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Home News Madrid struggles to win hearts in Catalonia PR battle
Madrid struggles to win hearts in Catalonia PR battle
"Authoritarian repression," "a violation of our basic rights," "the fall of democracy."
While these sound like accusations levelled at a dictatorship, they are in fact words used by Catalonia's separatist leader Carles Puigdemont to describe the Spanish government's crackdown on a banned independence referendum he wants to hold anyway on October 1.
These and other declarations have grabbed the headlines as Catalan separatist leaders multiply interviews and statements in an attempt to gain international support for a break with Spain.
Worried that it is being portrayed as the bad guy, Madrid went on the offensive just weeks before the planned vote, with foreign reporters invited to briefings with government figures to get their version of the story across.
On Tuesday, Enric Millo, the central government's representative in Catalonia, apologised to journalists "because it would have made sense to meet earlier," before speaking about the situation for more than two hours, refuting claims his government had never tried to negotiate or it was waging "repression."
– 'Flat' narrative –
Polls show that Catalonia is deeply divided over independence, but an overwhelming majority would like to vote in a legal referendum to settle the matter.
The Constitutional Court has ruled it illegal though, hence why Madrid is trying to stop it.
Key members of the team organising the referendum were detained last week and then set free pending further investigation.
This sparked angry protests in Barcelona, other Catalan cities and even Madrid that were relayed on televisions around the world.
Websites promoting the referendum have been shut down.
And thousands of police have been deployed to help guard polling stations and stop people from accessing them on Sunday.
Madrid points out that the decisions have all been taken by judges and prosecutors. .
But still it has been accused of taking "political prisoners" — as declared by Pablo Iglesias, leader of the far-left Podemos party — online censorship and other rights violations.
The problem, says political analyst Ana Salazar, is that Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy and his ministers have focused solely on the illegal nature of the vote, leaving their narrative rather "flat."
In the meantime, the Catalan executive's tale includes all the elements of a good story — "victimisation" and a sense they are fighting a "noble cause," says Salazar.
The Catalan government has not gained the support it needs from foreign leaders, at least publicly.
And the only way it will succeed is by trying to convince them "that the Spanish state is oppressing" the northeastern region, says Salazar.
– 'Free Tweety' –
And it's not only on the foreign front that Madrid is struggling to gain support.
In Catalonia too, resentment is growing.
"They haven't tried to convince people that they want us to remain with the rest of the country," complains Eva de las Heras, a 51-year-old Catalan consultant.
She says she was not pro-independence until last week, when the arrests angered her so much she changed her mind.
"People are hurt, this is about pride, about feelings," she said.
Madrid has also made clumsy moves.
The decision for instance to charter a ferry decked with a giant drawing of Looney Tunes characters including Tweetie Pie to house police sent to Catalonia was met with derision.
The hashtag #FreeTweety became a worldwide trending topic on Twitter, and the little yellow bird an emblem for Catalan separatists' fight to vote.
Analysts say the government has not poured effort into convincing Catalans as it doesn't want to give an illegal referendum legitimacy by launching a campaign.
As such, the situation is markedly different from last year's Brexit vote, which London had agreed to.
But Caroline Gray, an expert on nationalist movements in Spain at Aston University, says both those in Britain's "Remain" camp and Madrid were over-confident.
"The Remain campaign thought they would win the referendum," she says, and they lost, with Britain choosing to leave the EU.
"Rajoy seems to have the attitude that if I don't respond to all this, then eventually it will blow over. 'If I keep saying no, support will die down for independence'."
But it hasn't, and fears are growing that the Catalan society will be left damaged.
"Public relations can't heal a divided region and nor, alas, can Madrid's fumbling response to the challenge," The Observer summed up Sunday in an editorial.
"It is time for both sides to pause and ponder the damage. It's time to pull back."
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Jax Daily Record Monday, Nov. 16, 202005:10 AM EST
Publix-anchored East San Marco could break ground by January
Construction might be completed by summer 2022.
by: Katie Garwood Staff Writer
Groundbreaking at the East San Marco retail center could happen as soon as January, Regency Centers Corp. Vice President and Jacksonville Market Officer Patrick McKinley said Nov. 11.
When a contractor is selected, McKinley said a groundbreaking would be set for that month followed by site work.
He said Regency Centers should receive contractor bids this week.
McKinley spoke at the San Marco Merchants Association quarterly meeting via Zoom.
"There's a light at the end of the tunnel here," McKinley said. "I know everyone has been hearing this for a long time."
East San Marco will be anchored by a 39,000-square-foot Publix that will be built above a parking lot.
The 2.35-acre site is at southeast Hendricks Avenue and Atlantic Boulevard in San Marco.
McKinley said construction on the 39,000-square-foot Publix should be completed by summer 2022. Publix could open 30 to 60 days later after it outfits and prepares the space.
The six retail spaces adjacent to Publix would be ready for tenants to take over soon after. Construction in those spaces could take three to five months, he said.
"There's no guaranteed time frame, but that is the general time frame," McKinley said.
Now that there is a clearer timeline, McKinley said Regency Centers can start to market the spaces to tenants. He said it is in discussions with a gym operator to lease one of the retail spaces.
Jacksonville-based Regency applied for four permits Oct. 16 for Publix, a Publix Liquors store and two retail buildings at construction costs totaling $9.7 million.
That cost will be higher when other work, including interior build-out, is approved.
The site plan for the Publix and shops at East San Marco.
Permit applications show:
■ A two-story building totaling 76,588 square feet, with the 39,000-square-foot Publix on the top floor and parking on the bottom at a cost of $7 million.
■ A two-story retail building totaling 8,665 square feet at $1.25 million.
■ A one-story retail building of 9,951 square feet at $1.2 million.
■ A 1,436-square-foot Publix Liquors store at $250,000.
Fisher and Associates LLC of Clearwater is the architect. Codes-ABC Inc. is providing code-compliance review for the East San Marco project.
The project has been in the works since 2002. It was delayed by several factors, including the recession and a development partner that pulled out of the deal in 2017.
After almost two decades of stops and starts, Regency Centers disclosed the latest plans a year ago.
City permits FIS parking garage
PNC Financial agrees to buy BBVA in U.S.

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A: ng-show items flash before loading if they aren't required.
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A: Use ng-if to avoid css-animations in this case. ng-show and ng-hide are triggering class manipulations to interact with your css-animations. If you still want css animations after the page has been loaded, you need to bind a second $scope for "show/hide" for "after page load handling".

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Jonathan Commissions Projects In Ibadan
3rd June, 2010
President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria this morning commissioned two road projects at Odo Ona Elere Phase I and Molete to Queen Cinema road both in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. He was on a one-day visit to the state.
Jonathan, who arrived Ibadan at about 10.14 a.m., was received by four governors, Olagunsoye Oyinlola of Osun, Segun Oni of Ekiti, Gbenga Daniel of Ogun and the host, Adebayo Alao-Akala.
Those who arrived with Jonathan were former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, traditional rulers Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuade, Soun of Ogbomoso, Oba Oyewunmi Ajagungbade, Alaafin Of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi and Onile Igbon of Onile Igbon, Oba Osunbade Adegboyega Samuel, among others.
Commercial activities in the ancient city were temporarily halted as a huge crowd gathered to welcome the president.
Edo train station attack: Two traditional rulers, five others arrested
Jonathan, Oyedepo, Adeboye, Aisha make 'Most Reputable Africans' list
JUST IN: Tribunal upholds Oyebanji's election as Ekiti governor
Students from public schools lined up major streets in the city to welcome the august visitor.
President Jonathan also visited the Molete Baptist Church in Ibadan for the 60th birthday thanksgiving of Governor Akala.
—Gbenro Adesina/Ibadan
Tags: Adegboyega Goodluck Jonathan Onile oyo state Segun Oni Traditional Rulers


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Bridgewater pushed out, paid off woman for consensual relationship
by Kenneth Katz | Nov 10, 2017 | Sexual Harassment
Can a purportedly consensual sexual relationship at work be considered sexual misconduct? Absolutely. When a sexual relationship emerges between a boss and a subordinate, the law might not consider it consensual even if the parties say that it is.
There are a host of potential problems. A supervisor who gets in the habit of dating subordinates could be accused of sexual harassment. The power dynamic between the participants may make it problematic for the subordinate to say no — to sex or to workplace requests. A breakup could lead to such animosity that the employee feels the work environment has become hostile.
Any of these could be what happened to an unnamed woman who was pushed out of the hedge fund Bridgewater Associates three years ago. According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, the woman found herself in a so-called consensual relationship with then co-CEO Greg Jensen. Reports say the woman was given a settlement of more than $1 million.
Shortly after that incident, another woman apparently came forward with a complaint that Jensen had groped her buttocks. That woman, also unidentified, has since left the hedge fund giant, but Reuters reports that she was not pushed out in retaliation.
However, the WSJ noted that Bridgewater founder Ray Dalio was involved in the mediation of both matters. It is unclear whether the second woman received a settlement.
Jensen, now the hedge fund's co-chief investment officer, has called the WSJ's description of his behavior "inaccurate and salacious." In a statement, Bridgewater described the story as "an uninformed misrepresentation of what actually occurred."
Can a sexual harassment claim succeed after a consensual relationship?
Yes. It's difficult to prove that a relationship was consensual, especially when it involved a substantial power differential.
The subordinate may honestly have felt that continued employment or advancement was predicated on the relationship. This is not uncommon and is known as quid pro quo ("something for something") sexual harassment.
When a certain supervisor routinely dates subordinates, co-workers may perceive a quid pro quo. That could lead to a hostile work environment claim.
Even if the relationship was consensual at first, not everyone handles breakups professionally. A breakup might lead one participant to harass or even stalk the other, which could potentially lead to a lawsuit.
When human emotions are involved, the objective truth is often difficult to ascertain — and emotions can run high in workplace dating. If you are involved in a romantic relationship with a supervisor or anyone at a higher level, you have rights. Talk to a lawyer; you can take steps to reduce the risk that you will be pushed out of your job if things end badly.


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Gui D. Maia, Ph.D.
Data Scientist, Ameren
Data Science Best Practices
E-mail me: gdnmaia@gmail.com
Data Scientist (September 2018 – Present)
Ameren Corporation -Ameren Innovation Center, UIUC Research Park, Champaign, Illinois, USA
Data Science Lead (August 2015 – September 2018)
Anheuser-Busch INBEV, UIUC Research Park, Champaign, Illinois, USA
Head a team of data scientists to provide advanced analytics for multiple business divisions including Marketing, IT, Sales, Procurement, Finance, Logistics, and Supply.
Conduct multidisciplinary projects including social media segmentation, product market ROI, and revenue management models.
Facilitate hiring and recruitment of PhD and MS interns from multidisciplinary STEM programs.
Validate data science models, communicate findings, and develop cadence and engagement with management and stakeholders.
Developed a project portfolio with a value of > $500 million
Established collaborations with UIUC research faculty in engineering, business, agriculture, economics, and computer science.
Designed a global workshop to educate management and stakeholders in advanced analytics, including data science terminologies and trends, case studies, and best practices design to improve ABI in-house data science project cycle.
Postdoctoral Researcher, Biological Engineering (2011 to 2015)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign – Urbana, Illinois, USA
Modeled food supply chains to minimize infrastructure costs and increase food security in developing countries (ADM Institute for the Prevention of Postharvest Losses).
Published 10 scientific papers in refereed journals.
Received a Superior Paper Award in 2013 for developing a framework to measure the performance of biotechnologies treating air pollutants.
Identified $6-7 billion of potential supply chain savings using alternative grain storage systems.
Initiated collaborations between Brazil and U.S. to access agribusiness supply chain big data
Ph.D. Biosystems Engineering University of Kentucky: "Ammonia biofiltration and nitrous oxide generation as affected by media moisture content." 2010
M.S. Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Sao Paulo (USP), Brazil. "Analysis of Kinetics Parameters in the Phenomenon of Reoxygenation and Deoxygenation of Water/" 2003
B.S. Civil Engineering Araraquara School of Civil Engineering, Brazil 2000
B.S. Political Science Sao Paulo State University (UNESP), Brazil 2003
Scopus (requires institutional log in) (most accurate source)
Research Gate (publication download)
Ouyang, Y., Nourbakhsh, S. M., Bai, Y., Maia, G. D. N., Rodriguez, L. F. (2015). Grain supply chain network design and logistics planning for reducing post-harvest loss. Biosystems Engineering. DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2016.08.011
Maia, G. D. N., Ramirez, B. C., Green, A. R., Rodriguez, L. F., Shike, D. W. & Segers, J. R. (2015). A novel ruminant emission measurement system: commissioning (Part II). Trans. ASABE. 58(6): 1801-1815. DOI: 10.13031/trans.58.10753
Maia, G. D. N., Ramirez, B. C., Green A. R., Rodriguez, L. F., Shike, D. W. & Segers, J. R. (2015). A novel ruminant emission measurement system: design evaluation and description (Part I). Trans. ASABE. Vol. 58(3): 749-762. DOI 10.13031/trans.58.10752
Pereira, D. F., Miyamoto, B. C. B., Maia, G. D. N., Tatiana Sales, G., Magalhães, M. M., & Gates, R. S. (2013). Machine vision to identify broiler breeder behavior. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 99(0), 194–199. doi:10.1016/j.compag.2013.09.012
Segers, J. R., Felix, T. L. Green, A. R. , Maia, G. N. D. , Ramirez, B. C. , and Shike, D. W. (2015). Effect of dietary fat concentration from condensed corn distillers solubles, during the growing phase, on beef cattle performance, carcass traits, digestibility, and ruminal metabolism. Journal of Animal Science. 93(8):3990-4001. DOI: 10.2527/jas.2015-8917.
Ramirez, B. C., Maia, G. D. N., Green, A. R., Rodriguez, L. F., Shike, D. W. & Segers, J. R. (2014). Design and validation of a precision orifice meter for sub-550 liter per minute flow rate applications. Trans. ASABE. 57(6):1865-1872. DOI: 10.13031/trans.57.10754
Maia, G. D. N., G. T. Sales, G. B. Day V, R. S. Gates, and J. L. Taraba. 2012. Characterizing physical properties of gas-phase biofilter media. Trans. ASABE 55(5): 1939-1950. Superior Paper Award in 2013.
Maia, G. D. N., Day V, G. B., Gates, R. S., Taraba, J., & Coyne, M. S. (2012). Moisture effects on greenhouse gases generation in nitrifying gas-phase compost biofilters. Water Research 46 (9), 3023-3031. doi:10.1016/j.watres.2012.03.007
Maia G. D. N., Day V, G. B., Gates, R. S., & Taraba, J. (2011). Ammonia biofiltration and nitrous oxide generation during the start-up of gas-phase compost biofilters. Atmospheric Environment. Vol.46 (12):659-664. doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2011.10.019
Maia, G. D. N., G. B. Day V, R. S. Gates, and J. L. Taraba. 2011. Biofilter media characterization using water sorption isotherms. Trans. ASABE 54(4): 1445-1451
Burns, R., Xin, H., Gates, R. S., Li, H., Hoff, S., Moody, L., Overhults, and Earnest, J. 2007. Tyson Broiler Ammonia Emission Monitoring Project: Final Report Environmental Protection Agency. Available at: http://www.environmentalintegrity.org/pdf/publications/Bush_admin_tyson_ammonia.pdf
INVITED TALKS & WORKSHOPS
DowDupont Agrochemicals: "Data Science and Advanced Analytics in AgroSciences", Indiana, Indianapolis, February 2018. Audience: Global Data Science Team
Anheuser-Busch InBev Headquarter: "Advanced Analytics Training for ABI Leaders", Belgium, Leuven, October 2017. Audience: ABINBEV Upper Management
University of Illinois Business School: "Managing data science teams: Identifying and avoiding common pitfalls in data analytics", Illinois, Champaign, September 2017. Audience: MBA Students
USDA Fayetteville: "The Future of Biofiltration: Moisture Control and Hybrid Systems". Presentation for the USDA-ARS at the Poultry Production and Product Safety Research Unit, Arkansas, Fayetteville, April 29, 2013. Audience: USDA Poultry Researchers
University of Illinois Extensions Service: "How Much Moisture Do You Need and How Often? Ask Your Biofilter Media." Presentation in the Field day for ventilation management and air quality for livestock systems, Savoy, Illinois, October 2012. Audience: Illinois Producers
Maia, G. D. N., A. R. Green, B. C. Ramirez, Y. Sun, J. Segers, D. W. Shike, L. F. Rodriguez, R. Gates. 2013. Overview and Application of a Metabolic Chamber for Quantification of Greenhouse Gas Generation from Enteric Fermentation. Paper No. 131619682, ASABE Intl Mtg. July 24th, Kansas City, MO. St. Joseph MI: ASABE.
Ramirez, B. C., G. D. N. Maia,A. R. Green, D. W. Shike, R. Gates, L. F. Rodriguez. 2013. Design and Validation of a Calibrated Orifice Meter for Sub-500 liters per minute Flow Rate Applications. Paper No. 131618475. ASABE Intl Mtg. July 24th, Kansas City, MO. St. Joseph MI: ASABE.
Sun, Y., G. D. N. Maia, A. R. Green, B. C. Ramirez, L. F. Rodriguez, D. W. Shike, R. Gates. 2013. Sampling Frequency Selection and Diurnal Patterns of Methane Production from Beef Cattle. Paper No. 131619651. ASABE Intl Mtg. July 24th, Kansas City, MO. St. Joseph MI: ASABE.
Liu, L. F. Rodriguez, G. D. N. Maia, A. R. Green, D. W. Shike, B. Lehman, B. C. Ramirez, J. Segers. 2013. Cattle Movement Characterization and Pattern Identification for Modeling Cattle Movement. Paper No. 131620743. ASABE Intl Mtg. July 23rd, Kansas City, MO. St. Joseph MI: ASABE.
Maia, G. D. N., G. T. Sales, G. B. Day V, R. S. Gates, and J. L. Taraba. 2012. Physical Characterization of Gas-phase Biofilter Media. ASABE Intl Mtg. July 29th, Dallas, TX. St. Joseph MI: ASABE.
Norris, H., L. Rodriguez, T. Liu, A. Green, D. Shike, J. Segers, G. D. N. Maia, B. Ramirez, 2012. Impact of Livestock on Soil Characteristics in a Crop-Livestock Agroecosystem.
Liu., L. Rodriguez, A. Green, D. Shike, J. Segers, G. D. N. Maia, B. Ramirez, H. Norris .2012. Assessment of cattle impacts on soil characteristics in integrated crop-livestock systems. Paper No. 121338321. ASABE Intl Mtg. June 20th, Dallas, TX. St. Joseph MI: ASABE.
Maia G. D. N., R. S. Gates, A. R. Green, L. F. Rodriguez, D. W. Shike, G. B. Day V., J. Taraba. 2011. Viability of the infra-red photoacoustic system on the measurement of greenhouse gases and ammonia. Oral presentation number No. 1111821. ASABE Intl Mtg. August 10. Louisville, KY. St. Joseph MI: ASABE.
Maia G. D. N. Effects of Media Moisture on Ammonia Abatement and Nitrous Oxide and Methane. Workshop Proceedings: Carbon Markets – Expanding Opportunities/Valuing Co-benefits. Workshop co-hosted by the Soil & Water Conservation Society and the National Wildlife Federation. On July 21, 2010, St. Louis, Missouri.
Dutra de Melo, L., G. B. Day V, J. L. Taraba, and G. D. N. Maia. 2010. Assessment of a Moisture Application System for Compost Biofilters. Paper No. 1009176. ASABE Intl Mtg. June 20th. Pittsburgh, PA. St. Joseph MI: ASABE.
Maia, G. D. N., G. B. Day V, R. S. Gates, J. L. Taraba, G. T. Sales, N. Lovanh. 2009. Ammonia removal and nitrous oxide production in gas-phase compost biofilters. Submitted for presentation at the Simpósio Internacional sobre Gerenciamento de Residuos de Animais – SIGERA. March 12th & 13th, 2009. Florianópolis – SC, Brazil
Sales, G. T.,G. B. Day V, R. S. Gates, N. Lovanh, G. Del Nero Maia, and A. Singh. 2009. Assessment of Biofilter Media Particle Sizes for Removing Ammonia. Submitted for presentation at the Simpósio Internacional sobre Gerenciamento de Resíduos de Animais – SIGERA. March 12th & 13th, 2009. Florianópolis – SC, Brazil
Maia, G. D. N., R. S. Gates, M. D. Montross, S. E. Nokes, G. Brion, G. B. Day V, J.L. Taraba. 2008. Comparison of water sorption isotherms applied to compost biofilters of different particle sizes. ASABE. St Joseph, MI: ASABE (Paper and oral presentation).
Maia, G. D. N., R. S. Gates, G. B. Day V, S. E. Nokes, J. L. Taraba, G. Brion, G. T. Sales, A. Singh,. 2008. Contaminant gas generation as product of degraded ammonia during biofiltration. ASABE Paper No. 084630, St Joseph, MI : ASABE (Oral presentation and paper).
Sales, G. T., G. B. Day V., S. Gates, N. Lovanh, G. Del Nero Maia, and A. Singh. 2008. Assessment of different media particle sizes for ammonia removal optimization. Paper No. 084201. ASABE Intl Mtg, 30 June – 3 July. St. Joseph, MI : ASABE.
Maia, G. D. N., R. S. Gates, E. G. Wilkerson, S. F. Higgins, A. Singh, J. L. Taraba. 2007. (Presentation). Potential nitrous oxide generation during ammonia biofiltration., St Joseph, MI: ASABE (Oral presentation).
Maia, G. D. N., R.S. Gates, E. G. Wilkerson, S. F. Higgins, A. Singh, J. L. Taraba. 2006. Characterization of headspace gases in ventilated and impermeable swine manure tanks and their abatement using biofiltration. ASABE Paper No. 064027, St Joseph, MI : ASABE (Oral presentation).
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS
Funded intramural grants (funded = $92,000)
Design, implementation, and training for a beef flux-chamber system to quantify methane (Current, Support Grant, Research Board Committee, University of Illinois, $30,000)
Request for Repair of Existing Equipment (2011, College of ACES Office of Research Equipment Grant, University of Illinois, $25,000)
Request for midsize equipment (highly ranked proposal), College of ACES Office of Research Equipment Grant, University of Illinois, $37,000)
ASABE Superior Paper Award (2013):
Maia, G. D. N., G. T. Sales, G. B. Day V, R. S. Gates, and J. L. Taraba. 2012. Characterizing physical properties of gas-phase biofilter media. Trans. ASABE 55(5): 1939-1950
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES), Full Masters Scholarship funded by internationally recognized Brazilian Government Agency. 03/2001-03/2003. One of the top five students selected for the highly competitive M.S. program in Environmental Engineering at the University of São Paulo, Brazil
Funded extramural grants
Collaboration withR.S. Gates, A. Singh, S.F. Higgins and E.G. Wilkerson. Gaseous production from impermeable swine waste storage tanks and its abatement using biofilters (2007-2009 – $487,000). USDA National Research Initiative Air Quality Program. Approved as Outstanding Grant Proposal.
2012: Project Organizer for international workshop (funding source: FAPESP, Brazil) on Emissions, Ventilation and Animal Welfare in Livestock Systems held in the state of São Paulo, Brazil (October 2-4, 2012). Participating institutions: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, The Pennsylvania State University, Texas A&M, Iowa State University, University of Tennessee, EMBRAPA (Brazil), University of São Paulo (Brazil), UNICAMP (Brazil), Federal University of Viçosa (Brazil), Federal University of Paraná (Brazil), Katholic University of Lueven (Belgium), the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA), Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain), National University of Colombia, and the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science.
2012: University of Illinois Extensions Service(audience: producers) "How Much Moisture Do You Need and How Often? Ask Your Biofilter Media." Presentation in the Field day for ventilation management and air quality for livestock systems, Savoy, Illinois, October 2012.
2011, 2012, 2013: Volunteer, Engineering Open House, University of Illinois
TEACHING AND MENTORING
Structures and Environment Design (BAE 427), Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering Department, University of Kentucky, 2006
Surveying (AEN 103), Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering Department, University of Kentucky, 2005
Modeling of Environmental Processes for Engineers, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2002
Aspiring Data Scientists – Bud Analytics Lab – UIUC Research Park. I mentored and guided grad students from CS, Statistics, Math, Engineering, Library Sciences, Accountancy, and MBAs and armed them with business focused communication techniques.
International faculty: Brazilian Professors Danilo Pereira (ABE Visiting scholar, UNESP, Tupã) and Cecília de Fátima Souza (UK-BAE visiting scholar, Federal University of Viçosa)
D. students: Tatiana Sales (ABE-UIUC), Liangcheng Yang (ABE-UIUC), Weichao Zheng (ABE Visiting scholar, College of Water Conservancy & Civil Engineering, China Agricultural University), Giselle Borges (ABE Visiting scholar, University of São Paulo, Brazil), Maira Pecegueiro do Amaral (BAE-UK), Thayla Morandi (UNICAMP, Brazil), Jacob Segers (Animal Science, UIUC)
S. & B.S. students: Brett Ramirez (ABE-UIUC), Yi Sun (TSM-UIUC), Patricia Paulausky (ABE-UIUC), Micah Zehr (ABE-UIUC), Loren Anliker (ABE-UIUC), Kellie Kroscher (Animal Science, UIUC), Lucas Dutra de Melo (BAE-UK), Gabriela Morello (BAE-UK), Igor Lopes (BAE-UK), Tatiana Sales (BAE-UK), Andy Watson (BAE-UK)


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Let's face it. Solar panels on buildings, though not a bad idea, energy-wise, are pretty hideous. Developers hate them, and cities like Santa Monica even try to keep them out of sight. Which is why this new design from CASE has architects excited.
Nice-looking solar panels are kind of a Holy Grail for architects, because it means green design can become part of the architecture, not just an add-on. Which means an opportunity for creativity, snazzier designs, development dollars, and blog posts. Flash sells, and if it happens to be green too, all the better.
CASE, an R&D colabo between Rensselaer, SOM, and other engineering firms, has developed what they call the Dynamic Solar Facade–a wall of lenses that focus sunlight onto tiny, high-powered solar cells. It's also a multitasker: the lenses bring more light into the building and can help heat it up in the winter. It's still in development, but the first full-scale model will be up and running at Syracuse in March.
It's part of a trend: SMIT is working on a similar idea with their Solar Ivy, a net of solar panels that can be draped over an existing facade. The cool thing is, the panels can be made in any color, giving architects the chance to paint pixelated murals. One of the best buildings of 2008 was Enric Ruiz-Geli's Villa Nurbs, with its solar-activated squinting roof that controlled light and temperature inside the house. It's not a solar panel, exactly, but it's green design as an architectural element, which is a step in the right direction.


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Stark reflections
By Ashraf Jehangir Qazi
The Pakistan Movement by and large could have delivered on the hopes of most of the Muslims of undivided India even if they were not able to be part of Pakistan. If the Quaid was twenty years younger he may have ameliorated the trauma of Partition and imparted a dynamic to Pakistan's political development, including ties with India, which might have created an environment compatible with an eventual Kashmir settlement. More normal India-Pakistan relations could have reduced minority insecurities on both sides of the border. But that was not to be.
Soon after Quaid-e-Azam passed Pakistan began to lose its political and policy moorings in the petty politics and extractive economics of competing elites and the tragedy of contesting regions and wings. This cleared the path for an early military take-over of the country that stifled its political development.
Since then, civilian governments progressively degenerated into corrupt irrelevance and were unable to undertake the herculean task of building a modern nation. Human resource development, through significant budgetary allocations to infrastructure, education, health and the sciences, was shunted aside because of security imperatives. Technical expertise was supposed to compensate for political dereliction. The consequences cost the country dear and are still with us today.
It is said the first 100 days of an elected government more or less indicate the kind of government it is likely to be for the rest of its term. The present government in Pakistan after more than 1000 days in office has by and large confirmed the uncertain and somewhat dubious image it projected at the end of its first 100 days.
There were no better alternatives to the PTI at the time of the elections of 2018. This is less obvious today. The indifferent (many allege incompetent) performance of the government has begun to make some of the rejected parties appear more attractive today, even if there is no reason to believe they will be any better in the future than in the past. The views of the people don't matter. Their priorities don't count. Their representatives don't represent them. Their vote is a bad joke. Nothing can alter this situation except a host of empowering and sustained people's movements.
This is considered an unrealistic hope because of the implacably inimical power structure. This basic reality, however dreadful, is seen as an irremovable feature of the political scene despite the likely fatal cost to the country. The people are encouraged to have low self-esteem, and even lower expectations. Their anger, grief and despair are channeled towards internalizing cynicism and resignation. By this measure, governance in Pakistan has been a resounding success.
Pakistan's 'intelligentsia' knows this. But they do not do much apart from being comfortably sad, wise and complicit. Some brave souls are indeed taking real risks to protest. Many more console themselves that Pakistan, in whatever shape, is at least still around. Moreover, there are worse cases of governance in the world. They lament Pakistan is not respected. They know it is regularly snubbed. But they are comforted in the knowledge that from time to time it is needed. Moreover, China is a magic wand for Pakistan! Finally, in their 'wisdom', they accept things the way they are. What would the Quaid and the Allama have thought of them?
In the US, the Biden Administration completed its first 100 days on May 1, 2021. Recently, Biden described his presidency as an "inflection point" which would change the history of the world. It is not clear whether he was thinking of realizing America's potential or frustrating China's. Domestically, the Biden Administration cannot avoid being better than the bizarre and degenerate Trump Administration. But American society is polarized as never before. Trump's Neolithic base is intact. Congressional Republicans live in dread of it. Republican senators voted against a Congressional probe into the January 6, 2021 Trump supported 'Q-anon' assault on Congress.
Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the Senate, promised to atone for his opposition to Trump after his electoral defeat and assault on Congress by ensuring Biden would be a one-term president. He failed in a similar attempt against president Obama. But he succeeded in disabling Obama for the rest of his administration. If Biden loses a house in the mid-term elections next year he will be a lame-duck president for the rest of his one-term presidency. He will be too old and foggy to be nominated again.
Meanwhile, Biden has announced a ten-year $6 trillion spending programme to renew US infrastructure, deal with climate change and pandemics, and maintain its economic, technology and military edge over China and Russia. This is a massive spending programme. He will need to tax billionaires and corporations to pay for it. They don't like paying for anything. The poor are there to do that. Getting such a spending bill through a bitterly divided Congress will be difficult before the mid-term elections. The Republicans, through introducing voter suppression laws and regulations that target Black Americans in 14 states, could recapture the House.
Moreover, curtailing defence expenditures for future forever wars will also be problematic. They provide Corporate America, Big Military, Big Oil, Big Pharma, Big Data, Big AIPAC (Israel's lobby) and multi-billionaires guarantees of multi-trillion dollar gains while the under classes, including the lower middle class, are driven towards life precariously above, around and below the poverty line where few human and social rights exist. In fact, a renewed cold war against China and Russia will make it politically impossible to reduce defence expenditures.
Despite presenting himself as a modern day FDR (Roosevelt), Biden has refused a number of domestic reforms. He has not agreed to a minimum wage of $15; forgiveness of well over $1 trillion of student debt which will enslave them for the whole of their white-collar working lives; Medicare for all, as in all other advanced industrial countries; genuine police reforms that result in significant reductions in racist police violence against Black Americans; reducing massive and institutionalized income inequalities which breed Black despair, 'White Trash' hatred and violence , and a diversionary, profitable and belligerent foreign policy. Accordingly, the prospect of US instigated serious and escalating conflicts with China – and Russia – is likely to grow. China's Mars and Moon successes will exacerbate American paranoia and war hysteria.
The US cannot abide a world order it does not head. China will no longer accept a world order headed by a hostile power. The CCP celebrates its centenary this year with China becoming a middle income country, offering its citizens choices and a standard of living no Western imposed fake democracy ever could. US military bases and 'red lines' practically encircle China today. China will not tolerate this for long. China's 'soft power' development is almost as amazing as the development of its economy and military capacity. China's economic influence and rising soft power is beginning to embrace the world. The BRI has already made China a global economic power.
Europe is learning it cannot rest its security on a relatively declining and internationally aggressive US which may become increasingly unable or unwilling to accept the costs and risks of defending it against Russia backed by China. As for Israel, human rights organizations have documented its atrocities against the Palestinians in Gaza, East Jerusalem and the West Bank for exercising their legitimate right of resistance to expulsion and genocide. This will similarly entail a cost for Israel the US cannot underwrite endlessly.
However, Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy's warnings about the Arab and Muslim world misusing religious passion and unearned wealth, instead of developing a capacity for innovation, science and technology, rational thinking and a respectable global image as a source of strength vis- a-vis a much smaller but modern Israel, needs to taken seriously. It should motivate a national and indeed a cultural transformation if justice is ever to prevail over evil. As of now, no country in the Arab and Muslim heartland, barring Turkey and yes Iran, is even trying to respond to the challenge.
Biden, however, fully backs the Israelis in their genocidal war against the Palestinians to create Eretz Israel (Arz-e-Israel) – a Jewish National State in which only Jews are legally full citizens from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River. De facto if not de jure support for this criminal project defines the moral standing of the US and explains its declining 'soft power'. Despite the killing of 68 Gazan children, Biden says Israel has not "significantly overreacted." Instead, he has blamed Hamas' firing of rockets – ignoring the daily, deliberate, heartless and indescribable suffering criminally inflicted upon the population of Gaza, half of whom are children.
These Israeli crimes are specifically designed to compel Hamas into reacting with rockets which 'justifies' Israel's murderous 'response' and Biden's cynical support of "Israel's right to self-defence." Biden voted four times against a ceasefire. Read the letter to Biden from Sara Roy, an American expert on Gaza, to know the unimaginably inhumane insensitivity of the Biden Administration and its predecessors towards the utterly helpless Palestinians.
Sadly, over seven decades, Pakistan has failed to develop credible options to be relevant in such a situation; or even deal with its own domestic and external challenges. Accordingly, the US has the temerity to demand Pakistan undermine its own national and strategic interests. In return, the US strategically backs India against Pakistan, and further demands Pakistan cooperate with it in Afghanistan to counter the influence of China and Russia! This measures the extent of US contempt for Pakistan. Nevertheless, Pakistan's leaders keep pandering to it. China watches with unspoken concern.
Maybe, Pakistan's 'movers and shakers' will develop a patriotic conscience that allows a comprehensive national transformation to save Pakistan. Inshallah!
Email: ashrafjqazi@gmail.com
The writer is a formerambassador to the US, India and China and head of UN missions in Iraq and Sudan.


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"Lekker op de trekker ('n Boerinnen-wervingslied)", ook bekend als "Lekker op de trekker", is een nummer van het Nederlandse koor Mannenkoor Karrespoor. Het nummer werd uitgebracht op hun album Onbegriepuluk uit 1991. Dat jaar werd het nummer als dubbele A-kant met "Koekalverij" uitgebracht als de tweede single van het album.

Achtergrond
"Lekker op de trekker" is geschreven door koordirigent Richard van der Zee en geproduceerd door Van der Zee met muzikanten Marco Hof en Joop van der Linden. Nadat het koor eerder in 1991 een grote hit had met "Mooi man", moest er snel een opvolger komen. Het nummer bestond nog niet, alhoewel de titel "Lekker op de trekker" al wel bedacht was. Van der Zee schreef de tekst op de achterkant van een stuk behang toen hij zijn woning aan het opknappen was.

De tekst van "Lekker op de trekker" gaat over de boerenjongen Graddus, die op zoek is naar een vrouw. Nadat een advertentie in de krant geen reacties opleverde, schreef hij een lied om boerinnen te werven. Hij trad met het lied op in een radioprogramma, waarna hij het mocht opnemen in een studio. Hij behaalde veel succes en de vrouwen uit de stad kwamen op hem af, maar hij wilde alleen met een boerenvrouw mee. Uiteindelijk vindt hij een vrouw nadat hij met zijn auto achterop een tractor reed. In het nummer wordt een oproep gedaan aan vrouwen om boerin te worden, aangezien het grootste deel van de boeren man is. Het koor ging tevens op een zogeheten "boerinnenwervingstour" en kregen bijval van zanger Henk Westbroek. De actie werd een succes: het café De Karre, waar het koor ontstond, werd steeds meer door vrouwen bezocht.

"Lekker op de trekker" werd een nog groter succes dan "Mooi man", werd veel gedraaid op Radio 2 en Radio 3 en bereikte de derde plaats in de Nederlandse Top 40 en een tweede plaats in de Nationale Top 100 als hoogste noteringen. In 2019 kwam het nummer opnieuw onder de aandacht, nadat het een populaire plaat werd tijdens de boerenprotesten die op dat moment plaatsvonden. Tevens deed boerenorganisatie Team Agro NL een oproep om onder meer dit nummer in de jaarlijkse Top 2000 van NPO Radio 2 te krijgen. De actie werd een succes en het kwam dat jaar binnen op plaats 364 in de lijst.

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The suites are located on the third floor of the hotel. They are equipped with ample rooms furnished in style and bath with tiles from vietri (amalfi coast). The terrace with spectacular sea view and it is even more magic from the romantic outdoor bathtub under a green arbour.
Flat screen tv, minibar, coffee machine, safe, telephone, a/c, heating, hair dryer, wardrobe, private bathroom with shower, towels, bathrobe, slippers, courtesy bath products, outdoor bathtub, terrace.


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How Tulix Is Disrupting the Streaming Market with End-to-End Video Delivery Solutions
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As the demand for online content booms, Tulix is bringing people together with its top-of-the-line streaming services and the release of its new platform, Gia.TV.
The global streaming market is a massive industry. Expanding at a rate of more than 20% per year, it is expected to be worth more than 223 billion dollars by 2028, according to a market research report by Grand View Research. Not intimidated by the competition of media titans, up-and-coming streaming service company Tulix is disrupting the highly saturated streaming market and gaining popularity with the release of its new platform, Gia.TV.
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Structure du domaine en doigt de zinc de la protéine NEMO, déterminée par Résonance magnétique nucléaire (RMN). Cette protéine jouant un rôle dans des maladies (cancer, inflammation), les connaissances acquises sur sa structure offrent de précieuses informations sur sa fonction.
My group is focused on studying the cell biology of human enteroviruses, especially enterovirus B group viruses, including echoviruses and coxsackieviruses (see Marjomäki et al. Viruses, 2015 and references therein). In addition to causing high amount of acute infections worldwide, enterovirus B group viruses are associated with chronic diseases such as type 1 diabetes, cardiomyopathies and atherosclerosis. Despite of their significance, there are no common drugs or vaccination against them. Fundamental cell biology studies are thus needed to understand the infectious entry pathways and to develop novel antiviral strategies. My group is presently focusing on elucidating the host cell factors that affect virus stability, or promote viral uncoating and genome release from endosomes. The studies include confocal and electron microscopy, spectroscopy and biochemical approaches. In addition, my group has developed novel probes for enteroviruses as well as several cellular and viral assays to address different steps in virus uncoating, stability and infection. My group has also contributed to vaccine development and developing quantitative microscopy tools, such as the open-source software, BioImageXD for processing, analysis and animation of 3D/4D image data (www.bioimagexd.net). Recent major focus in the laboratory is to study the mechanistic basis of potential antiviral molecules that have recently been found from several molecular and drug screens.


A good cake recipe is worth keeping hold of.
If you need a basic yellow, white, chocolate or fruit cake recipe, then you'll find them right here. If you are making a shaped cake, you will need a firmer cake for cutting- check out the recipe for a great firm Yellow Cake.


Suzanne studied at the Manchester College of Arts & Technology where she completed the City & Guilds Vocational Paralegal Studies (ILEX) Level 2 in The Civil Litigation Process, The Legal Environment and general Legal Principles.
She began her legal career at a Manchester city centre firm of solicitors dealing with claims from both the Claimant and Defendant perspective and as a main point of contact for large Fleet company claims.
Having worked in the industry for many years specialising in Road Traffic Accident claims, Suzanne joined Hilary Meredith in February 2016 dealing with Road Traffic Accident, Employer and Public Liability claims within the Portal Team.
Suzanne enjoys spending time with her family in Yorkshire whenever she can and she also likes to travel especially taking city breaks.
Her other interests include going to the cinema, visiting art exhibitions and experiencing fine restaurants with her partner.


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Pat the Soothsayer è un cortometraggio muto del 1912 prodotto dalla Kalem e diretto da Pat Hartigan.

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Produzione
Il film, prodotto dalla Kalem Company, fu girato a Santa Monica.

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Distribuito dalla General Film Company, il film - un cortometraggio di 225 metri - uscì nelle sale cinematografiche USA il 1º novembre 1912. Nelle proiezioni, veniva programmato con il sistema dello split reel, accorpato in un'unica bobina con un altro cortometraggio prodotto dalla Kalem, il documentario The American Rhine.

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Collegamenti esterni

Cortometraggi commedia


Yes, I have been off-line for over two months. It wasn't planned this way but I won't put up with any more whining. Human-up, people! I feel confident that those of you who have been on a hunger strike, in a desperate effort to get me to blog again, will recover. Most of you needed to lose some weight anyway. To those who might not survive despite the IVs which were ultimately forced upon you, I would thank you for your sacrifice if I didn't think you were such idiots. Anyway, I have very little time right now since I am setting up housekeeping in a new area this week. I will just hit the highlights.
1. I had surgery on my mouth again and, as usual, it was awful. For the surgery I had to wake up at 4AM and ride in my carrier for three hours until we got to the specialist. He teaches at OSU and is supposed to be one of the best in the country for such things. He seemed nice enough and thought the world of me. While I was lucky that I did not have to stay overnight, another three hours in the carrier when I was still in a post-surgical haze made for a very long day. I'm being carted back to the doctor again next week for yet another follow-up. How is it that humans can't get the surgeries and the irritating medicine to work right the first time and then have the gall to make their failings into my problem. Regardless, I am eating well and have allowed nothing to come between me and my evening carrot.
4. As for politics, the elections have occurred since I last posted and to say that you American humans are hopeless does not even begin to convey the situation. That you manage to elect people who value myth above science** and who actively, even boldly, put the greed of corporate entities above your own welfare is inexplicable. I actually have quite a lot to say on this subject but not the time to dictate it today. Suffice to say, THUMP! *ear shake* *glare* THUMP!


She is rich. Very rich. She lives in a mansion with service staff, a chauffeur and a huge garden. He does not. He lives a normal life, in a normal home, he has everything he needs. She goes to charity gala, he sells fishes. When she loses everything and is forced to move to the same neighborhood with him, their two worlds will collide ... How can they stand each other?


It's been four months since the last Hill Valley post, as my "day job" continues to interfere with my hobbies. In fact, the Coconino County Fair has already passed, and in the final weeks leading up to the Fair the Club scenery experts worked tirelessly to install the completed structures, lay down roads and blend the scenery. Before we get to those photos, I wanted to talk about one more structure.
As you may recall from the introductory posts describing this project, the goal of the Hill Valley makeover was to rework the existing HO town into a representation of Flagstaff, Arizona in the 1950s such that it created the illusion that the town actually was Flagstaff, when in fact it was just a clever representation.
One of the key structures in achieving this illusion is the downtown passenger depot, originally constructed by ATSF between 1925 and 1926. Architecturally, it is a unique example of a Tudor Revival brick building with cross-gabled roof; a design not found anywhere else in the ATSF system.
Attempting to scratch-build this iconic structure would take many months, and having already spent that amount of time on the overall project it was decided instead to find a model that would invoke the flavor of the deport without actually replicating it. One of our Club members had an old Life-Like kit that he had found at a swap meet. It needed refurbishing and paint, but he immediately saw its potential as the perfect stand-in.
Well I've talked quite enough during this project. At this point I'll let photos of the final installation tell the remainder of the story. I hope you enjoyed following along, even if it did take much longer than first anticipated!
I hope you'll come visit us at the Club and see the new Hill Valley for yourself, as well as numerous other fantastic scenes on our layout. Thanks again! – Phil S.


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Nova Scotia to Maine
From Lunenburg, Nova Scotia we made a 225-mile overnight run to Southwest Harbor, Maine. We initially were planning to stay at least another night in Lunenburg, but the weather models showed a storm system arriving earlier than previously indicated with several more following, so we decided to leave a day early.
We timed our Southwest Harbour arrival for the afternoon to avoid navigating in the dark through the masses of lobster traps that we've been warned litter the Maine coast. That plan had us rounding Cape Sable, at the southern top of Nova Scotia, against a 2-kt ebb current. This is a nasty area where strong currents against big winds in shallow waters can generate dangerous conditions. The chart is full of warnings about tide rips. Conditions were calm when we passed through, so we only had to put up with the loss of speed and/or fuel economy.
Trip highlights from September 22nd and 23rd, 2016 follow. Click any image for a larger view, or click the position to view the location on a map. And a live map of our current route and most recent log entries always is available at http://mvdirona.com/maps
En Route to Maine
We're about 90 minutes out of Lunenburg and have calm seas with winds less than 15kts. We expect those conditions the duration of the run. We're running about 7 kts and aiming to arrive at Southwest Harbour tomorrow afternoon.
Positive Current
We're getting a nice push from a positive current and making nearly 8 kts at a fuel economy of 1.6nm/gallon. Conditions are wonderfully calm with winds less than five knots.
Little Hope
Little Hope Rock, barely showing above the surface at the left of the photo, looks like a real hazard.
Gull Rock
Position: -65 1.48, 43 38.54
The first light on tiny, bare Gull Rock to our west was completed in 1853. The current structure was built in 1955. The light is mounted atop a two-story square dwelling with reinforced concrete walls 17 inches (43cm) thick. The lighthouse was destaffed in 1987 and currently is at risk of collapse.
Lockeport
We're just passing south of Lockeport, where we cleared into Canada over eight weeks ago.
Cape Negro Island
Nova Scotia has over 150 lighthouses. This one is on Cape Negro island to our northwest.
The Salvages
The Salvages are a line of rocks, about 1.5nm long, with hardly any exposed land. The combined light house and dwelling is build high above the rocks to protect it from pounding waves and is a conspicuous landmark miles away.
CFS Barrington
The radar tower at decommissioned Canadian Forces Base (CFS) Barrington. The station was built as part of the Pinetree Line in the 1950s to provide early warning of a Soviet attack during the Cold War. The radar tower dwarfs the 45ft Baccaro Point light house on the left.
The light at Cape Sable wrapped in scaffolding. The "Friends of the Cape Sable Lighthouse" society has an annual fund-raising event to restore the lighthouse and make it more accessible to the public. This is a nasty area where strong currents against big winds in shallow waters can generate dangerous conditions. The chart is full of warnings about tide rips. Conditions are so calm right now that we're able to pass through the area called Tail of the Rip with hardly any noticeable boat motion.
Negative Current
As expected, we're rounding Cape Sable at maximum ebb, with 2.3kts of current against us. We're making less than five knots at a fuel economy of 0.770 nm/g. At 1800 RPM in flat water, we'd be doing about 7.6 knots. We expect this to last about 3-4 hours until the current turns to flood. We're "driving to the lights" to reach Southwest Harbor in the afternoon, and the Maretron display is showing orange indicating we should speed up to meet our deadline. We expect to get a push from the current later, so rather than burn fuel needlessly to meet the speed goal, we'll just put up with the slow speed and expect to gain the time back later.
Beautiful sunset at sea.
We've finally escaped the negative current and are getting a nice push again. The "driving to the lights" gauge now indicates we should slow down to meet our 2:30pm deadline. The fuel dock only has 6ft of water at low tide which is around 11am, so we need to arrive a bit later to have ample water. We're driving to schedule right now and aiming for the harbor entrance at 2:30 and the fuel dock shortly thereafter. We last fueled in Boston nearly 2 months and 290 engine hours back so we are running fairly light with 336 gallons left on board in all four tanks.
Around 2:30 this morning, the two cruise ships Zuiderdam and Rotterdam passed us about 4.5 miles away. Both ships were en route to Bar Harbour. It's going to be crowded there today for sure.
We treated both fuel tanks with 8 oz Biobar JF each. We do this every six months. This is a good shock treatment since we always use the same 16 oz on each treatment, but there is currently only 215 gallons in the two tanks. We also replaced the fuel in wing engine day tank with treated fuel and drained the supply tank, refilled it with treated fuel, then pumped it back down to fifteen gallons and polished that fuel in the bottom of tank for thirty minutes.
Fuel Debris
After having pumped off the bottom of all four tanks and completely changing the fuel in two of them, we took a sample in the bottom of the fuel transfer filter to check for water. As usual, no water was found, but there was a surprising amount of rust and debris.
Position: -67 50.29, 44 7.54
We saw our first lobster trap as we got into shallower water about 25 miles out of Southwest Harbor. The pots became more frequent the closer we got. Initially we had to steer around one every ten minutes or so, but as we neared the harbor we constantly were steering around pots. They weren't quite as thick as we were expecting—we'd heard stories of people having to push the traps out of the way they were so thick with no way to avoid them. But we definitely wouldn't want to approach or leave at night.
Clearing Through
James on the phone with US Customs to clear us through. Before we left Lunenburg we'd filed a float plan using the Small Vessel Reporting System and were asked only a cursory few questions before being given clearance.
As we entered Southwest Harbor, the winds picked up to twenty knots with rain and poor visiblity making those lobster traps harder to see.
We took on 1,490 gallons in our first fueling since Boston on July 31st.It's great that we can be out and running the generator or engine every day and still be able to go two months between fuelings. Admittedly, we were starting to get fairly low on fuel with only 262 gallons total on board. It gets uncomfortable when dropping down below 400 gallons but we remind ourselves that 400 gallons is nearly twice the fuel capacity of our first boat and is nearly one quarter of the capacity of this one. It's really not THAT low. And it's important that we be confident in our systems and have many redundant checks on fuel levels since, when crossing oceans, we will routine aim to finish the trip with only 10% reserve which is 175 gallons remaining. At the end of this run we had 262 gallons left so it's more than we would expect to have after a long run at sea.
We have 3 redundant checks: 1) the sight gauges on the side of the tanks showing fuel level, 2) the Maretron FPM100 fuel level sensors which are are primary measures, and 3) the engine ECU fuel consumed data point. Between them all, we have a lot of data and when we fill it's normal that our measures be within 2 to 3% and its usually closer to 0. Over time we have developed confidence in the system but we fully admit to there always being a chance we will get it wrong and it still has our attention when we are running at lower fuel levels. By the way, the savings in filling up in Maine rather than Nova Scotia was just over $3,000. Just this one trip paid for the cost of the fuel measuring sensors many times over.
Destinations, Maine, Nova Scotia
← Lunenburg Acadia National Park →


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Dwight Howard Scores 31, But Hawks Lead Magic 55-48 At Half
By Phil Foley Apr 16, 2011, 8:34pm EDT
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Dwight Howard is a one-man wrecking crew against the Atlanta Hawks. The only problem for the Orlando Magic is that he's practically on an island.
Howard had 31 points on 11-for-16 shooting from the field, but the rest of the Magic have just six field goals as the Hawks soared to a 55-48 lead at the break in Game One of the two club's first round playoff matchup in Orlando.
Joe Johnson netted 13 points and Al Horford had 12 for Atlanta, which shot 55-percent (22-for-40) from the field in the first half.
The Hawks haven't been able to do much of anything to contain Howard, who set a Magic playoff record with his 31-point first-half performance. Howard has posted up against Josh Powell and Jason Collins and gone to the basket strong, even finishing by connecting on free throws, where the generally sub-par free throw shooter has nailed 9-of-11 from the charity stripe.
The former Southwest Atlanta Christian Academy star is also getting things done on the glass, posting eight rebounds. However, there hasn't been much Magic from the rest of Orlando's basketball team, which simply is not nailing shots.
Atlanta, on the other hand, is nailing their jumpers.
Kirk Hinrich has 11 points on 5-for-7 shooting from the field. Jamal Crawford has shown up and also netted 11. And the Hawks aren't getting totally decimated on the boards, where both teams ended the first half with 17 rebounds.
Nevertheless, the Hawks can ill afford to get away from the game plan. If they want to win this one, they are going to have to remain committed to playing defense. They also can't fall in love with the jumper, as in a game of adjustments, you're not always going to nail them. Attacking Howard in the post in the second half will go a long way toward victory.
For those who are wondering, Howard needs 23 points in the second half to tie former Boston Celtics great John Havlicek's record of 54 points in a single playoff game against Atlanta. Havlicek set the mark on April 1, 1973 in a 134-109 win over Atlanta in Game One of the Eastern Conference Semifinals.
Of course, the NBA record for points in a playoff game is held by some guy named Michael Jordan. The former Chicago Bulls great posted 63 at Boston in a double-overtime thriller on April 20, 1986.
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The continent of Antarctica is a land of complexity and paradox, especially when talking about climate change. It is our driest and coldest desert on the planet but locks up an enormous amount of fresh water in it's thick ice sheets. The southern ocean surrounds the continent, insulating it from warmer latitudes, but those currents also bring warmer waters from the tropics to interact with the giant ice shelves around the continent.
And of course there is the paradox of Antarctic sea ice which is recording record sea ice extent over recent years due to the complex winds, currents and dynamics of melt water.
Sea ice growth or melt does not affect sea level rise. We need to look at what the great Ice sheets are doing to determine whether they are accelerating mass loss and contributing to sea level rise.
The GRACE satellites provide us with a remote measuring tool for ice mass balance, but like all tools it comes with certain biases built in. The job of the scientist is to analyse and correct for these biases.
The latest reassessment of GRACE data shows that Antarctica in total is losing net mass at an accelerating rate. However, there is snow accumulation on the high plateau of East Antarctica showing a net gain, while this is more than compensated by ice loss from West Antarctica.
"Despite the higher uncertainties, we find significant (2-sigma) accelerations over much of West Antarctica (overall increasing mass loss) and Dronning Maud Land (increasing mass gain) as well as a marginally significant acceleration for the ice sheet as a whole (increasing mass loss)."
Fig. 5. - Time series of ice mass changes for the (top) East, (middle) whole and (bottom) West Antarctic Ice Sheet estimated from GRACE RL05 solutions for 2003 to 2012. The optimal functional model chosen using BIC and including an optimal stochastic model of time-correlations is shown in blue.
"Over March 2003 to July 2012, East and West Antarctica ice mass change was +97 ± 13 and −159 ± 9 Gt/yr, respectively, with accelerations +18 ± 10 and −31 ± 7 Gt/yr2 , respectively (2-sigma uncertainties) not considering GIA model error bounds. Mass change for the entire Antarctic Ice Sheet is also best modeled with a linear plus acceleration functional model and a stochastic model that considers temporal correlations, giving an ice mass trend of −58 ± 16 Gt/yr and an acceleration of −15 ± 13 Gt/yr2 ."
Accurate data measurements of ice mass loss via laboriously estimating mass input and output has only been available since the early 1990s, and accurate satellite measurements (Gravimetry) via the GRACE satellites since 2000.
"that Pine Island Glacier's grounding line is probably engaged in an unstable 40 km retreat. The associated mass loss increases substantially over the course of our simulations from the average value of 20 Gt yr−1 observed for the 1992–2011 period4, up to and above 100 Gt yr−1, equivalent to 3.5–10 mm eustatic sea-level rise over the following 20 years. Mass loss remains elevated from then on, ranging from 60 to 120 Gt yr−1."
Dr Gudmundsson was one of the scientists involved in the study from the UK, France, Finland and China. They used numerical models to describe PIG's current and future behaviour.
So just the Pine Island Glacier will raise global sea levels on the order of perhaps 3.5-10mm in the next 20 years.
Increased oceanic melting of its ice shelf is thought to have triggered those changes. Observations and numerical modeling reveal large fluctuations in the ocean heat available in the adjacent bay and enhanced sensitivity of ice-shelf melting to water temperatures at intermediate depth, as a seabed ridge blocks the deepest and warmest waters from reaching the thickest ice. Oceanic melting decreased by 50% between January 2010 and 2012, with ocean conditions in 2012 partly attributable to atmospheric forcing associated with a strong La Niña event. Both atmospheric variability and local ice shelf and seabed geometry play fundamental roles in determining the response of the Antarctic Ice Sheet to climate.
Meanwhile in Watts Up With That land climate sceptics saw fit to compare my article on Waking the giant: Global Warming in the Weddell Sea, West Antarctic Ice Sheet and sea level rise with the funny 'rabbits ears' shape of sea ice extent and ridicule that Warm ocean currents are projected to melt the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf in the Weddell Sea area of Antarctica.
I think they may be a sign from Antarctica telling us that we've beat global warming, or at least that the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf in the Weddell Sea is safe from collapse for another year.... What do you think?
But if they had read my article properly they would have found that this is modelling of ocean currents which would start infiltrating the ice shelf around 2066. Much of the Ice mass loss from Antarctica will come from the destruction of ice shelves from basal melting, which will then allow an acceleration of ice streams presently being held in place by the ice shelves. The retreat of grounding lines of ice shelves, due to the dropping away of the sea floor in a substantial below sea level depression reaching depths of up to 2000m under much of West Antarctica, will also exacerbate basal melting and ice sheet instability.
We have already seen some spectacular ice shelf destruction and warming on the Antarctic peninsula like the Wilkins ice bridge collapse. Even celebrated naturalist and broadcaster David Attenborough warned of ice shelf destruction in Antarctica and it's impacts.
So rather than argue the scientific point about the inherent instability of ice shelves and the West Antarctic ice sheet with warming ocean currents and rising general ocean heat content, most of their post highlighted the record Antarctic ice extent which has been growing slowly in recent years. It is a form of cherry picking in which they concentrate attention on an anomalous fact to distract from the principle issue of accelerating Antarctic ice mass loss which raises sea levels.
Images from Simon D.P. Williams et al 2014. Lead image caption: Fig. 1. - Estimated accelerations and trends of ice mass change in mm of equivalent water height on a 500 km regular grid. (a) Estimated accelerations. Black contours indicate regions where the acceleration term is significant at the 2 sigma level. Green contours indicate regions where the acceleration term in the functional model is allowed according to the BIC criteria.


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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., The removal of McClellan. (search)
mstances had somewhat changed. Among other things, Stuart crossed the Potomac at Williamsport on the 10th of October, on his famous raid into Maryland and Pennsylvania, rode completely around the rear of the Army of the Potomac, and, eluding Pleasonton's vigorous but ineffectual pursuit, safely recrossed the river near the mouth of the Monocacy. One effect of this raid on the mind of the President is indicated in an anecdote related in Washington under Banks, Vol. II. of this work, p. 544.-treet's corps, had kept pace with McClellan's movement and advanced to Culpeper, and Jackson was still in the Valley of Virginia, distant several days' march behind Thornton's Gap, with D. H. Hill holding the western entrance to the gap against Pleasonton, who was on the east, observing its debouch. On that very day, the 5th of November, 1862, President Lincoln, with his own hand, wrote the following order: It is virtually certain that General McClellan never saw this order, which, in the
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., The opposing forces at Fredericksburg, Va. (search)
k, 14; w, 187; m, 54 == 255. Second Brigade, Col. Edward Harland: 8th Conn., Maj. John E. Ward, Capt. Henry M. Hoyt; 11th Conn., Col. Griffin A. Stedman, Jr.; 15th Conn., Lieut.-Col. Samuel Tolles; 16th Conn., Capt. Charles L. Upham; 21st Conn., Col. Arthur H. Dutton; 4th R. I., Lieut.-Col. Joseph B. Curtis (k), Maj. Martin P. Buffum. Brigade loss: k, 2; w, 29; m, 10 == 41. Artillery: E, 2d U. S., Lieut. Samuel N. Benjamin; A, 5th U. S., Lieut. James Gilliss. cavalry division, Brig.-Gen. Alfred Pleasonton. First Brigade, Brig.-Gen. John F. Farnsworth: 8th Ill., Col. William Gamble; 3d Ind., Maj. George H. Chapman; 8th N. Y., Col. Benjamin F. Davis. Second Brigade, Col. David McM. Gregg, Col. Thomas C. Devin: 6th N. Y., Col. Thomas C. Devin, Lieut.-Col. Duncan McVicar; 8th Pa., Lieut.-Col. Amos E. Griffiths; 6th U. S., Capt. George C. Cram. Artillery: M, 2d U. S., Lieut. Alexander C. M. Pennington, Jr. center Grand division, Maj.-Gen. Jos. Hooker. Third Army Corps, Brig.-Gen. G
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., A bit of partisan service. (search)
hundred times its own number. The line must be stronger at every point than the attacking force, else it is broken. At that time Hooker asked that the cavalry division belonging to the defenses of Washington be sent to the front to reinforce Pleasonton when he crossed the Rappahannock to engage Stuart in the great cavalry combat of June 9th. At Brandy Station.--editors. It was refused on the ground that it was necessary to keep it where it was, in order to protect the communication between the army and Washington. Afew days before that fight we struck the railroad within two miles of this cavalry camp, and captured and burned a train of supplies going up to Pleasonton. The 3000 men who came after me could not run any faster than the twenty with me. We vanished like the children of the mist, and the major-general who pursued reported that we had been annihilated. But within less than a week I pul led myself together again, crossed the Potomac about twelve miles above Washington
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., chapter 3.25 (search)
running for their lives. Gathering up such troops as were nearest to the scene of action, Berry's division from the Third Corps, some from the Twelfth, Hays's brigade of the Second, and a portion of the Eleventh, an effectual stand was made. Pleasonton, who was returning from the front, where he had been operating with Sickles (at the time Jackson attacked), taking in the state of things, rapidly moved his two regiments of cavalry and a battery to the head and right flank of the enemy's advanf the Eleventh Corps on the Plank road. his right flank perpendicular to the old one and barely half a mile to the right of Chancellorsville. Sickles was retired, with the two columns, from his advanced position in the afternoon to near where Pleasonton had had his encounter, before mentioned, some distance to the left of the new line of our right flank and close up to the enemy. The situation was thought to be a very critical one by General Hooker, who had simply a strong body in front of th
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., The successes and failures of Chancellorsville. (search)
ses and failures of Chancellorsville. by Alfred Pleasonton, Brevet Major-General, U. S. A. UniMajor Clifford Thomson, a-ide-de-camp on General Pleasonton's staff, in a letter written in 1866 givaccount of the fight at Hazel Grove: General Pleasonton rode from gun to gun, directing the gunnhey could not be clearly distinguished. General Pleasonton was about to give the order to fire, wheseen — trophies picked up on the field. General Pleasonton turned to me and said: Mr. Thomson,the report of the first shot fired at me General Pleasonton had opened fire, and those twenty-two gune. Word had gone out through the army that Pleasonton and his staff had been killed; so, when tire the army a day or two after this fight, General Pleasonton chanced to call at Hooker's headquartersofficer said: Mr. President, this is General Pleasonton, who saved the Army of the Potomac the onct of a natural soldier, could have enabled Pleasonton to accomplish so much in so short a time wit[2 more...]
that he had been sent for a regiment of General Pleasonton's cavalry. General Sickles immediately General Pleasonton to send a regiment. General Pleasonton then ordered me to report with my regimeFrom the information I had received from General Pleasonton, and from hearing the aide make his repor in the charge, was unable to recognize General Pleasonton's description of it and the surrounding h no idea that it would be preserved. General Pleasonton's report of the operations of his commanand no mention is made of any order from General Pleasonton to charge. This report was before Pleas. in reply to statements contained in General Pleasonton's paper, p. 179.--editors. by James F. H . . The enemy showing himself on the plain, Pleasonton met the attack at short range with the well-as broken up and routed on the 2d, . . . General Pleasonton collected some batteries belonging to dis of the remarkable tumulus described by General Pleasonton, it certainly did not contain the debris[8 more...]
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., The Eleventh Corps at Chancellorsville. (search)
arm into good position to cover Devens's flank. Devens held at least two regiments well in hand, for the same purpose, and Steinwehr's whole division I knew could just face about and defend the same point. A few companies of cavalry came from Pleasonton. I sent them out. Go out beyond my right; go far, and let me know if an assault is coming. All my staff, Asmussen, Meysenberg, Whittlesey, C. H. Howard, Schofield, Dessauer, Stinson, Schirmer, and Hoffmann, were keenly on the alert. We had nused to the first division of our enemy, all his rear lines had closed up, and the broad mass began to appear even below me on my left front to the south of Steinwehr's knoll. Then it was, after we had been fighting an hour, that Sickles's and Pleasonton's guns began to be heard, for they had faced about at Hazel Grove obliquely toward the north-west, and were hurrying artillery, cavalry, and infantry into position to do what they could against the attack now reaching them. I had come to my
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., The opposing forces in the Chancellorsville campaign. (search)
ol. Koert S. Van Voorhis. Brigade loss: k, 49; w, 219; in, 260 = 528. Artillery, Capt. Joseph M. Knap: E, Pa., Lieut. Charles Atwell (w), Lieut. James D. McGill; F, Pa., Capt. Robert B. Hampton (k), Lieut. James P. Fleming. Artillery loss: k, 3; w, 15 = 18. cavalry Corps, The Second and Third Divisions, First Brigade, First Division, and the Regular Reserve Brigade, with Robertson's and Tidball's batteries, on the Stoneman raid. Brig.-Gen. George Stoneman. First division, Brig.-Gen. Alfred Pleasonton. First Brigade, Col. Benjamin F. Davis; 8th Ill., Lieut.-Col. David R. Clendenin; 3d Ind., Col. George H. Chapman; 8th N. Y.,----; 9th N. Y., Col. William Sackett. Brigade loss: k, 1; w, 8; m, 22 = 31. Second Brigade, Col. Thomas C. Devin: L, 1st Mich., Lieut. John K. Truax; 6th N. Y., Lieut.-Col. Duncan MoVicar (k), Capt. William E. Beardsley; 8th Pa., Maj. Pennock Huey; 17th Pa., Col. Josiah H. Kellogg; 6th N. Y. Battery, Lieut. Joseph W. Martin. Brigade loss: k, 12; w, 54; m,
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., The Confederate cavalry in the Gettysburg campaign. (search)
nsinuates, a courier from General Lee met me. My command was hurried from there to Chambersburg, and thence by forced march, on the night of July 2d, to Cashtown, where it arrived at about 10 A. M. on July 3d. Ascertaining at Cashtown that General Pleasonton was moving from Emmitsburg directly on the baggage and ammunition trains of General Lee's army, which were exposed to his attack without defense of any kind, I pressed forward with my command and intercepted the advance of General PleasontoGeneral Pleasonton, under the command of Major Samuel H. Starr. A severe and gallant fight was made at Fairfield, in which Major Starr of the 6th United States Regular Cavalry was wounded and captured with a large portion of his staff, while his regiment was severely damaged. Adjutant John Allan and three others of the 6th Virginia Cavalry were killed, 19 were wounded, and 5 were reported missing. That fight at Fairfield, on the last day of the fighting at Gettysburg, refutes the imputation intended by Colo
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., The first day at Gettysburg. (search)
not until 1863 that it was united under General Pleasonton in a corps consisting of three weak divi infantry were still near that town, ordered Pleasonton to beat up Stuart's camps at Culpeper, and gposed movements. For these purposes he gave Pleasonton two small brigades of infantry, 3000 men undFleetwood Hill. Dividing his force equally, Pleasonton ordered Buford and Ames to cross at Beverly forces in the most favorable manner to meet Pleasonton's converging movements. At daybreak BuforDuffie finally came up and Gregg reported to Pleasonton, informing him of the approach of Confederate infantry from Culpeper. Pleasonton, who had captured some important dispatches and orders, now coat 485, of whom 301 were killed or wounded. Pleasonton reports an aggregate loss (exclusive of Duffd neither. As soon as Hooker learned from Pleasonton that a large infantry force was at Culpeper,7th he encountered, near Aldie, a portion of Pleasonton's command; a fierce fight ensued, which left[1 more...]


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is a trolleybus and cable car station in Tateyama, Nakaniikawa District, Toyama Prefecture, Japan.

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Tateyama Kurobe Kankō
Tateyama Tunnel Trolley Bus (Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route)
Tateyama Ropeway (Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route)

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Railway stations in Toyama Prefecture
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Courlis, nom normalisé des huit espèces de limicoles du genre Numenius ;
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Moreland City Council acknowledges we are in a state of climate emergency that requires urgent action by all levels of government, including local Councils.
This is why in 2017/18, Moreland City Council and Moreland Energy Foundation developed Moreland's Zero Carbon 2040 Framework.
This framework is designed to guide our community to transition to zero carbon by 2040 – 10 years ahead of the State Government's target for reaching zero emissions in Victoria.
What is the 2040 framework?
The key priorities for action and advocacy outcomes within the Framework will be reviewed each five years and re-set for the following five-years.
This Framework builds on the original 2014 Zero Carbon Evolution (ZCE) Strategy and the ZCE – Refresh to 2020.
You can read the full 2014 Zero Carbon Evolution Strategy here (3MB PDF).
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Moreland Energy Foundation Ltd (MEFL) is an independent not-for-profit organisation. We are committed to accelerating the energy transition by empowering communities to take action. We work hard to ensure communities play a meaningful part in this transition and that no one gets left behind.


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01 Apr 08. Robonic, the Sagem-owned, Finland-based UAV subsidiary, has obtained a contract to deliver a third-generation UAV launcher system to the Finnish
Armed Forces (FAF). The dual-role system will support the launch of aerial targets by the Finnish Air Force, in addition to launching the Finnish Army's Ranger system. The contract value was not disclosed. The Robonic delivery marks the first time a Robonic UAV system has been optimized for dual-role operations to meet differing user needs by armed forces. The company, which was acquired by France's Sagem group in 2007, has already delivered target and Ranger launchers to the FAF. Robonic produces a complete product range for UAVs with launch weights from 50 to 500 kilograms, and up to a maximum launching power of 8,500 kilowatts, with its launcher systems using both tactical UAVs and target drones. (Source: Defense News)
27 Mar 08. Northrop Grumman Corporation has received a contract from the U.S. Army to provide soldiers with additional SCORPION(tm) unattended ground sensor (UGS) system spares and technical support. The primary function of the SCORPION(tm) system is to provide long and short range target recognition for situational awareness, border and perimeter security and persistent surveillance. The contract, valued at $2.4m, is a follow-on contract to the recently completed CENTCOM UGS program for which Northrop Grumman delivered over 600 SCORPION(tm) systems to the U.S. Army and over 900 worldwide. Work on this current contract will be performed at the Northrop Grumman Xetron facility in Cincinnati. (Source: ASD Network)
25 Mar 08. Phoenix Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV): Out of Service. The MoD announced (25 Mar 08) that the Phoenix UAV was to go out of service on 31 Mar 08, to be replaced by the Watchkeeper system in 2010. Hermes 450 UAV are now being used in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
Comment: 32 Regiment, Royal Artillery, is the Army's tactical UAV Regiment. On 17 Jul 06 the Armed Forces' Minister said that Phoenix had cost approximately £345m since inception and on 6 Dec 06 he said that 73 of the UAV remained in service. (Source: DNA DEFENCE NEWS ANALYSIS, Issue 0813, 31 Mar 08)
02 Apr 08. Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, Integrated Systems Air Combat Systems of San Diego, Calif., is being awarded a contract for $10,000,000. This effort is for Lot 8 advance purchase items for: two Block RQ-4 Air Vehicles; three Block 40 Air Vehicles (AV); four Multi-Platform Radar Technology Insertion Program (MP-RTIP) sensors; four Enhanced Integrated Sensor Suites (EISS); Mission Control Element (MCE) One Launch Recovery Element (LRE). At this time $10,000,000 has been obligated. Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, is the contracting activity (FA8620-08-C-3001).