extension of human nature. Armas, explores the poetic potential of materials and mechanisms as a starting point to reflect on issues that highlight the conflicting nature of social relations and human proceed from the utilitarian conception of life. She is interested in the observation of processes and material phenomena, its transformations, overflow or sound emissions as manifestations of thought. Her machines and devices are built from an inquiry into the nature of the materials they are made; the machine as meaning, matter as a carrier vehicle for history. In the realm of the sensible, collaborates with artist friends, researchers and inventors as Gilberto Esparza, Arcangelo Constantini, Ariel Guzik, Shaday Larios, Santiago Itzcoatl, Ivan Puig, Bios ExMachina colective, Elena Alvarez Buylla, among others.
Ignea is a series of sound pieces related with resistive filament by applying an electrical charge in contact with water. An immersion experience sound atmospheres generated by this phenomenon.
Возможны короткие праздничные выступления от коллег и друзей, а также джем-сейшн.


Paul Kennedy studied theatre and media at the University of Ulster. In 2009 he wrote the post-apocalyptic, site-specific theatre piece Guidelines for a Long and Happy Life for Tinderbox Theatre Company and was nominated for the Stewart Parker New Writing Award. He is also an alumni of the Abbey Theatre's New Playwright's Program. Other plays include The Black North and Lanciatore, the Juggling Man! (both for Rawlife Theatre), and Into Temptation, a one-act play performed in the Peacock Theatre at the Abbey.
For screen, Paul has written and directed the short film Noob, and the feature film Made in Belfast for which he received the New Talent Award at IrishFilmNewYork. He also has optioned screenplays to companies in Ireland and America, and is currently developing several projects for film and television, including a crime procedural for Euston North.
Paul is also an actor and counts The Fall, Game of Thrones, The Frankenstein Chronicles, Line of Duty and Ripper Street among his credits. He most recently appeared on stage in Gerry Moynihan's one-man show Continuity at the Finborough Theatre, in what the New York Times described as 'a virtuoso performance', and one for which he was nominated for an Off-West End Award.


The Shropshire Star is an evening newspaper published in several editions and sold across the county of Shropshire and neighbouring parts of Mid-Wales. It covers both the major towns of Shrewsbury and Telford, smaller towns around the county and their surrounding villages, as well as most of northern Powys and southern Denbighshire across the Welsh border.
Midland News Association introduced a part-paywall on the Shropshire Star 's website in April 2011, under which photo galleries, match analysis and real-time traffic and travel information would be available only on the premium website and via an iPhone/iPad app. Edited highlights of breaking news stories remained free. The move also affected the Star 's sister paper, the Express & Star . However, the paywall was abandoned after nine months.
However, by the end of 2011 the number of Mon-Fri issues had been reduced to five (Border, County, South, Shrewsbury and Last). Technical problems at the Ketley printworks in the spring of 2012 meant that the number of issues had to be reduced to just two, County and Last, a move which was made permanent at the end of May 2012; the Shrewsbury edition has since been revived. The Last edition is published at 1500, which the Star claims is the latest deadline in the country.
The Saturday edition was and is a bumper Weekend edition, although it doubled in size in April 2013 from 40 to 80 pages.
The Star 's also available online as an e-edition by paid subscription.


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Yeager Airport to change its name in 2022
by: Bailey Brautigan
CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK)—Charleston's Yeager Airport will be getting a new name come 2022.
According to the airport's public affairs manager, Chris Williams, the airport will be called "West Virginia International Yeager Airport" starting January 1, 2022.
How much of an economic impact does Yeager Airport have in West Virginia?
In order to be classified as an "international airport," an airport has to have a U.S. Customs Building on the premises. The airport doesn't have to have international commercial service. Since CRW's U.S. Customs Building will be ready in December, the airport is officially allowed to add "international" to its name. The airport says that this name addition will put General Yeager's legacy on an "international scale."
Prior to this name change, Yeager Airport remains one of only 31 commercial airports in the U.S. without a city, state or region in its name, and there are only five states in the country without an international airport.
Since West Virginia has added a National Park, this name change is said to help in marketing the state to leisure and business travelers.
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The TRADE > News > Asset Classes > Fixed Income > Easing the path to fixed income liquidity through technology and data
Fixed Income, Technology June 24, 2019 2:28 PM GMT
Easing the path to fixed income liquidity through technology and data
The historic barriers to entry for new technologies in the fixed income markets are. We examine how technology providers are addressing these issues and helping trading firms gain more efficient access to bond liquidity, while the buy-side grapples with the ever-present issues presented by fixed income data.
By John Brazier
Constantinos Antoniades, global head of fixed income, Liquidnet
The electronification of the fixed income markets is nothing new. This process has been at work for years, as new entrants and technologies come to the fore, some aiming to replicate the equities model. But is this making liquidity easier to source and access for fixed income traders?
Technology providers are striving to introduce new solutions and platforms for fixed income trading that will address fragmented liquidity pools and keep pace with market structure changes. It's easier said than done and the path to liquidity is littered with vendors that have been unsuccessful in such ventures.
"Liquidity formation in the corporate bond markets is unrecognisable compared to even a few years ago," says Constantinos Antoniades, global head of fixed income at Liquidnet, who states that proliferation of new technologies in this space has created more opportunities for efficiencies between bond buyers and sellers.
"The new market structure consists of three pillars – bilateral dealer-to-client voice interaction, dealer-to-client RFQ, and the newer all-to-all and dark protocols – have brought down barriers to entry. This, in turn, has led to democratisation of liquidity, and at the same time, capacity for further differentiation in execution."
One such provider of the all-to-all platform is MarketAxess, which allows buy- and sell-side firms to connect anonymously through a central network to improve liquidity and reduce transaction costs through its Open Trading platform.
MarketAxess' head of European product management, Gareth Coltman, says that Open Trading has created a "unique liquidity pool" for all types of fixed income market participants and the trading figures suggest that the industry has embraced this new model. Open Trading set a new monthly trading record of $45.5 billion in January this year, while overall trading volumes at MarketAxess also set a new record of $176.5 billion in the first month of 2019.
"Now we are moving beyond traditional RFQ-based models to look at alternatives, such as live order books," says Coltman. "In May, we announced the upcoming launch of LiveMarkets, a live order book trading model for the institutional fixed income markets – creating a real-time single view of two-way, actionable prices for the most active bonds, including newly issued debt, benchmark issues and news-driven securities."
The increased number of technology vendors in the fixed income space has led to a far more competitive ecosystem than market participants have ever operated within before, in terms of innovation, resilience and diversity – or, as Antoniades refers to it, a "primordial soup" created by technology – that is facilitating the development and delivery of new business models as new liquidity options become available.
"Electronic dark, latent, substitute and reactive liquidity are increasingly filling the markets' needs and gaps", he explains, pointing out that this new "more complex and 'less visible'" ecosystem is creating more opportunities for differentiation and alpha generation for buy-side participants.
"The reason is that depending on the use of technology, access to different types of electronic liquidity, the ability to aggregate and consume data, and last but not least trading management, where different types of assets managers can have access to a very different liquidity picture.
"As a result, two nearly identical asset managers can achieve very different execution results for the same order and a very different feedback loop for the investment process."
Changing attitudes
One of the key factors that has allowed new entrants and existing vendors to step up their game has been a shift in buy-side attitudes towards the adoption of fixed income technologies and data. Where firms may have historically relied more heavily on voice trading, the emergence of new technologies have created new opportunities for traders.
Gareth Coltman, head of European product management, MarketAxess
"Often understated in this equation is the trading management and the structure of the desk, especially around the ability to empower the buy-side trader to become a larger part of the investment process," says Liquidnet's Antoniades.
"Buy-side traders are in the front line of market intelligence and can arm their firms with an incredible combination of acumen and liquidity and pricing data, all of which can play a big role in investment decisions and performance of the fund."
However, there are definitive obstacles to achieving this harmony between the buy-side desk and newer technologies, particularly at smaller firms that have to take a more stringent approach to their technology investments. The issues presented by legacy technology are often highlighted as major hurdles to improving trading desk infrastructures, while there are some firms that still possess a trader-portfolio manager model that has been left behind by continuous evolution to the market structure.
"Paradoxically, the conversation around the ability of the modern trading desk to leverage technology does not start with the technology itself, but rather with behaviour change by trading management and traders alike."
Algomi's Eaton says that buy-side traders are displaying a much greater openness to tools that can improve trading outcomes, a definitive change from historic attitudes that such technologies could not facilitate alpha generation.
"This is now an accepted basis for moving forward," he says. Efficiency is one of the key drivers for this change of heart, alongside the ever-present need for reduced costs regardless of market conditions, and this can materialise in better decision making both pre- and post-trade, and by automating smaller-sized trades on the more liquid end of the fixed income spectrum.
The increase in automation technologies has also facilitated a shift in the way buy-side firms and traders approach the fixed income markets. As MarketAxess' Coltman points out, as asset managers see their peers and competitors embracing automation, reducing their reliance on human relationships and cutting down manual errors, they are more likely to follow a similar path.
"Banks are rolling out algos rapidly, enabling them to cope with growing demand for liquidity in a more cost-effective way," he says. "In the first quarter of 2019 there were approximately 2.2 million algo-driven responses on our trading platform for US high-grade, an increase of 126% compared to the first quarter of 2018."
The surge in automation adoption has also been propelled by the emergence of new liquidity provision sources, such as asset managers, hedge funds and exchange-traded funds, while there has also been a significant increase in algorithmic trading.
"Traditional providers are trying to evolve and automate more of their processes," says Eaton. "An example of this is the increased number of sell-side firms that have automated the pricing of their odd-lot desks. Algorithmic trading is at the forefront of these efforts.
"New entrants are looking to use technology to create workflow efficiencies and create tools to facilitate greater moves to automation, thereby freeing up time for execution desks –and other participants – to focus on tasks that are more value-added."
One of the key drivers for this surge in automation and algo usage has been data, both in terms of a cost efficiency and cost growth perspective. However, the increasing volume and complexity of data is throwing up a number of obstacles for firms seeking to leverage new information to enhance trading processes and outcomes within fixed income markets.
Data hurdles
While there have been significant efforts to bring equity-like technologies to the fixed income markets, the nature of the assets involved and the available data means that replicating an equities roadmap becomes that much harder.
"Sourcing data is a big issue for clients, as they only have their own data to start with but need to source information to get a market-wide view," says Coltman. "Extracting valuable and actionable insights from the sheer quantity of market data is a huge challenge. There are thousands of data providers out there – from counterparties to third-party pricing vendors – and clients need to capture all this data (including their own), aggregate it, remove bias and come up with insights in real-time."
Scott Eaton, CEO, Algomi
Obviously, this is no small task and requires significant investment of time and resources to address. The underlying issue to any data work is normalisation and structuring across the many different formats data is supplied in. Then there is the thorny issue of who actually owns and controls that data: Does it belong to those sell-side firms that provide prices, the buy-side firms that purchase it from the sell-side, or to the trading venues themselves?
"We would suggest that the data belongs (not in a subsequent monetisation model but for operating purposes) to the buy-side and should be theirs to do with to improve their trading outcomes," says Algomi's Eaton.
The way in which buy-side firms approach the challenges of fixed income data differ greatly depending on which regional markets they are active in; while the US markets have a form of consolidated tape data through the TRACE system, the European markets have no such counterpart, a sore subject that is a consistent talking point among participants.
The intention of making a standardised, transparent and consistent form of market data available is to create a level playing field and a baseline from which competition can spring, yet the deficiencies in these services mean the burden falls to, or the opportunities arise for, data providers to step up to the plate.
"The demand for data transparency from the marketplace is accelerating, and the regulatory framework is scattered. In the US, where TRACE has become the standard for corporates over its two decades, we have not seen any meaningful changes in quite some time, despite a rapidly evolving market structure and liquidity picture," says Coltman.
"In Europe, MiFID II had been expected to create meaningful transparency along similar lines. This has yet to happen in reality, and clients are still burdened with heavy reporting requirements."
The ultimate objective of market transparency, at least from the trader perspective, is to increase visibility into and access to liquidity. While data in OTC markets is particularly difficult to obtain, it has become a vital element of investment and trading decision-making. As such, vendors such as MarketAxess are now focusing on consolidating their data in centralised warehouses.
"Good examples including pre-trade, real-time pricing tools, liquidity assessments, and impact analyses, as well as post-trade transaction cost analysis," Coltman explains. "We believe that artificial intelligence and machine learning have an important role in overcoming both the complexity and sparseness of bond-level data that have overwhelmed traditional, more manual approaches."
There's little doubt that the trading landscape across fixed income markets has become far more complex for the buy-side to navigate, and the development of new technologies and access to data can sometimes be a detrimental force if firms lack a coherent strategy based upon these twin pillars. The need to improve efficiencies and reduce costs will only increase unless this complexity is alleviated for buy-side desks as they seek new options to source and capture liquidity.
"Despite the recent move backwards by FINRA to provide dealer protection on block trades, regulatory pressures will continue to push for post-trade transparency," says Eaton. "All we need to do is look at equities to see the path forward for fixed income transparency."
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My kids are obsessed with talking animal cartoons. It's virtually a rite of childhood passage dating back as long as I can remember – I can think of a particular mouse who seemed to have pioneered the genre. While it's pretty hilarious to watch a woolly mammoth and his cohorts escape inevitable extinction or a bunch of witty world-traveling city zoo escapees, the truth is that "real" animals can do some pretty amazing things.
GeoDash: Wild Animal Adventure is an app from the foremost authority on things that real animals do – the National Geographic Society. While nothing can compare to an actual Nat Geo magazine, Geo Dash is a very cool way to teach kiddos about animals so they are engaged and having fun.
Geo is a robot who is exploring two habitats – the African Savannah and the Amazon Rainforest. He's earning about different animals' abilities and taking on some of their characteristics by earning spinning tokens that make Geo hop like an impala or race like a cheetah, collecting rewards in the form of pictures, fun facts, and new animal abilities. With each new animal Geo discovers, a card is added to the collection.
Game play is easy – only tapping and swiping required. While it's easy enough for a preschooler, the basic tutorials are written and younger players will need help at first to learn some of the basic moves and features. Some other portions of the game also require reading so it's not a game that can be played entirely independently.
Neither of my kids are able to read fluently enough to play this game on their own so the three of us sat down together and played. They could easily maneuver Geo through the plains and the rainforest, learning about the native animals. The fun facts and animal jokes were of particular interest – my son thought it was hilarious that ostriches can roar like a lion.
At $1.99 it costs less to download this app than it does to rent a crazy talking-animal movie from Redbox. As an added bonus, the last upgrade of the app removed all in-app purchases. If your kids are ready to move on to some "real" animal fun, then GeoDash is perfect.


This week, I went on a field trip with some 7th graders at our school. We toured the EPIC company which makes medical software for hospitals and clinics. The company has three different locations in the Madison, WI area. The campus we visited had about 13 different buildings. Each building has a decorative theme. There was TONS of artwork from local artists around the buildings. It was amazing! There was so much to take pictures of, that I only took pictures of my favorites. I will tell you about the tour in two blog posts.
Here's me next to a Dr. Suess style sculpture.
This was a sculpture attached to a picture frame. The guy is super realistic looking and it kind of creeped me out when I looked at it up close.
Here's part of the outside courtyard. The 13 buildings are connected by indoor walkways.
Look at the paintings on the wall.. this was a New York themed area.
Look at this set-up in the hallway!
Wow! How cool to have a large corporation value the arts and be willing to share it with their community. How rare. I bet the students were mightily impressed!
What a fun tour. I wish when we were in school we did more things like this. I know WI is the dairy state but farm tours and apple orchards are not the only tours school kids deserve.
Nice to find another WI blogger.
BTW - next week I am hosting a giveaway. I hope you come enter, or send friends.
Love it! What a fun field trip! A close friend of mine works at Epic and I always love hearing about all the cool things that company has for it's employees- the art is fantastic! Thanks for posting!
EPIC employees a ton of people in Madison. Two of the kids we were with had parents that worked there. It was a super cool trip. I'll have to check out your blogs if you are from WI too!


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Q: Nested vs flattened pattern match in Scala Let's say that I have n values in Scala named v1, v2, ..., vi, ..., vn of types Tij that are not necessarily different types for different i. I want to pattern match against the n values using a custom logic.
One way to do it is to nest all possibilities in case I need to be exhaustive (which for the sake of this example I need to be, otherwise I could use placeholder mag_c) and I can't merge branches (which for the sake of this example I can't as every custom logic is unique):
v1 match {
  case x1: T11 => v2 match {
    case x2: T21 => v3 match {
      ...
        case xn_1: Tn_11 => vn match {
          case xn: Tn1 => // Custom logic 1.
          case xn: Tn2 => // Custom logic 2.
          ...
          case xn: Tnk => // I am already laughing, but I have to write it down:
                          // Custom logic k.
        }
        ...
      ...
    }
    case x2: T22 => v3 match {
      // I guess you get the point.
    }
    ...
  case x1: T12 => v2 match {
    // And so on until exhaustion in every meaning of the word.
  }
  ... // These three dots are needed here. Now I feel whole.
}

The other option is to flatten the whole darn thing out:
(v1, v2, ..., vn) match {
    case (x1: T11, x2: T21, ... xn: Tn1) => // Custom logic 1.
    case (x1: T11, x2: T21, ... xn: Tn2) => // Custom logic 1.
    ...
    case (x1: T11, x2: T21, ... xn: Tnk) => // Custom logic k (with a hearthy chuckle).
    ... // Three dots saving my soul and my finger joints.
}

While the nested version avoids duplicate typing, it can lead to hard-to-read code due to indentation overflow when n is high (and we are not).
On the other hand, the flattened version contains a lot of duplicate code, but is easier to interpret.
Also, the nested version seems to be more performant as the checking of xi happens maximum once per type Tij (but perhaps I should not care about such things as the JVM could just optimize it all away, and I don't want to be all evil).
Which one is idiomatic Scala code and is therefore recommended? Is there a performance difference between the two versions?

A: You should pick the option that most closely expresses the meaning of your code and not worry about performance. If the performance of this match is critical to your code then you have bigger problems with your design. (It is also not clear that one performs better than the other, so choosing based on assumed performance would be unwise).
If every case leads to an independent piece of code, then having a flat match is the most direct expression of the logic. Adding spurious nesting is just going to confuse things.
If there is some common code between two or more case expressions then they can be grouped into nested match statements so that the common code is not duplicated. This may also apply if there is some logical commonality between multiple cases that you want to expresses in the code.
Also note that you can chain partial functions using orElse which allows you to split one big match into separate functions with meaningful names, while avoiding nested match statements.

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Is Howard Stern too raunchy for primetime?
Taylor Bigler Entertainment Editor
May 07, 2012 11:29 AM ET
Radio shock-jock Howard Stern is best known for his raunchy rhetoric and oft-obscene commentary — and is not generally considered the ideal of family-friendly viewing.
Now, the nonprofit Parents Television Council is making a last-ditch effort to convince advertisers to boycott Stern's latest primetime venture, "America's Got Talent," before its May 14th premiere.
After Stern officially joined the show as a judge in December, the group publicly scorned NBC for hiring Stern as a "an act of desperation for a failing network."
In a recent letter sent to 91 advertisers and obtained by TMZ, the advocacy group urges sponsors to reconsider buying spots during the show.
"Programs like 'AGT' have offered millions of American families brief respite from the otherwise-ubiquitous stream of violent, profane and sexually explicit content on primetime," the letter reads. "NBC's decision to add Mr. Stern to 'AGT' will likely result in a sharp increase in explicit content and we urge you to be mindful when considering a media buy."
The letter questions Stern's ability to be a fair and appropriate judge by specifically referring to a statement that he made about former "American Idol" winner Fantasia Barrino when she considered appearing in Playboy.
In 2010, when it was rumored that Stern might become a judge on "American Idol," he joked that this is the type of criticism he would bring to the show.
"Hey Fantasia, you're not getting little boys hard. Nobody's beating off to you," Stern said at the time. "Little boys want boners. They want a Britney Spears or a Rihanna."
FTC did not take kindly to Stern's comments. "Stern's reputation for sleaze and misogyny is well known; and to our knowledge, his only previous judging consisted of looking at insecure, naked young women and telling them whether or not they were hot enough to pose in Playboy."
PTC previously targeted MTV's "Skins" and NBC's "The Playboy Club" — both of which were eventually cancelled.
For its part, NBC has remained mum about Stern's controversial hiring. But last month, fellow "AGT" judge Howie Mandel defended Stern.
"Yes, he's edgy and honest, but he's a very bright, smart man," Mandel said. "Nobody gets to that height without knowing what they're doing. He's also compassionate, emotional, serious and has good constructive criticism. He's a good judge."
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'Pack Your Carpet Bag': KHSU Supporters Unload on New GM Over Firing of Popular Program Director
The KHSU Community Advisory Board met Wednesday evening in Gist Hall. | Photos and video by Andrew Goff.
Supporters of local public radio station KHSU, including volunteers, underwriters and staffers, showed up in force last night to a meeting of the station's Community Advisory Board, and for more than 90 minutes they took turns voicing their concern, heartbreak and indignation over the recent firing of longtime program director Katie Whiteside.
The crowd also voiced contempt for General Manager Peter Fretwell, who has been on the job for just over a year and is allegedly the man responsible for Whiteside's termination. A radio industry veteran who arrived from New Jersey, Fretwell sat beside the board members at the far end of a long table, looking like a late arrival to The Last Supper, and for much of the meeting he studiously scribbled notes on a yellow legal pad as one person after another lambasted him for ousting Whiteside.
The move has already cost the station money. Jeff DeMark, the station's underwriting coordinator, was the first speaker of the evening, and he revealed that in the two weeks since Whiteside was fired, underwriters have withdrawn $16,000 in pledged donations for the upcoming fiscal year. They all apologized for pulling their support and said they'd gladly re-up if the decision to fire Whiteside were reversed.
Jeff DeMark addresses the crowd at the KHSU Community Advisory Board meeting.
Two of the underwriters had donated more than $50,000 over the past two decades. "I don't know where we're going to replace them," DeMark said. A moment later he added, "I think if this decision isn't reversed, altered or somehow changed, the good ship KHSU is in danger of capsizing."
Praise for Whiteside was fervent and unanimous. Over the course of the evening she was described as the station's backbone, its heart and soul, its pulse, and the cog that holds things together. A couple people quipped that she's "the K in KHSU," and many described her tireless dedication to the wellbeing of the station.
Sharon Fennell, aka Sista Soul.
Sharon Fennell, better known to KHSU listeners as Sista Soul, said, "Katie has kept this station running through thick and thin, 24-7, whenever we needed her. I can't count the times I called [her] when I couldn't figure something out, and she arrived in a heartbeat — over and over again."
A volunteer named Claire said, "Katie's always been so respectful, so helpful, so open-minded. She has no ego. She just seems to care about doing the best job she can. She's just a dream to work with."
"If you can't get along with Katie Whiteside, that's on you," local artist Alan Sanborn said, triggering cheers and applause. He said the heart of the station is the community, not the corporate programming offered by National Public Radio or the string of outsiders who've been brought in as general managers. "We can run the station," he said on behalf of the community. "We want Katie back; we don't care if you're here or not."
That sentiment was expressed repeatedly and in a variety of ways over the course of the evening.
"You're obviously a corporate dude," said a man named Jay. "Your picture shows you wearing a button-down shirt, a tie and a jacket. That's not Humboldt County."
A man named John Forsythe was even more blunt. "Mr. Fretwell," he said, "you need to pack your carpet bag and go to your next thing.
Bob Doran compared Fretwell to a cancerous tumor that needed to be removed.
Susan Andrews, who's been involved with the station as a volunteer or staffer for 25 years, drove down from Del Norte County to attend the meeting. She produces the news program North Coast Update and she told Fretwell, "I consider her firing an assault on the KHSU community and on the broader community that we serve."
Fretwell again kept his head down, writing furiously.
Several volunteers said Fretwell has been making other changes behind the scenes, killing off long-running shows and restricting inter-office communication.
Russ Cole.
Russ Cole, host of KHSU show Gus Mozart's Music Box, said that shortly before Whiteside was fired she told him, excitedly, that the station would soon be moving into a whole new facility, a retrofitted space inside HSU's Theater Arts building the Feuerwerker House, but Fretwell had instructed her not to talk about it. "This is a guy who doesn't want us to talk to each other," Cole said. "It really pisses me off."
He also alleged that Fretwell had instituted a "draconian listserv policy" prohibiting volunteers from certain types of email communications.
Kim Shank, host of the children's storytelling show Redwood Earlines, said that after 33 years at the station she'd been "kicked to the curb" about two months ago, her show canceled. The same fate has befallen Paul Woodland, host of another children's program, Shank said, and while she wasn't sure who made the decision to ax those shows, Whiteside was tasked with breaking the news.
Shank turned her ire toward Fretwell. "To get rid of Katie Whiteside is worse than getting rid of children's programming," she said. "This is ridiculous."
Numerous speakers said they are considering pulling their support, or have already done so. Terry Roelofs, a retired HSU fisheries biology professor and KHSU sustaining member (meaning he has a monthly contribution automatically deducted from his credit card), pledged to double his contribution if — and only if — Whiteside is reinstated.
Local business owner Brett Shuler said, "This community's big, and they're tight. So don't mess with it."
The Community Advisory Board, as its name suggests, has no authority of its own to make or reverse policy decisions. The group serves as a conduit between the listening public and the station's staff and management, as well as university administration. But that didn't stop people from demanding accountability and some sort of recourse for their grievances.
Ted Ward, a sustaining member who formerly served on the Community Advisory Board (CAB), said that if Whiteside did anything wrong, Fretwell should have used "progressive discipline," taking incremental steps to address the issue rather than summarily firing her.
Another former member of the board read from the bylaws, which say, "Station management agrees to initiate meaningful and timely consultation with [the board] on topics of potential interest to community stakeholders." Her implication was that Fretwell had violated those bylaws, potentially invalidating Whiteside's termination.
Whiteside herself was not in attendance, but one speaker, Pam Mendelsohn, turned to a cellphone streaming the meeting and said, "Hi, Katie!" The crowd cheered in support.
No reason has been given for Whiteside's unceremonious ouster. "There are a lot of rumors, which is awful," Mendelsohn said. "There has to be transparency about why she was terminated in such a state of disgrace."
Fretwell has said he's legally prevented from discussing confidential personnel matters, but that didn't satisfy Wednesday's crowd.
"Maybe we should all write to the [California State University] chancellor," Mendelsohn suggested. Then, defiantly, she turned back to the cellphone. "Just keep on keeping on, Katie, because you're coming back."
That sparked another round of raucous cheers. There were several such moments over the course of the evening, but these outbursts of momentary joy seemed to function as a pressure release amid the prevailing mood of agitated anguish.
"Like everyone I'm bewildered and dismayed and angered by Katie's firing," said Michael Eldridge, an HSU professor, longtime volunteer and former CAB chair. "I really don't understand it, especially at this moment in the station's history. … This is an absolute disaster in every way possible."
Several speakers encouraged Fretwell to reverse his decision and reinstate Whiteside. Paul DeMark, twin brother to Jeff, said, "If you walk this back, you could do a tremendous service to this community and to yourself. Look at it and realize you made a mistake. Walk it back. People will respect you. Otherwise, I don't see how you are going to survive."
The meeting was scheduled to conclude sharply at 8 p.m., though when the time arrived the crowd remained unsatisfied. "Who was involved in the decision?" someone shouted from the back of the room.
Board Chair Tim Hinz was making his third or fourth attempt to wrap up the meeting when KHSU Office Manager and frequent on-air host Lorna Bryant spoke up.
Lorna Bryant says her piece.
"I think it's appropriate, if any of the staff members who've been silent for two-and-a-half weeks, if any of us would like to speak now I think we should be able to have the opportunity," Bryant said, and the audience cheered in support.
"I don't even know the words to say because my life has been devastated and rocked in the last two weeks by a man that I had faith and trust in for 13 months," she said, referring to Fretwell. "I stand in a room that I started my radio career in, at [HSU student radio station] KRFH. And now I feel like my radio career is coming to an end because I don't know if I'm the next at-will employee to be asked to leave, and that's devastating."
She proceeded to offer a couple of theories on possible justifications for Whiteside's firing — theories apparently rooted in KHSU staff meetings. Bryant said that at a recent staff meeting, Fretwell suggested that there had been violations of U.S. labor law — specifically the Wages and the Fair Labor Standards Act — and he mentioned that KHSU had missed some major HSU-related news stories, including the 2014 bus crash that killed 10 aspiring college students on their way to HSU's Spring Preview.
Bryant said neither of those situations should be blamed on Whiteside. Labor issues fall under the purview of the general manager, she said, while news stories should be caught by HSU's Marketing and Communications team, she argued.
It should be noted that these allegations are just two among many rumors surrounding Whiteside's departure. Reached Thursday Fretwell reiterated that he can't discuss the reasons behind the decision. "I know how it was handled, and I can't speak to rumors," he said.
As for what comes next, Fretwell said he'll reach out to HSU President Lisa Rossbacher and Vice President for University Advancement Craig Wruck and ask them to set up a meeting with the Community Advisory Board. "At that point I'm not in the room, and the administration and CAB are doing what they're commissioned to do," he said.
Meanwhile, KHSU continues to hemorrhage money, and the woman described as the heart and soul of the station has disappeared from the public eye. With the station's supporters in revolt, moneyman Jeff DeMark may be correct: The station's very existence could depend on what happens next.
KHSU General Manager Peter Fretwell Addresses the Firing of Katie Whiteside and the Ensuing Public 'Confusion and Concern'
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BREAKING: Coronavirus leads Bank of Canada to make second emergency interest rate cut
Jessy Bains
March 13, 2020, 2:20 p.m. ·2 min read
Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz attends a luncheon for Women in Capital Markets (WCM) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada March 5, 2020. REUTERS/Chris Helgren
The Bank of Canada is making an emergency cut to its benchmark overnight interest rate in the face of growing coronavirus fears.
The 50 bps cut brings the rate down to 0.75 per cent.
"This unscheduled rate decision is a proactive measure taken in light of the negative shocks to Canada's economy arising from the COVID-19 pandemic and the recent sharp drop in oil prices," said the Bank of Canada in a statement.
"It is clear that the spread of the coronavirus is having serious consequences for Canadian families, and for Canada's economy."
The Bank of Canada says it will provide an update on on April 15, but stands ready to adjust monetary policy as needed.
"As the situation continues to deteriorate, we expect the Bank to cut interest rates a to 0.25%," said Stephen Brown, senior Canada economist at Capital Economics.
"But even with this policy support, the disruption from the coronavirus outbreak is likely to lead to a recession in Canada this year."
Canada's central bank cut its overnight rate by 50bps on March 4, but says conditions have since worsened.
The Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI), Canada's regulator of financial institutions, also announced an additional $300 billion in lending capacity.
Ottawa is also offering $10 billion in credit support for businesses through Business Development Bank of Canada and Export Development Canada.
In what Finance Minister Bill Morneau described as a likely first, he joined Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz and OSFI superintendent Jeremy Rudin for the coordinated policy announcement outlining stimulus plans during the COVID-19 outbreak.
Morneau says a full economic stimulus package is coming next week and would not commit to a budget date.
When asked about the possibility of negative interest rates, Poloz says he's among central bankers that "don't like the idea that much." He says it's an option but it's unlikely it will be needed.
Jessy Bains is a senior reporter at Yahoo Finance Canada. Follow him on Twitter @jessysbains.
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Evergrande's offshore bondholders say to consider enforcement action
HONG KONG (Reuters) -An ad hoc offshore creditors group of China Evergrande said on Thursday it has had no substantive engagement with the firm over its restructuring plans despite the firm's repeated assurances. The group, represented by law firm Kirkland & Ellis and investment bank Moelis & Company, said in a statement it has no option but to seriously consider enforcement actions and it is prepared to take all necessary actions to defend its legal rights. The world's most indebted property company Evergrande has nearly $20 billion of offshore bonds deemed in cross-default last month after it missed payments.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will vote next week to propose boosting hedge fund disclosures in a bid to enhance industry oversight and investor protections, the agency's chair said on Wednesday. Gary Gensler told reporters that the SEC will vote to propose rule changes to the Form Private Fund (PF) which many hedge funds and other private funds file quarterly detailing their purchases and sales of securities.
Retail investors show signs of fatigue after last year's trading frenzy - report
"Retail investors bought a lot less than they typically would," Vanda's Ben Onatibia and Giacomo Pierantoni said about Tuesday's session. Vanda's research note comes as enthusiasm around so-called "meme stocks" also appears to be fading, a year on from the GameStop Corp frenzy when retail investors coordinated on online message boards to buy into heavily shorted stocks. Even Microsoft Corp's bumper $68.7 billion purchase of "Call of Duty" maker Activision Blizzard, the biggest gaming industry deal in history, failed to cheer up retail investors.


Minnesota rebounded from their awful MNF showing in week one to beat the Lions by 10 points last Sunday. We like the Vikings at home, and with a small 2.5-point line they won't need to win by much to cover the number. Vikings were good at home last year and face a Chargers team that gave up 175 yards on the ground against the Bengals last week.
Johnny Football started in place of the injured Josh McCown, and led the Browns to a blowout win over the Titans. But McCown is back under center this week, as Cleveland is 3.5-point chalk at home against the Raiders.
Speaking of injured quarterbacks, Dallas will be without the services of Tony Romo for a couple of months. That is in addition to the loss of stud WR Dez Bryant and possibly the loss of TE Jason Witten (listed as questionable). Dallas acquired Matt Cassel from Buffalo, but it might be too soon to see him in action. Cowboys are a two-point underdog at home against a Falcons team that is off to a fast 2-0 start with wins against the Eagles and Giants.
Long break for the Kansas City Chiefs, who are coming off a miracle loss against Denver on Thursday and have to wait until Monday night to take the field again. Even worse, they face one of the favorites to win the Super Bowl as they travel to Lambeau Field to take on the Green Bay Packers. The online sportsbooks love the Packers at home, having them as a big 7-point favorite.
The teams we are looking to back this week include the New York Giants, Minnesota, and Atlanta. We'll be back next week to break down the NFL betting lines for Week 4.


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Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh (Book Analysis)
978280801274456EBookPlurilingua PublishingThis practical and insightful reading guide offers a complete summary and analysis of Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh. It provides a thorough exploration of the novel's plot, characters and main themes, including the pitfalls of modern life and the sources of inspiration Waugh drew upon. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time. This clear and detailed 56-page reading guide is structured as follows: Biography of Evelyn Waugh Presentation of Decline and Fall Summary of Decline and Fall Character study Paul Pennyfeather Captain Grimes Mr Prendergast Solomon Philbrick Margot Beste-Chetwynde Otto Friedrich Silenus Peter Beste-Chetwynde Dr Augustus Fagan Sir Alastair Digby-Vane-Trumpington Arthur Potts Mr Sebastian Cholmondley Sir Humphrey Maltravers Sir Wilfred Lucas-Dockery Florence Fagan (Flossie) Diana Fagan (Dingy) Lord Tangent Analysis of Decline and Fall "Unsuited to modern requirements" An original masterpiece Perfect mingling of realism and fantasy About Decline and Fall Decline and Fall was Evelyn Waugh's first novel, and tells the story of Paul Pennyfeather, a hapless young man who is expelled from Oxford after a run-in with the hedonistic Bollinger Club, and is therefore unexpectedly forced to take a job as a schoolmaster in Wales. During his time there, he falls in love with Margot Beste-Chetwynde, a glamorous socialite and the mother of one of his students, which leads to a series of mishaps and mistakes that eventually see him imprisoned for inadvertently getting involved in human trafficking. About Evelyn Waugh Evelyn Waugh was a British writer who also worked as a journalist and served in the British armed forces during the Second World War. After studying at Oxford University and briefly working as a schoolmaster, he turned his hand to writing and produced a number of novels which are typically characterised by their sharp wit and incisive portrayal of the interwar period. Waugh was also an ardent traditionalist who frequently expressed his dislike of the modern world. He died on Easter Sunday in 1966.This practical and insightful reading guide offers a complete summary and analysis of Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh. It provides a thorough exploration of the novel's plot, characters and main themes, including the pitfalls of modern life and the sources of inspiration Waugh drew upon. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time. This clear and detailed 56-page reading guide is structured as follows: Biography of Evelyn Waugh Presentation of Decline and Fall Summary of Decline and Fall Character study Paul Pennyfeather Captain Grimes Mr Prendergast Solomon Philbrick Margot Beste-Chetwynde Otto Friedrich Silenus Peter Beste-Chetwynde Dr Augustus Fagan Sir Alastair Digby-Vane-Trumpington Arthur Potts Mr Sebastian Cholmondley Sir Humphrey Maltravers Sir Wilfred Lucas-Dockery Florence Fagan (Flossie) Diana Fagan (Dingy) Lord Tangent Analysis of Decline and Fall "Unsuited to modern requirements" An original masterpiece Perfect mingling of realism and fantasy About Decline and Fall Decline and Fall was Evelyn Waugh's first novel, and tells the story of Paul Pennyfeather, a hapless young man who is expelled from Oxford after a run-in with the hedonistic Bollinger Club, and is therefore unexpectedly forced to take a job as a schoolmaster in Wales. During his time there, he falls in love with Margot Beste-Chetwynde, a glamorous socialite and the mother of one of his students, which leads to a series of mishaps and mistakes that eventually see him imprisoned for inadvertently getting involved in human trafficking. About Evelyn Waugh Evelyn Waugh was a British writer who also worked as a journalist and served in the British armed forces during the Second World War. After studying at Oxford University and briefly working as a schoolmaster, he turned his hand to writing and produced a number of novels which are typically characterised by their sharp wit and incisive portrayal of the interwar period. Waugh was also an ardent traditionalist who frequently expressed his dislike of the modern world. He died on Easter Sunday in 1966.application/pdf1
This practical and insightful reading guide offers a complete summary and analysis of Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh. It provides a thorough exploration of the novel's plot, characters and main themes, including the pitfalls of modern life and the sources of inspiration Waugh drew upon. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time. This clear...
This practical and insightful reading guide offers a complete summary and analysis of Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh. It provides a thorough exploration of the novel's plot, characters and main themes, including the pitfalls of modern life and the sources of inspiration Waugh drew upon. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time.
Biography of Evelyn Waugh
Presentation of Decline and Fall
Summary of Decline and Fall
Paul Pennyfeather
Captain Grimes
Mr Prendergast
Solomon Philbrick
Margot Beste-Chetwynde
Otto Friedrich Silenus
Peter Beste-Chetwynde
Dr Augustus Fagan
Sir Alastair Digby-Vane-Trumpington
Arthur Potts
Mr Sebastian Cholmondley
Sir Humphrey Maltravers
Sir Wilfred Lucas-Dockery
Florence Fagan (Flossie)
Diana Fagan (Dingy)
Lord Tangent
Analysis of Decline and Fall
"Unsuited to modern requirements"
An original masterpiece
Perfect mingling of realism and fantasy
About Decline and Fall
Decline and Fall was Evelyn Waugh's first novel, and tells the story of Paul Pennyfeather, a hapless young man who is expelled from Oxford after a run-in with the hedonistic Bollinger Club, and is therefore unexpectedly forced to take a job as a schoolmaster in Wales. During his time there, he falls in love with Margot Beste-Chetwynde, a glamorous socialite and the mother of one of his students, which leads to a series of mishaps and mistakes that eventually see him imprisoned for inadvertently getting involved in human trafficking.
About Evelyn Waugh
Evelyn Waugh was a British writer who also worked as a journalist and served in the British armed forces during the Second World War. After studying at Oxford University and briefly working as a schoolmaster, he turned his hand to writing and produced a number of novels which are typically characterised by their sharp wit and incisive portrayal of the interwar period. Waugh was also an ardent traditionalist who frequently expressed his dislike of the modern world. He died on Easter Sunday in 1966.
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MH16 - Men's health contextual unit
Home Education RTOs provide invaluable learning environments Curriculum for Australian General Practice – Under Review RACGP 2016 Curriculum Contextual units Populations MH16 - Men's health contextual unit
In Australia, there remains a disparity between the health of men and women. Australian men are less healthy than Australian women, dying nearly five years earlier than their female counterparts,1 especially in the 25–65 years age group – the main working period of men's lives.1,2 In 2014, the median age at death was 78.5 years for non- Indigenous men compared to 84.8 years for non-Indigenous women, and this shorter life expectancy occurred when measured across every age group.2 The health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men is worse than any other subgroup in Australia. The reasons for this excess morbidity and mortality are complex and multifactorial (refer to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health core skills unit [AH16] for more detail). Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men born between 2010 and 2012 can expect to live to 69.1 years compared to 79.9 for their non-Indigenous counterparts.1
Deaths in working-age males are more common than in working-age females. At age 25 years, male deaths are more than twice as common as female deaths, falling to 1.5 times as common at age 50 years, before beginning to rise again to age 64 years. Males account for 62% of premature deaths.3 Among younger working-age males (aged 25–44 years), death is more likely to result from external causes than from other causes.3 In 2011–13, the leading single cause of death for males aged 25–44 years was suicide (21.5% of total deaths), followed by accidental poisoning (11.6) and land transport accidents (9.7%).3 Although called 'working-age people', relatively few deaths are formally work-related. Over 90% of work-related traumatic injury fatalities are in males, with 40% of these deaths occurring in men aged 45 years or over.4
Men carry a significantly larger burden of illness compared to women,5 and unhealthy behaviours are more common in men. As an example, in 2013–14, 18.3% of men reported daily smoking compared to 14.1% in females, and 16.3% of males were found to be more likely to drink daily compared to 11.5% of females.2 Similarly, 17% of males have reported to have used illicit drugs compared to 12.3% of females.6 In 2013, 86.9% of cases of newly diagnosed HIV infection in Australia were in men.7
General practitioners (GPs) are less likely to see males in patient encounters than females. In 2013–14, the Bettering the Evaluation and Care of Health (BEACH) program reported that of 94,952 patient encounters surveyed, 43.1% of patient encounters were with males compared to 56.9% with females.8 This was reflected across all age groups except for children aged less than 15 years, and was greatest among younger adults (15–24 years and 25–44 years).8 This disparity in access to healthcare, with a low rate of presentation of men across the decades of middle and older age, has been linked to men's shorter life expectancy.
General practitioners are well situated to address the specific healthcare needs of men. Good general practice men's healthcare not only includes early identification and management of disease, but involves recognising that major improvements to men's health will be achieved by challenging the way masculinity is defined in Australian culture.
This recognises the importance of how boys develop socially, explores ways of taking GPs and health teams to the men who under-attend general practice, and addresses the marketing of general practice services to men. Building these links between general practices and the community has the potential to enhance the relationships between men and their GPs and improve health outcomes.
Gender in healthcare
Women and men experience health differently. Biological sex differences, such as reproductive health and sexuality, are responsible for health issues traditionally regarded as 'men's health' or 'women's health'. Gender refers to the different social and cultural roles, expectations and constraints placed on men and women because of their sex. When analysing the experiences and impacts of health on men and women, differences relating to gender, in addition to biological sex, need to be considered.
Gender can influence women's and men's health as a result of having different:
exposure to risk factors
healthy literacy with varied access to, and understanding of, information about disease management, prevention and control
subjective experience of illness and its social significance
attitudes toward the maintenance of one's own health and that of family members
patterns of service use
perceptions of quality of care.
Male socialisation and masculinity, social connectedness and work–life balance significantly impact on health. Masculinity has been identified as a key factor leading both men and boys to risk-taking and self-harming behaviours. What may be described as stereotypically male emotional responses may deny access to the healing effects of emotional release and act as obstacles to valuing and prioritising their own physical, emotional and mental health. Knowledge of the impact of masculinity on health and healthcare is critical to the provision of effective general practice care.
Masculine identity and behaviour vary over the course of a man's life and also vary considerably according to cultural and ethnic background, sexual and gender identity, and socioeconomic and geographical locations. An understanding of masculine behaviours and notions of maleness should take into account the wide range of masculinities that exist within multicultural Australia. For example: men living in rural and isolated areas, non–
Australian-born men, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men, older men, gay, transsexual and intersex men, men with a disability, men affected by mental illness, war and armed service veterans, and men with other special needs such as divorced and separated men who may, or may not, be primary carers.
Men are more likely to be both the perpetrators of violence and its victims. Violence is a significant health issue for Australian men for many reasons including the effect on victims, the health impacts of imprisonment on perpetrators and the deleterious effects on relationships.
Males are responsible for the vast majority of cases of domestic violence and GPs have a responsibility to deal with its effects. Exposure of boys to violence during their formative years contributes to a range of issues including homelessness, drug use, depression, relationship difficulties and perpetuation of the cycle of violence later in their lives.
Male health promotion in Australia: The National Male Health Policy
The Australian National Men's Health Policy9 was released in 2010. This policy encourages all males to take individual action to improve their own health as well as focusing on appropriate government action, cross-sectorial activity, and initiatives that can be undertaken by the health system and community to improve the health of Australian males.
To achieve this, the policy identified six priority outcomes for improving the health of Australian males:
optimising health outcomes
working towards health equity between population groups of males
working towards health equity between males at different life stages
focusing on preventive health for males
building a strong evidence base on male health
access to healthcare for males.
Quality general practice care provision is central to many of these activities, and familiarity with the policy helps to guide men's healthcare in primary care. In addition to their work in a clinic, GPs are typically well placed to become involved in community health education and promotion activities where men congregate, in order that they might provide services, heighten the awareness of men's health issues and act as advocates for male patients.
Useful men's health resources and tools
Andrology Australia
Men's health Australia
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Australia's health 2014. Australia's health series no. 14. Cat no. AUS 178. Canberra: AIHW, 25 June 2014. [Accessed 26 November 2015].
Australian Bureau of Statistics. Deaths, Australia, 2014. Cat. no. 3302.0. Canberra: ABS, 12 November 2015. [Accessed 26 November 2015].
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Premature mortality in Australia 1997–2012. Canberra: AIHW, October 2015. [Accessed 26 November 2015].
Safe Work Australia. Work-related traumatic injury fatalities, Australia 2014. Canberra: Safe Work Australia, 2014. [Accessed 4 January 2016].
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Australian burden of disease study: Fatal burden of disease 2010. Australian burden of disease study series no. 1. Cat. no. BOD 1. Canberra: AIHW, 2015. [Accessed 26 November 2015].
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Australia's health 2014. Chapter 5: Health behaviours and other risks to health. Australia's health series no. 14. Cat. no. AUS 178. Canberra: AIHW, 2014; p. 159–91. [Accessed 26 November 2015].
Kirby Institute. HIV in Australia: Annual surveillance report 2014 supplement. Sydney: Kirby Institute and UNSW, 2014. [Accessed 26 November 2015].
Britt H, Miller GC, Henderson J, et al. General practice activity in Australia 2013–14. General practice series no. 36. Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2014. [Accessed 26 November 2015].
Department of Health and Ageing. National Male Health Policy: Building on the strengths of Australian males. Canberra: DoHA, 2010. [Accessed 5 August 2010].
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AH16 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Unit
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About 17.5 percent of all patients in China are treated with traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine said Monday.
As of September 2017, 20.4 million patients had been discharged from TCM hospitals, accounting for 15 percent of all discharged patients in the country, the administration said.
Currently, 67 percent of the town-level and community health centers have TCM units, totaling over 30,000. By September 2017, there were 45,800 TCM clinics across China.
Wang Guoqiang, head of the administration, said TCM services are still unbalanced and relatively weak at the grassroots level.
"The needs of the public for TCM cannot yet be met," Wang said.
The administration plans to support medical institutions with specialties on TCM and build at least one public TCM hospital in each county.


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As we approach the beautiful weather of Spring and Summer, Volvo Trucks NA would like to get our employees moving more! This event will be held outside and include interactive activities like Corn Hole and Giant Jenga with special promotion of vendors in the triad that have a fitness component or support physical fitness or movement in some way. Our employees drive in from communities all around the Triad so we'll be selecting multiple vendors under any given category and we will be most interested in those with interactive offerings and education at their table.
From gyms to yoga studios, cycling to martial arts, apparel providers to injury support, we invite you to submit your request to participate in our April event to ensure our team is knowledgeable of resources they can take advantage of to help them move more!


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Why Georgian Greens Fail to Succeed on Russian Market?
After the 2006 embargo, negotiations on exports of vegetable products to the Russian Federation resumed in 2013.
At the end of May 2014 the Russian market was reopened for Georgia fruits and vegetables. At the first stage, citrus exports was resumed, later fruits, garden plants, including greens, were also admitted to the Russian market. In that period greens production companies were going to penetrate the Russian market through other mechanisms, even more so, the Russian market is famous for its instability.
Several months have passed since then. What has changed? Have Georgian entrepreneurs returned the Russian market and what are perspectives of Georgian greens exports perspectives?
The company has passive period in summer season and exports will be resumed in October, Zurab Janelidze, head of Herbia company, noted. Currently, only Bulgaria is recorded in the list of exports countries. This year huge volume of greens was exported to Bulgaria. As to the Russian market, in parallel regime negotiations are underway with other countries, including Russia and in case of agreement, Georgian greens will be exported. Negotiations with Russia is being conducted for a long period, but the company could not export greens so far. However, at this stage specific proposals were submitted by specific partners and Herbia company will launch greens exports to Russia in autumn, Janelidze noted.
Besides greens, the company also produces several varieties of vegetables and is able to add new varieties in the event of consumer demand. Herbia has managed to succeed on the market thanks to high-quality products, Janelidze noted.
Since summer 2015 the company launched production of cucumber, tomato and bell peppers. In 2015 the company constructed a packing enterprise in Tskaltubo, the Imereti Region, through the Cheap Credit project and employed about 20 persons in addition. The selling price of Herbia products at markets starts from 0.40 GEL.
Georgian Greens company could not enter the Russian market either. The company head Jumber Beltadze said that there are many difficulties with greens exports to the mentioned country. The Russian market is huge, but Georgian companies have already set control over shops, districts and new ones are not let enter the market. «All places are controlled. You cannot enter there and place greens on the counter. You have to give bribe to everybody. If we cannot make profits, the business and exports becomes useless. Therefore, this is useless and I do not try to launch exports to Russia», Beltadze said.
His company carries out growing exports to Ukraine, Moldova and Poland. In the future, exports volume will increase in these directions.
Goderdzi Shavgulidze, head of Qvitiri Greens, noted that the situation is heavy in the sector, because Georgian businessmen failed to find a niche on the Russian market and they bear losses. Iranian greens are far cheaper compared to Georgian greens and therefore, Georgian products face problems with sales. Similar situation is on other markets too. Therefore, the company has to sell products only on the domestic market, Shavgulidze noted.
Qvitiri cooperative was founded in Kutaisi at the end of 2014. The cooperative employed 5 persons. After foundation of the cooperative, they wrote a grant project and won the ENPARD program and received 80 000 financial support component. The company purchased refrigerator aggregates, generators and other equipment through the mentioned financial component. Investments made by the farmers totaled 55 000 GEL.
"The European Union program has bought all equipment that we needed in that period. If the business goes well, our cooperative will be expanded and we will grow melons and bell peppers", Goderdzi Shavgulidze noted.
Greens business is profitable, in general, but in a number of cases problems arise with sales, Nino Zambakhidze, head of the association of farmers of Georgia, said.
"In winter season restaurants have shortage of Georgian greens, including of mint and tarragon, while these products are not produced. There are another party assuring that they have problems with sales. Therefore, I think there is a problem with communication. There is no information about which greenhouse produces this or that greens in this or that region.
Currently, 13 000 greenhouses have been identified, but activities of farmers are not identified. Lack of information is one of the main challenges. Frequently hotels and restaurants call to us and seek for greens suppliers", Zambakhidze said.
As to exports, Georgian greens are exported to Europe without problems, Zambakhidze said, but added that she has certain information on problems before exporters. As to Russia, no legal body has expressed pretenses on problems in the direction of the Russian Federation.
-Is Georgian greens business connected with the criminal bosses?
Over the years mass media and social media have been actively discussing that Georgian criminal bosses control Georgian greens business in the Russian Federation.
It was said that in 2011 on the Moscow Pokrovski greens market the so-called Black Greengrocers appeared, that is, thieves-in-law (including Tariel Potskhveria), who decided to make money by appropriating the greens business.
In that period the Pokrovski greens market with annual 9 billion USD turnover was a serious stake for not only the Georgian criminal world. Even Chechen field commanders (including Shamil Basayev) and Moscow Militia high-ranking officials were fighting to control it. Up to 2012 Azerbaijani thieves-in-law used to control the greens market.
Since 2012 the Kutaisi clan of the criminal world (Tarieli Oniani) took efforts to control the market and the market was assigned to Merab Jangveladze, i.e. Sokhymski. Soon the market was closed and Jangveladze was arrested in Europe. After the market moved to a new place, the war between the Black Greengrocers resumed. In 2013 twenty ordered murders were committed in Moscow. More than 100 persons were killed as a result of bloody clashes.
The Caucasus Business Week (CBW) has tried to clarify whether there is real connection between Georgian greens and criminal bosses. No supplier has made comments on the issue. «This is the issue which is not discussed», they said.


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Hand grenade attack in Karak
PESHAWAR: (APP) At least one person was killed and three women and a child were injured in a hand grenade attack at a house in Karak, an official of the police control Karak said on Saturday.
According to police, some unidentified persons attacked a house with hand grenade in Narai Panwas area of Karak.
Soon after the attack of the grenade, it went off with a big bang as a result one person was killed and four others including three women and a child of a same family of Faqir Nawaz were injured.
The dead and injured were shifted to district headquarters hospital.
Two of the injured were stated to be in critical condition.
The deceased was identified as Badshameer s/o Fariq Nawaz.
The injured comprising Atlas, wife of Fariq Nawaz, Madia, Mikran, daughters of Fariq Nawaz and his child Zohaib.
The police have registered a case against the attackers and started investigation.


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- FOVISEE awarded a "Best Practice Certificate". 2010. Selected as a Best Practice by the International Jury for the Dubai International Award for Best Practices.
- "International Solar Thermal Energy Seminar". 2011. FOVISEE created a campaign to promote solar energy in Argentina in both the public and private spheres. A highlight from the campaign was the international workshop where Engineer Carlos Felipe da Cunha Faria shared experiences in Brazil surrounding the integration of sustainability criteria in social housing, including the use of Solar Thermal Energy.
- "'Energy, Housing, and Sustainability' FOVISEE's 4th International Conference. August 2011. Institutions such as the American Planning Association, the Brazilian Ministry of Cultural Infrastructure, the National Industrial Technology Institute (INTI), the Uruguayan Renewable Energies Division, among many others, were represented and presented at the international conference.
- "First Energy Efficient Neighbourhood in Argentina": 33 more sustainable homes. 2011. After the installation of 23 additional solar panels in La Perla, Buenos Aires (part of Project 100), FOVISEE and partners participated in the inauguration of new public housing units in Moreno. FOVISEE team members accompanied families with solar panels to their new homes, and participated in the press conference.


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though her nose is as long as yours.
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Steve Yager
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Donald Trump points to the sky, evidently referring to the movement of the American economy as the US GDP in the second quarter is up to 4.2%, higher than the analysts' predictions of + 4.0%.
What are the reasons for such an uptick in the American economy?
According to Antonio Cesarano, Chief Global Strategist of Intermonte SIM, the increase in net exports and therefore increase in exports is due to prepaid duties. This could also occur in the current quarter with the additional tariffs of 25% on $200 billion imposed by the US on products imported from China.
Meanwhile the S & P500 continues moving upwards, ever closer to the threshold 3000 which in my opinion will be reached without many problems.
Article prepared by Riccardo Zago.