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Sitings News September 2009
As we roll into September, Sitings is pleased to keep you up-to-date with the latest news on our Tenants and Property Listings. We are excited to bring you a project an update on New Westminster Station as well as a look at the tenant mix at Garibaldi Village in Squamish. To discover more about these stories and receive up-to-date articles on our featured properties across Western Canada please continue reading.
What to Expect at the Canadian ICSC Convention in Toronto?
What a year it has been since we all met eleven months ago in Toronto for the yearly ritual of the Canadian Convention. Last fall it was feared that the financial world was in the process of falling apart – with many economists forecasting financial Armageddon. At the Whistler ICSC early this year, it appeared that the meltdown was slowing down but in our industry we were just discussing deals – not doing deals. By the Montreal ICSC in June 2009, there was more hope – but deals were elusive. Over the summer months, we at Sitings saw ourselves getting busy again, and landlords as tenants seem ready to move forward in our 'new reality'. We have a degree of optimism that we will be discussing real deals in Toronto – the question is what those deals are going to look like?
We are in real interesting times. After spending a fair bit of time driving the through western Canada over the summer it was surprising how little visible vacancy there is. That said, there are more "for lease" signs visible on the streets than in the shopping centers. There are national tenants phoning landlords looking for rent concessions. One well known name when asked to quantify their position i.e. sales decreases, the tenants refused. I think there are some tenants who are having tough times and others who taking advantage of the times.
The big box tenants have been going slow and have attitudes which are infected with the "American Flu" – where the problems are much deeper and more widespread. They are looking for sharper deals that compete with the rents and allowances achievable in the US. Our x-team partner in San Francisco is now doing deals under $10.00 PSF for space which 2 years ago would have gone for over $20.00 PSF. In Canada we have just not had the same rash of space coming back into the market. Our markets are not as challenged.
The fashion retailers have slowed to a crawl. The American fashion retailers are fighting big same store sales decreases and many cash flow issues. The Canadian fashion retailers have had same store decreases but not anywhere near what has gone on in the U.S. The good news is the Canadian dollar has strengthened, solving the margin issues created when the dollar fell drastically last fall. This market will remain tough for a while.
The full service restaurant business is difficult on two fronts: firstly there have been sales decreases, and secondly there is less money available to finance leaseholds from traditional sources. Thank goodness for the fast food and service retailers who have fared much better and in some cases, like McDonald's, have prospered through the tough times.
The landlords have their challenges too. Cash flow from properties are being challenged by tenants looking for rent relief, going bankrupt, exercising termination rights, or just plain not renewing. The market has been such that it has been virtually impossible to prelease a new shopping center, with the exception being grocery/drug anchored centers that cater to the service industry. The landlords, going forward, are going to be challenged with the new higher cap rates which mean they need more rent, not less, to make projects work.
So where does leave us for the up coming convention? I think the landlords are going to have to bring sharper pencils and the tenants are going to have to believe that things are as bad as they are going to get, and now getting better. The difference this year will be the tenants can do deals. The real question mark is probably on new development where there will be the biggest spread between what the Landlord's need to proceed and what the Tenant's are prepared to pay right now.
I am optimistic that things are getting better, but if I wasn't an optimist I wouldn't be a broker.
– Stephen Knight
Project Update: New Westminster Station
With the opening of The Canada line from Richmond to Vancouver, there has been increased attention focused on public transit as a means to move people in our region. New Westminster station is a prime example of how transit and mixed use projects will be a more common trend in urban development. In 2007, there were an average of 109,940 trips per week that either began or ended at New Westminster Station. This brings an enormous amount of traffic right to the retailers doorstep.
With a Safeway and a Shoppers Drug Mart as anchors, the shopping centre will have a consistent daily customer base. Mass transit and retail development is common in Europe and Asia, but is now becoming more popular in North America. The winner of this years ICSC Future Image Architecture Competition was a transit –based concept that "envisions the day when commuting and shopping are pretty much one and the same."
Dan Clark Leasing agent for the site says "We always knew this was going to be a great development, but the response we have had from tenants is been tremendous. It is one of the best new developments in Canada."
1) Douglas College with 14,000 staff and students sits adjacent to the project.
2) Dense urban population surrounds the site. There is over 60,000 people within walking distance of the site.
3) The skytrain station has weekly boarding and departures of 109,000 per week at New Westminster Station.
4) The New Westminster Bus Terminal is located on site.
5) New Westminster Station has 750 residential units located directly above the retail.
Some of the Tenants joining New Westminster Station are Safeway, Shoppers Drug Mart, RBC, Bread Garden, International News, A&W, Subway, Westland Insurance, Togo Sushi, Extreme Pita, TAG Liqour Stores, New West Dental Centre, Mega Bites Pizza, etc.
New Westminster Station is ideal for any service based use and is schedule for completion in early 2011.
Premier Whistler Tenants Join Garibaldi Village
Escape Route Outdoor Equipment, and Samurai Sushi join Garibaldi Village.
In operation for more than 20 years Escape Route is whistlers oldest and most respected outdoor equipment company. Owner Jayson Falkner who travels Route 99 weekly said that "Garibaldi Village will be the premier site in Squamish". Their new store will be 2,300sf
Samurai Sushi Squamish is a restaurant coming to us from the owners of Teppan Village and Samurai Sushi Whistler. This will be their first location in Squamish and fourth in the Whistler/Squamish region. Ru Mehta stated that Garibaldi Village was the obvious choice for their Squamish location
Construction is now completing at Garibaldi Village, and is on track to wrap up in November. Three retail spaces remain in the 1,000sf to 6,300sf range. This site has excellent visibility and access from Hwy 99 and is shadow anchored by Extra Foods, Canadian Tire and Garibaldi Cinemas. The completion of this project will solidify this stretch of Hwy 99 as the premier retail node in Squamish. Other retailers joining Garibaldi Village are London Drugs, Flight Centre, Booster Juice, Fat Burger, Warehouse One, BC Liquor Stores, Westland Insurance and Tom Harris Cellular.
Mucho Burrito is looking for Deals in BC!
Mucho Burrito is expanding in Canada and franchisees are ready to go. Part of the Extreme Brandz family of quick service food concepts, they are backed by a successful, experienced corporate group. Mucho Burrito serves gourmet Mexican food at a slightly higher price point. Locations are built out to a very high quality of finish.
Mucho Burrito is currently sourcing flagship locations in the Lower Mainland, Vancouver Island and select regions in BC's Interior in the 1,600 to 2,200 sf range.
There will be a new Mucho Burrito location opening at Westbank's Marine Way Market in Burnaby this fall.
Retailers On the Move
Dollar Giant: Dollar Giant is actively sourcing sites from BC to Eastern Ontario. Dollar Giant has recently opened a store in SmartCentres St. Catharines West. 4 more locations are scheduled to open before the end of the year. Growth plans call for another 10-15 stores to be opened in 2010, sourcing locations from BC to Ontario in the 8,000 to 10,000 sf range. Dollar Giant now operates 80+ corporate stores.
For more information please contact Dan Clark (dan@sitings.ca, 604.628.2577).
Michaels: Michaels has over 1000 stores in North America, and is actively searching for infill sites in Western Canada. Typically, they require 17,000 SF for stores in smaller markets and 21,000 SF in larger markets. Michaels currently operates 14 stores in BC, 15 in Alberta, and 5 in Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Michaels is the only major arts and crafts retailer of its kind in Canada.
For more information please contact Stephen Knight (stephenk@sitings.ca, 604.628.2577).
Office Depot: Office Depot is active in Western Canada remodeling existing stores and looking to open a new, more efficient store model. Ideal spaces are about 18,000 SF. Office Depot needs strong area tenants and a relatively high concentration of small to medium businesses (0-50 employees).
Retimans Group: The Reitmans Group and its associated brands have just wrapped up a tour of Alberta. Some recent openings: Additionelle in Sunridge Mall in Calgary Smart Set in CrossIron Mills Thyme Maternity in Bower Place in Red Deer RW & Co. In CrossIron Mills
XS Cargo: XS Cargo has opened a new location in Vaughn Ontario. They are also sourcing a potential new location in East Winnipeg and East Ottawa. Please contact us if there are any sites you would like to present. Stores require approximately 9,000 -11,000 square feet in strong retail areas with easy ingress/egress, ample parking, and loading for a trailer truck. XS Cargo is one of the largest closeout retailers in Canada and now operates40 stores nationwide.


Cell number is a critical factor that determines kernel size in maize (Zea mays). Rapid mitotic divisions in early endosperm development produce most of the cells that make up the starchy endosperm; however, the mechanisms underlying early endosperm development remain largely unknown. We isolated a maize mutant that shows a varied-kernel-size phenotype (vks1). Vks1 encodes ZmKIN11, which belongs to the kinesin-14 subfamily and is predominantly expressed in early endosperm development. VKS1 dynamically localizes to the nucleus and microtubules and plays key roles in the migration of free nuclei in the coenocyte as well as in mitosis and cytokinesis in early mitotic divisions. Absence of VKS1 has relatively minor effects on plants but causes deformities in spindle assembly, sister chromatid separation and phragmoplast formation in early endosperm development, thereby resulting in reduced cell proliferation. Severities of aberrant mitosis and cytokinesis within individual vks1 endosperms differ, thereby resulting in varied kernel sizes. Our discovery highlights VKS1 as a central regulator of mitosis in early maize endosperm development and provides a potential approach for future yield improvement.


In Safari and Chrome on Mac OS Note : Safari and Chrome store your MIT CA (Certificate Authority) and personal certificate in a file known as a Keychain. Under your Mac OS X account, go to Applications > Utilities > Keychain Access .... How to View your Certificate Expiration Date on Older Chrome Browsers It's possible you may not be able to access certificate information through the address bar if you're using an older version of Chrome.
In Safari and Chrome on Mac OS Note : Safari and Chrome store your MIT CA (Certificate Authority) and personal certificate in a file known as a Keychain. Under your Mac OS X account, go to Applications > Utilities > Keychain Access .
When establishing a secure connection with one of WebMoney Transfer services (for example https://security.wmtransfer.com) you see the window shown below in Google Chrome then you have to install WM Transfer root certificate.


SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket launched on the CRS-2 cargo mission to the International Space Station from Cape Canaveral, FL, on March 1, 2013.
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket launched on the CRS-2 cargo mission to the ISS from Cape Canaveral, FL, on March 1, 2013.
Overnight, Falcon 9 went vertical on the pad at Cape Canaveral, FL, before launch on March 1, 2013.
Late cargo is loaded into Dragon before launch to the International Space Station from Cape Canaveral, FL, on March 1, 2013.
Sun rises over SpaceX's launch pad at Cape Canaveral, FL, with the Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon capsule ready to go to space on March 1, 2013.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket soars skyward after launching from Space Launch Complex 40 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 10:10 a.m. EST on March 1, 2013, carrying a Dragon capsule filled with cargo toward the International Space Station. It is SpaceX's third Dragon flight to the station and second cargo mission for NASA.
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket lifts off Space Launch Complex 40 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 10:10 a.m. EST, March 1, 2013, carrying a Dragon capsule filled with cargo.
SpaceX's Dragon space capsule is seen from a camera aboard its Falcon 9 rocket after separating from the booster following its March 1, 2013 launch toward the International Space Station on the second cargo mission for NASA. The spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., at 10:10 a.m. ET.
Commander Chris Hadfield, aboard the International Space Station, tweeted this photo on March 1, 2013, following the launch of SpaceX's Dragon cargo capsule from Cape Canaveral, FL. He wrote: "Far behind us in the distance we spotted a Dragon roaring up through the clouds, coming to catch us. Amazing. pic.twitter.com/gRzR6cGGTg"
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket races into a cloudy sky over Space Launch Complex 40 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, carrying a Dragon capsule filled with cargo to orbit. Launch was at 10:10 a.m. EST, March 1, 2013.


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Walgreens Cooler Screens fridge door tracking, advertising
Occurred: March 2022
Walgreens and other US retailers are increasingly using Cooler Screens digital screens in place of traditional refrigerated doors in order to show customers personalised real-time adverts from Coca-Cola, Nestle, and others, and to increase sales.
The use of the technology is proving controversial, with customers and commentators claiming they are unnecessary, creepy, and intrusive. Walgreens first piloted the Cooler Screens system in Chicago in January 2019.
The use of Cooler Screens has attracted considerable concerns and criticism:
Appropriateness/need: Some people complain the Cooler Screens system are unnecessary and overly 'in-your-face'.
Privacy: Cooler Screens says all data collected by its system is anonymised system; yet it has been described as overly 'in-your-face' and 'intrusive' and its initial pilot at Walgreens Chicago raised concerns about cameras reputedly installed to guess a customer's age, gender, and mood. Pam Dixon, the executive director of the World Privacy Forum, described Walgreens use of the system as 'The creepy factor here is definitely a 10 out of 10.'
Scope creep/normalisation: Cooler Screens says it is keen to expand its system across retailer's operations. Walgreens says future enhancements such as voice recognition will be 'carefully reviewed and considered in light of any consumer privacy concerns'.
Cooler Screens says it plans to educate customers about the digital displays and launch features such as voice recognition. However, customers are still not informed that they are being tracked by sensors and cameras.
Furthermore, per The Takeout, Cooler Screens claim that '90%+ of consumers no longer prefer traditional glass cooler doors' may be 'extremely inflated' given only two thousand people were surveyed.
Operator: Walgreens; Kroger; CVS; GetGo, Chevron
Developer: Cooler Screens
Purpose: Personalise advertising
Technology: Advertising management system; Emotion recognition; Eye tracking; Facial scanning; Iris recognition; Recommendation algorithm; Voice recognition
Issue: Appropriateness/need; Privacy; Scope creep/normalisation
Transparency: Marketing; Privacy
https://www.coolerscreens.com/
https://www.coolerscreens.com/demo
https://www.prweb.com/releases/cooler_screens_expands_its_new_digital_in_store_experience_at_walgreens/prweb16827113.htm
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/money/shopping/2022/03/15/walgreens-cooler-screens-refrigerated-doors/7046051001/
https://thetakeout.com/walgreens-digital-cooler-screens-show-ads-to-customers-1848657804
https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/12/business/walgreens-freezer-screens/index.html
https://www.cnn.com/videos/business/2022/03/11/walgreens-cooler-screens-reaction-ht-orig.cnn-business
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/why-would-walgreens-do-this-the-stores-latest-update-is-annoying-some-shoppers/ar-AAUZ2rq
https://www.extremetech.com/electronics/332836-surprisingly-shoppers-hate-frozen-food-doors-made-of-ads
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/jan/11/facebook-posts/no-high-tech-refrigerators-walgreens-arent-scannin/
https://retailwire.com/discussion/walgreens-tests-tech-that-sort-of-recognizes-you-in-store/
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/01/walgreens-tests-new-smart-coolers/581248/
https://www.fastcompany.com/90302382/its-not-just-google-or-facebook-the-freezer-aisle-is-ad-targeting-you-too
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/walgreens-and-other-retailers-to-install-cameras-that-guess-your-age-gender-and-mood-2019-04-24
https://www.wsj.com/articles/walgreens-tests-digital-cooler-doors-with-cameras-to-target-you-with-ads-11547206200

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Opened on the first of January this year makes Reuben Hills the new kid on the block. If you are looking for an option to the regular breakfast fare then order one of the two Balaeda's on offer. Both are delicious. Eggs and black beans or the spicy pulled pork. Coffee is roasted in house upstairs. Great mix of wood, steel and concrete make up the interior.


Crewe, England - The Mulsanne, Sire, has always been more about opulence than performance but when you're opting for the grandest Bentley of them all, why can't you just have both then? If that was ever your question, behold the new Bentley Mulsanne Speed.
Described by its creator as the "world's fastest ultra-luxury driving experience" the Mulsanne Speed ups the ante with a reworked engine, sportier suspension and assertive styling to match its new apparent attitude.
Yet since its name is Speed, let's talk about that first. The Mulsanne's 6.75-litre twin-turbo V8 has been tweaked to produce 395kW and 1100Nm - just in case the 'standard' model's outputs of 377kW and 1020Nm seemed weak. The new model will speed from 0-100km/h in 4.8 seconds, according to Bentley, and reach a top speed of 305km/h. It's also 13 percent more efficient, for what that's worth.
Bentley Chairman Wolfgang Dürheimer describes this car's mission rather aptly: "The new Mulsanne Speed is the car that defines Bentley, as a flagship for driving luxury performance. Our customers don't compromise, and we've adopted the same approach in the design, engineering and crafting of our new flagship."
Now obviously Bentley hasn't gone and modified the suspension to give it a stiff ride, but in addition to the existing Comfort suspension modes that this model retains, the driver is now able to switch to a Sport mode at the touch of a button. This stiffens the air suspension to improve body control and adjusts the steering system to provide better feedback.
That racy feeling extends to the interior décor, which has a new two-tone colour theme and offers the option of Piano Black veneer panels with handcrafted carbon fibre inlays for those wanting a more sporty ambience. Of course, there are lots of other options to explore, with 24 different hide colours and ten different veneers to choose from.
Entertainment is sorted by a 60gb on-board hard drive, electrically-operated tables with recesses and connections for iPads and matching keyboards, on-board Wi-Fi through a dedicated router, rear-seat entertainment system with two eight-inch screens and a 2200 watt premium audio system with 14 speakers.
Finally, to ensure that the rest of the Royals notice that your Bentley is a cut above the rest, the Mulsanne Speed is distinguished on the outside by a dark tint finish to many of the exterior components including the grille and 21-inch 'directional style' wheels, which are a first for Bentley.
Just a pity it still looks like an old London bus from the front.


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Home/Children & Young Adults/Around the World in Eighty Days: The Extraordinary Journeys
Jules Verne, William Butcher (TRN)
Around the World in Eighty Days: The Extraordinary Journeys
Having assured the members of London's exclusive Reform Club that he will circumnavigate the world in 80 days, Fogg - stiff, repressed, English - starts by joining forces with an irrepressible Frenchman, Passepartout, and then with a ravishing Indian beauty, Aouda. Together they slice through jungles, over snowbound passes, even across an entire isthmus - only to get back five minutes late. Fogg faces despair and suicide, but Aouda makes a new man of him, able to face even the Reform Club again.
Around the World in Eighty Days (1872) contains a strong dose of post-Romantic reality plus extensive borrowing from the author's own Journey to England and Scotland - but not a shred of science fiction. Its modernism lies instead in the experimental literary technique, with parallel plots, a narrator constantly made to look foolish, four characters in search of their own unconscious, and a unique twisting of space and time. Verne's classic, a bestseller for over a century, has never appeared in a critical edition before.
William Butcher's stylish new translation moves as fast and as brilliantly as Fogg's own journey.


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Novel genotypes of hepatitis C virus in Thailand
K. Sugiyama, Nobuyuki Kato, T. Nakazawa, Y. Yonemura, K. Phornphutkul, M. Kunakorn, B. Petchclai, K. Shimotohno
We examined 24 C-type hepatitis specimens from Thailand and detected hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA in all of them by RT-nested PCR for a portion of the HCV 5' non-coding (5' NC) region and a portion of the HCV core region. However, we failed to detect HCV RNA in 11 specimens by RT-nested PCR for a portion in the non-structural protein 5 (NS5) region that has been used commonly for HCV genotyping. We designed a new primer set for a separate portion of the NS5 region. Using this primer set, we succeeded in amplifying this portion in all 24 specimens. Two novel HCV genotypes, tentatively designated HCV-VII and HCV-VIII, were identified by sequencing these amplified regions. Our newly designed primers for RT-nested PCR may be useful for diagnosing infection as well as for genotyping unidentified HCV genomes.
Hepacivirus
Sugiyama, K., Kato, N., Nakazawa, T., Yonemura, Y., Phornphutkul, K., Kunakorn, M., ... Shimotohno, K. (1995). Novel genotypes of hepatitis C virus in Thailand. Journal of General Virology, 76(9), 2323-2327.
Novel genotypes of hepatitis C virus in Thailand. / Sugiyama, K.; Kato, Nobuyuki; Nakazawa, T.; Yonemura, Y.; Phornphutkul, K.; Kunakorn, M.; Petchclai, B.; Shimotohno, K.
In: Journal of General Virology, Vol. 76, No. 9, 1995, p. 2323-2327.
Sugiyama, K, Kato, N, Nakazawa, T, Yonemura, Y, Phornphutkul, K, Kunakorn, M, Petchclai, B & Shimotohno, K 1995, 'Novel genotypes of hepatitis C virus in Thailand', Journal of General Virology, vol. 76, no. 9, pp. 2323-2327.
Sugiyama K, Kato N, Nakazawa T, Yonemura Y, Phornphutkul K, Kunakorn M et al. Novel genotypes of hepatitis C virus in Thailand. Journal of General Virology. 1995;76(9):2323-2327.
Sugiyama, K. ; Kato, Nobuyuki ; Nakazawa, T. ; Yonemura, Y. ; Phornphutkul, K. ; Kunakorn, M. ; Petchclai, B. ; Shimotohno, K. / Novel genotypes of hepatitis C virus in Thailand. In: Journal of General Virology. 1995 ; Vol. 76, No. 9. pp. 2323-2327.
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Artem Bobukh (; born 4 December 1988) is a Ukrainian former football defender.

Career
Bobukh began playing professional football with FC Volyn Lutsk's team. He would next spend 1.5 years with its club. Last time, 19 September 2010, he signed a contract with Metalist Kharkiv in the Ukrainian Premier League.

References

External links

1988 births
Living people
Ukrainian footballers
Association football defenders
Ukrainian expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in Belarus
Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Belarus
Ukrainian Premier League players
FC Metalist Kharkiv players
FC Volyn Lutsk players
FC Feniks-Illichovets Kalinine players
FC Obolon-Brovar Kyiv players
FC Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih players
FC Belshina Bobruisk players
FC Slutsk players
Sportspeople from Sumy

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Katrina, 9/11, Global Recession: Moving Beyond Old Thinking about New Risks
Disasters just aren't what they used to be, according to experts at a recent Wharton risk management conference titled, "The Irrational Economist." Indeed, they are a lot worse. With costs adjusted for inflation, all of the 20 most-costly disasters from 1970 through 2007 occurred after 1987, and half came after 2001. One speaker predicted "an accelerating rhythm of large-scale catastrophes" such as financial crises, problems with food and energy, disease pandemics, terrorism and natural disasters.
Howard Kunreuther
Mark Pauly
The 9/11 terrorist attacks, Hurricane Katrina and the recent financial collapse: These and other recent catastrophes are a wakeup call for the need to better prepare for natural and man-made disasters that have wider effects as the world grows more interconnected.
But do we have the planning tools we need?
Perhaps not, some experts in risk analysis warn. And even if experts could develop better statistical tools, there are human tendencies to be overcome, like the habit of downplaying some risks and overreacting to others. Reason becomes clouded when people assess emotion-laden events like terrorist attacks, making public-policy decisions on risk very difficult, according to participants in a recent Wharton conference titled, "The Irrational Economist."
One hundred leading scholars — including Nobel Laureates — in the fields of decision sciences, economics of information, political economy, catastrophic risk management and insurance gathered for the December conference, which was organized by Erwann O. Michel-Kerjan, managing director of the Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center, and Paul Slovic, professor of decision research at the University of Oregon.
The conference had several goals. One was to recognize the contributions made to these fields by Howard Kunreuther, Wharton professor of decision sciences and public policy, during nearly four decades of research – and to note the occasion of Kunreuther's 70th birthday. In addition, the conference was intended to bring together leading scholars to exchange ideas and cross multiple perspectives on some of today's most pressing issues, and to lay the groundwork for future multidisciplinary research over the next decade. A book, titled The Irrational Economist: Making Decisions in a Dangerous World, distilling the knowledge of these scholars, will be published in early 2010.
Kunreuther says he found the conference gratifying. "The two days interacting with good friends, family and colleagues were very special and ones I will always remember," he says. "Thanks to the contributions of so many people, the conference provided a broader perspective on ways to increase our understanding of human behavior with an eye to developing policies and programs for improving individual and social welfare. From my perspective, what more could one ask for?"
When people think about risk, they tend to dwell on ones experienced in the past rather than new types likely to surface in the future, said Michel-Kerjan. "We are always surprised. We try to fight the last war over and over again." He was part of a conference panel titled, "Managing and Financing Extreme Events II: Dealing with a New Era."
Traditional risk assessment, like that used by insurers, gauges the probability and likely cost of an event by assessing historical data. Insurers know from experience, for example, that an 18-year-old driver is more likely to have a serious accident than a 40-year-old, so the teenager's premium is higher.
But a number of factors make this type of calculation less reliable in assessing the kinds of catastrophic events that have struck in recent years. Terrorist attacks on the scale of 9/11 are too rare to establish a statistical probability. And although there are many statistics on natural events like hurricanes, the old numbers may be less reliable if global warming is making hurricanes more frequent and severe. Rapid population growth in coastal areas adds to the challenge of assessing future costs.
Michel-Kerjan predicts "an accelerating rhythm of large-scale catastrophes" such as financial crises, problems with food and energy, disease pandemics, terrorism and natural disasters. With costs adjusted for inflation, all of the 20 most-costly disasters from 1970 through 2007 occurred after 1987, and half of them came after 2001.
In a paper titled, "Toward a New Risk Architecture: Welcome to Risk Management 2.0," Michel-Kerjan writes: "There will be more of these [disasters] as well as brand new ones in the future. This poses a real challenge: Dealing with an average of one or two such catastrophes every 20 years is one thing; dealing with 10 or 15 on many different fronts, as is currently occurring, is a whole different game."
China's Quakes Rattle Wal-Mart
A further problem: the world's growing interconnectedness. "An earthquake in China is not just a Chinese issue any more, it's a Wal-Mart issue," Michel-Kerjan said during the panel.
The financial markets have tied countries together in ways that are not fully understood. The current financial crisis began with a small slice of the home mortgage market in the U.S. and evolved into a worldwide recession. Indeed, the global trade in securities backed by American mortgages and other forms of debt helped spread the contagion, while many experts had expected the opposite — that these securities would dampen financial shocks by diluting risk.
"Conventional thinking holds that risks are mainly local and routine; that it is possible to list all untoward events that could happen, determine their probability based on past experience, measure the costs and benefits of specific risk protection measures and implement these measures for each risk," Michel-Kerjan writes in his paper, which was presented at the conference. "Many organizations and governments are making decisions using risk and crisis management tools based on these outdated assumptions."
People can better prepare by recognizing that risks are more common and more serious than previously thought. But it is hard to know what the best preparation is, since overreaction can be a problem, too. "Panic and passivity are the opposite ends of a spectrum. Each is unwelcome," Harvard professors Cass R. Sunstein and Richard Zeckhauser, write in their paper titled, "Overreaction to Fearsome Risks," also presented in the panel discussion.
The risks that trigger the strongest responses tend to have extremely low probabilities of occurring, the authors said. Overreaction can lead to excessive spending on remedies, too much anxiety or resorting to counterproductive choices — like keeping the children indoors so they won't be hit by meteors.
Overreaction is generally caused by a fixation on the possible event while ignoring the fact it is unlikely, a process called "probability neglect." For example, after a terrorist attack, the public is likely to demand a government response. But excessive airport security may cause more people to drive, leading to more fatalities than if those people traveled on commercial air carriers, which are safer. "The monies spent in recent years on [airport] security seem out of scale with the level of risk reduction produced, particularly since numerous tests have found that the screening routinely fails to find weapons," the authors write.
The Gruesome Factor
To study probability neglect, the authors asked a large sample of law students how much they would pay to reduce the risk of drinking water containing arsenic. The students were randomly divided into four groups. In the first, students were told their risk of getting cancer from the water was one in one million, while the second group was told it was one in 100,000. The third group also faced a one in one million risk, but the cancer was described as "very gruesome and intensely painful, as the cancer eats away at the internal organs of the body." The fourth group faced a one in 100,000 risk and also received the graphic description. The study showed that adding the emotional element dramatically increased the amount students would pay to avoid the cancer, even though the graphic statement actually did nothing to increase their risk. Fear made the students ignore probabilities.
Indeed, the study showed that students would pay more to avoid the one in one million risk that was graphically described than to avoid a one in 100,000 risk that was not, even though the one in 100,000 risk is 10 times more likely, said Zeckhauser, who took part in the conference panel. "People are just mesmerized confronting a fearsome risk."
Turning to a real-life example, Sunstein and Zeckhauser note in their paper that the anthrax scare in the U.S. in October 2001 caused only four deaths and a dozen illnesses, but triggered an enormous government response. "We have suggested that when risks are vivid, people are likely to be insensitive to the probability of harm, particularly when their emotions are activated," they write.
Irrational about Insurance
The insurance industry has long profited from customers' irrational behavior. In his paper titled, "Half Full or Half Empty? Economic and Behavioral Explanations for Insurance Demand," Mark V. Pauly, professor of insurance and risk management at Wharton and a conference panelist, described consumers' tendency to buy insurance policies with low deductibles and high premiums even though it is more economical to do the opposite — buy policies with high deductibles and lower premiums. If the event being insured against is unlikely to take place, the policy holder will probably never pay the large deductible, but will certainly benefit by paying a low premium. Studies have shown that even wealthy people who could easily pay large deductibles tend to prefer low-deductible policies.
It is unclear why people behave this way, Pauly said. It is possible they place a high value on peace of mind, freedom from the kind of regret they might feel if they did someday have to pay a large deductible. It also is possible that people are looking for a rough way to factor in other losses associated with the event that cannot be insured against directly. By avoiding the high deductible, the policy holder is paid more when a claim is filed, helping to offset some other loss.
A typical example is the high-cost rental car insurance many people buy even when their own auto policies cover rental-car accidents, according to Pauly. A customer might buy the rental insurance for non-financial reasons. "The main reason why I took the rental car insurance is because if anything happens, I don't want to have to explain it to my wife," he joked.
The incompletely understood behavior of individuals addressing risk is reflected in the public-policy realm, he said, since politicians share those tendencies, or must satisfy constituents who may react irrationally in the face of risk.
If risk assessment is behind the times, or still struggling to understand human behavior, new approaches are needed. While no one has yet devised an ideal system for addressing new types of risk, Michel-Kerjan offered conference participants six points to consider.
Extreme costs and extreme benefits: Disasters will cost much more than they have in the past, making effective methods of addressing them ever more beneficial. In the U.S., 1989's Hurricane Hugo was the first catastrophe to cost more than $1 billion, while Hurricane Katrina just 16 years later probably cost more than $150 billion. The population of hurricane-prone Florida was 2.8 million in 1950. It is expected to exceed 19 million in 2010.
Confusion over public- and private-sector roles in catastrophes: Most people assume government is responsible for handling crises, but many key services that keep the country running, such as power and transportation, are private. "We must look at how private actions affect public vulnerability so that we are better prepared."
Growing interdependence and globalization: In 2003, a problem in an Ohio utility caused a power failure throughout much of the northeastern U.S. and parts of Canada. Similarly, the near collapse of American International Group, the mammoth insurer, was caused by a relatively tiny unit in London.
Change in scale: Greater independencies and other changes mean individual disasters will affect more people. "Dealing with large-scale disasters is much more challenging than dealing with a series of local small accidents."
Celerity: Rapid transportation and cheap communication allow people and products to move much faster, speeding the spread of contagions like diseases and financial reversals.
Uncertainty: As disasters become bigger and more widespread, it becomes more important to make decisions quickly, often before a situation is fully understood. "We were trained to solve problems with clear questions and clear scientific knowledge," he writes in his paper, arguing that this traditional approach won't be good enough in the future.
"As the world is becoming more of a small interdependent village, crises that you decide to ignore because they are 5,000 miles away…will certainly have second-order effects on you, very soon. Given this, we might reflect on an irony: Being selfish today means taking care of others."


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快播regarding the fact that the dragon soul of the ancestor was sealed in the nine blood-staining beads, the dragon palace actually didn't know many people. the east china sea line had always kept this secret, and even the other three sea dragon kings didn't know it.变态
快播ao zhong once asked his father, wang ao guang, why not use this ray of dragon soul to help the ancestor reincarnate in his home?变态快播the answer given by ao guang at the time was very vague. he only said that the ancestor actually died under the xuanyuan sword, and now he is reincarnated and resurrected, which may not be a good thing for the east china sea or the dragon clan.
变态快播ao zhong guessed at the time whether the ancestors rebelled and were eventually killed by the yellow emperor with the xuanyuan sword, so that the status of their sihailong clan in the human and immortal realms was not too high.
快播however, looking at it now, the reason why ao guang was reluctant to resurrect the ancestor back then was probably because he knew that if the ancestor wanted to reincarnate, he would definitely choose the descendant with the purest blood, once the third prince ao bing, and later the ninth prince. ao hong.变态ao zhong guessed at the time whether the ancestors rebelled and were eventually killed by the yellow emperor with the xuanyuan sword, so that the status of their sihailong clan in the human and immortal realms was not too high.
快播变态however, looking at it now, the reason why ao guang was reluctant to resurrect the ancestor back then was probably because he knew that if the ancestor wanted to reincarnate, he would definitely choose the descendant with the purest blood, once the third prince ao bing, and later the ninth prince. ao hong.
快播变态it's just that right now, he can't do anything, he can only watch ao hong be taken away from him.
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he hurriedly looked inwardly, and saw that in the sky dome of the sea space, dark clouds were rolling, lightning and thunder, two golden light beams obliquely penetrating down from above, reflecting towards him.
regarding the fact that the dragon soul of the ancestor was sealed in the nine blood-staining beads, the dragon palace actually didn't know many people. the east china sea line had always kept this secret, and even the other three sea dragon kings didn't know it.
"i..." ao zhong was bitter in his heart and had to shut up. .
it's just that right now, he can't do anything, he can only watch ao hong be taken away from him.
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the son of a wealthy businessman who had been weak and sick from a young age, unexpectedly embarked on the road of cultivating immortals and reaching the sky when he was seeking a way to continue his life! in the prosperous period of the tang dynasty, the world was peaceful, the weather was smooth and the people lived in peace. thousands of years later, demons swallowed the sky, demons were rampant, wailing everywhere. journey to the west reappears, the great sage fights the sky, the canopy descends, and the rolling curtain is reborn. the inexplicable shuttle and reincarnation, the illusion and the reality are hidden, the real and the illusion are intertwined! is it the dream in the prophecy? or is it a reality that hasn't happened yet? can he break the destined demon barrier, eliminate the triumph of the three realms that has not yet occurred, and save the common people from the water and fire?


User experience is an all-encompassing field with so many different sub-categories that feed into it. The main goal is to create a design that is universally accessible, but there are many obstacles that arise during product design. The following list of videos explain the concept of UX, and introduce useful tips on how to overcome common design challenges in order to successfully design an accessible UX for your product. You can use them to explain your job and hobby, or simply to go back to basics.
This video discusses a very important issue within the UX world today. Although there are universal design standards and guidelines, many designs are still lacking in areas such as content order or link placement. According to this video, it is due to a lack of education in the various production teams, where the members aren't aware of how to create a fully accessible design.
Ever wonder where the term "user experience" originated from? Find out all about how UX began, and the basics of the concept that grew into the UX we know today. This video goes over some fundamental concepts that are necessary when designing UX, from simply making things easier for your customers, to what type of structure is considered appealing, these basics are important for every professional to review once and a while.
In this interesting video, the importance of incorporating accessible design is stressed as the key to a successful UX. Specifically working with people with disabilities in order to properly understand which areas they struggle in, will create a better understanding of what is lacking in a design. By implementing proper representation for all types of people by using focus groups, usability testing and more, you can make sure that your design is accessible to everyone.
Janne Jul Jenson talks about the "how" of what makes good usability for a user interface. She lists 10 key guidelines that include all the essentials in designing a successful UI for your product. She stresses the importance of a simple and natural mindset, from design to language in order to appeal to the customer, and make sure they feel like they are able to navigate your UI.
Watch and learn about how the process of user experience and user interface design unfolds within a company. This video provides helpful guidelines on how to provide a power interface, stressing the importance of thinking from the user's point of view and forgetting your own. User experience is successfully exemplified with these 40 helpful design examples.


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Q: Gorm Timestamps in Golang type Base struct {
    ID          uint            `gorm:"primary_key" json:"id"`
    CreatedAt   time.Time       `json:"created_at"`
    UpdatedAt   time.Time       `json:"updated_at"`
    DeletedAt   *gorm.DeletedAt `sql:"index" json:"deleted_at" swaggertype:"primitive,string"`
    CreatedByID uint            `gorm:"column:created_by_id" json:"created_by_id"`
    UpdatedByID uint            `gorm:"column:updated_by_id" json:"updated_by_id"`
}

If I pass some values to created_at and updated_at it is taking up the current time as a default value and not taking up the value that I have passed. Is there any way I can make the gorm take up the values that I have passed.

A: Three ways

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*Define default tag for field with a database function to fill in the default. e.g. for MySQL database current_timestamp() can be used

     CreatedAt time.Time `gorm:"default:CURRENT_TIMESTAMP()"`

*Assign default values as suggested by @Guolei.

*Embed gorm.Model in your struct instead, for automatic handling of ID, CreatedAt, UpdatedAt and DeletedAt.

A: if containing fileds: CreatedAt and UpdatedAt, gorm will use reflect to insert default value when executing.
also you could give the specific value.
info := Example{
    CreatedAt: time.Now(),
    UpdatedAt: time.Now(),
}
_, err := DB.Insert(info)

A: An update to @s3vt's answer:
If you the first method they provided, you need to put the function without the parenthesis like this:
CreatedAt time.Time `gorm:"default:current_timestamp"`

I spent a lot of time trying to figure out the error I was getting so I thought I'd share it for the people who might face this!

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Fender Provides Tour Support With Accelerator
FULLERTON CA (CelebrityAccess) — The costs of road life for touring bands can get unwieldy, unanticipated expenses can impact artists' profits. Richard McDonald, executive vp of Fender Brand, is all-too-keenly aware of such hazards, having spent 19 years as a touring guitarist for world-music group Morningstar.
"There's nothing like being broken down on the side of a highway in some P.O.S. vehicle in the middle of Minnesota, and you don't know if you're gonna make the next gig," says McDonald. "It just feels so good to have a shiny, safe vehicle with safety in mind, so you can get to the next gig."
Bearing this need in mind, Fender has introduced its first Fender Accelerator Tour, which will provide paid tour support for rising bands: a 15-passenger van, promotional and marketing support, and Fender gear including electric and acoustic guitars, basses, amps and other accessories. Participating bands include Night Terrors of 1927, Priory, Matthew Curry, Marmozets, Deap Vally and Waters on their respective current tours, running this week and extending through June.
Fender is not alone in its patron-like support of indie bands. Over the last four years, companies like Converse, Mountain Dew, Sour Patch Kids, Intel and Red Bull have all offered free recording, touring, lodging and performance resources to rising and unsigned bands with minimal strings attached in terms of content restrictions or owning the bands` recording rights. Indie-rock acts tend to attract a younger, digitally savvy fanbase, which can in turn lend credibility to brands who can reach them at a fraction of the cost they would otherwise spend on a multi-million dollar TV campaign.
The Fender Accelerator Tour was created in partnership with CAA Marketing and production partner NCompass, with digital content sourced by participating artists expected to roll out over the next three months. "Is there any brand in the world better suited to support emerging artists and help them get the most out of their tours?" CAA Marketing's Marshall Eskowitz says. "This brand is already part of the musical journey of the artist. Fender just wants to amplify and accelerate that journey."
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University of Mexico's Carlos Gershenson: Computers Are Telescopes With Which We Study Complex Systems
Bird migration, cell function, and human behavior: these are all systems that humans can analyze. By predicting and understanding systems, we have found cures to infections and created computers. But what can we do about truly complex systems that depend on hundreds of variables, such as cancer tumors? On March 26, Carlos Gershenson, a researcher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), spoke about these matters to the students of ITMO University. ITMO.NEWS provides key highlights from Prof. Gershenson's lecture "Computers as Telescopes for Complex Systems".
Carlos Gershenson
The word "complexity" comes from the Latin "complexionem", which may be translated as "interconnected" or "tangled"; it refers, thus, to the interwovenness of various elements. Even more, there are important relations established between them. Take the atoms of carbon, as an example. Depending on their position relative to each other, they present different properties and form different objects. A diamond and a piece of chalk contain the same atoms, just differently structured.
These microscopic properties are the product of a process called immersion. The characteristics of immersion seem enigmatic to many, and that is because the information produced by the interaction of elements cannot be found in these elements.
Imagine you have a childhood friend named Pasha. You know everything about him: his favorite food, favorite music, his habits. All in all, you can almost perfectly predict his behavior in any situation. But then Pasha goes to study at ITMO University where he meets and falls in love with Masha. And now we see his behavior change. All of a sudden he begins to take better care of himself. The only way to understand the new Pasha is to take into account his newfound relationship.
Years later, the couple has a child named Sasha. Their interactions with the child do not only generate new information about them, but also change the nature of the parents' relationship.
Information, a very important consequence of an interaction, is not available immediately. In school, we learn from physics that by knowing the initial state of a system, we can predict its future. In the case of complex system, our ability to predict the future is severely limited; after all, we know nothing about the future interactions that are likely to affect the system.
The principle of reductionism
Science has traditionally adhered to the principle of reductionism: scientists would simplify phenomena in order to be able to predict them in the future. And that approach was successful: we built computers and found cures for many illnesses. As some researchers claim, humanity has already passed its epistemological period; nowadays, people die more often because of chronic illnesses. Unlike infectious diseases, chronic ones are more complex and multifactored. We still haven't found a cure for flu, AIDS, cancer, diabetes, or heart disease.
And we can't do that precisely because the reductionist method is useless in these cases: the systems are too complex and cannot be simplified due to the variety of factors and constants. For a while now, medical specialists have been promoting the concept of personalized medicine, wherein patients are thoroughly examined and given a selection of specific drugs instead of one common drug for all.
To understand the influence of complex systems analysis on modern science, we need only recall how research was done before. Scientists aimed to establish the laws of a phenomena and predict future. It's almost like Laplace's demon: with a high enough level of intelligence, we'd be able to predict the entire past and future of the universe.
But that just won't happen. Firstly, because of thermodynamics. We know that even with a large amount of information, we'd not be able to travel into the past because of the dissipation of energy. Many varied states all lead to one state. For instance, a group of people are present in this room, but being here does not define how we came here: by foot, on a bicycle, or by car.
It is the same with understanding complex systems: their components have all experienced a different past. According to the laws of thermodynamics, information is lost with time, and with it our ability to learn the past.
Why study complex systems now?
Our ancestors surely understood the complexity of processes and the importance of multifactority. For instance, Charles Darwin wrote in his On the Origin of Species that he was astounded by the complexity of a single ecosystem and the different species' interactions with each other. But back then people did not have the necessary tools for in-depth analysis.
In the late '80s computers changed everything: they became our telescopes with which we studied complex systems. How did we study space before the telescope? It was impossible to see past the moon. It was Galileo Galilei who managed to see the moons of Jupiter with his primitive telescope. After that, our study of space has expanded far beyond our own limits of perception. Less than a century ago telescopes became powerful enough to let us learn of the existence of other galaxies.
It's the same with computers. Before, we simply did not have the means to study processes with hundreds of thousands of variables. We could use math to solve differential equations, but the more variables they contain, the more difficult it is.
Computers give us the ability to understand how various interactions lead to various behaviors. Their computational capacity can handle complex systems with a million components. One program, Golly, lets users build a cellular automata, which is a grid filled with living or dead cells. As they interact with each other within the grid, they change. That's why they also call it the Game of Life.
Since we cannot predict the past or future of complex systems, we must approach them differently. Perhaps in the future we would create an adaptive system that will take into account if not all, but many possibilities.
UK Professor Talks Complex Systems, Game Theory, and Big Data
ITMO University's National Center for Cognitive Technologies Holds its First Session


On the Engineers Ireland website, a search for 'infrasound' or 'low-frequency noise' yields zero results. A search on 'noise', however, yields 44 results. Why is it that infrasound and low frequency noise (ILFN) is still such a taboo subject? While it is improbable that this particular question will be answered here, an exposé of ILFN will be provided with a brief historical account of how and why ILFN was ultimately deemed irrelevant for human health concerns.
Vibration: implies a solid-to-solid transmission of energy.
In the early part of the 20th century, Harvey Fletcher of the Western Electrics Laboratories of AT&T, was tasked with improving the quality of reception in the telephone. To generate the sounds in a telephone earpiece, he used an AC voltage and had some of his colleagues rate the loudness of the sound received compared to the quietest tone heard.
The company was already using a logarithmic scale to describe the power in an electrical cable and it made sense to rate the loudness of the sounds also on a logarithmic scale related to the quietest voltage that could just be heard.
Initially he called this metric a 'sensation unit' but later, to commemorate their founder Alexander Graham Bell, they renamed it the 'Bel'. A tenth of a Bel became known as the deciBel, corrupted to decibel, which has stuck with the scientific community to this day.
To address the problem of industrial noise in the early 20th century, measurement was essential, as was a metric. At that time, researchers were critically aware that the readings on a sound level meter did not represent how loud or intense the sound was with respect to the subject's perception of hearing.
From a biomedical perspective, this concept of perception is subjective, and changes between individuals and over timescales from minutes to decades. These serious constraints notwithstanding, it was acknowledged that some average measure of loudness would have some value for medicine and public health.
Harvey continued his research with Wilden Munsen, one of his team, by varying the frequency of the electricity to give pure tones, to which it is understood 23 of his colleagues listened to different levels of loudness, again through a simple telephone earpiece. (It is assumed they all had good hearing). They were then asked to score the sounds for equal loudness to that generated by an alternating current at 1000 cycles per second.
The level of the sound of course depended on the voltage applied, which could be measured. It is important to note two significant constraints here: The sounds were 'pure' sine waves, which are not common in nature, and the headphones enclosed the ear of the subject. This is a very unnatural way to listen to a very unnatural sound.
The numerical results of this study are known as the Fletcher-Munsen Curves (Fig 1). The (logarithmic) units of these curves are known as 'phons' and the inverse of the 40 phon curve forms the basis of the A-frequency weighting scale used everywhere today (Fig 2).
The minimum pressure required for humans to perceive sound at 1000 Hz is considered to be 20 micropascal, or an intensity of 10-12 watts per square meter. This corresponds to 0 phon on Figure 1, and 0 dBA in Figure 2. For all its shortcomings, the A-weighting has endured for decades and has become the de facto standard for environmental noise measurement. But is the A-weighting sufficient for all circumstances?
The answer is an emphatic 'No'. It relates to the perception of loudness, which heavily discounts all frequencies below 1000 Hz and ends at 20 Hz. This 20-Hz limit was a consequence of equipment limitations of the 1920s and 30s, but has remained as the lower limit of human hearing to this day. The assumption that harm from excessive noise exposure is directly related to the perception of loudness has also remained to this day.
Observe in Fig 2 that, at 10 Hz, there is a 70-dB difference between what is measured and what is, de facto, present in the environment. In other words, three-and-a-half orders of magnitude of energy are discounted at this frequency.
The implications for public health are considerable, and within this line of reasoning, any event below 20 Hz becomes of no consequence whatsoever – and more so because it is not implicated in the classical effects of excessive noise exposure: hearing loss.
There are also issues of time and frequency resolution. Acoustic phenomena are time-varying events. A 10-minute average of acoustic events can hide more than it reveals. Similarly, segmenting frequencies into octave or 1/3-octave bands for analysis can also hide much that needs to be seen.
Today, affordable and highly portable equipment can record acoustical environments, and allow for post-analysis in sub-second time increments and 1/36-octave resolution. Waveform analysis from the sound file directly can achieve an even better resolution.
The following results, recently obtained in field-studies conducted in Ireland (July-November 2017), show why such resolution is needed to understand ILFN-rich environments. The classical metric (in dBA, 10-min averages and 1/3-octave bands) will be contrasted with what is needed for human health-related concerns (in dB with no frequency weighting, and resolutions of 0.2s and 1/36-octave bands), and not merely compliance with regulations.
Acoustical environments were recorded with a SAM Scribe FS recording system, a 2-channel recorder with sampling rates up to 44.1 kHz at 16-bit resolution and linear response down to almost 0.1 Hz [4-6]. Recordings were saved as uncompressed WAV files including the 1000 Hz/94 dB reference calibration tone prior to and after measurements. Windshields were placed on both microphones during the entire measurement sessions. Microphones were attached to tripods at approximately 1.5 m above the ground.
Five homes located around the same industrial wind turbine (IWT) development have been the object of study. The data presented here refers to Home 1 (Fig 3). Table 1 shows the dates and times of all recordings that have been made to date in this home. The recordings selected for analysis and presentation herein were chosen on their educational value.
The information classically obtained with the dBA metric, 1/3-octave bands and 10-min averaging (on 10 October, 2017, at 18:30) is given in Figs 4 and 5. Weather conditions obtained from Met Éireann for the closest weather tower at this time were as follows: air temperature: 14°C, precipitation: 0.1 mm, mean sea-level pressure: 1006.0 hPa, wind speed: 5.1 m/s (10 kt), wind direction: southwest (200° az).
The values obtained for the sound pressure level and 1/3-octave bands are seen in Figs 4 and 5. The overall dBA metric (red bars labelled 'Tot') reflects the sound that humans would hear if they were present in this environment.
The sound pressure level in dBLin metric (grey bars labelled 'Tot') reflect the amount of acoustic energy to which humans are concomitantly exposed. The growing discrepancy between the two can be seen as the frequency falls below 1000 Hz.
Figure 6 shows the sonogram corresponding to the same 10-min period. This visual representation of time- and frequency-varying acoustic events provides much more information than the classical approach (Figs 4 and 5).
Here, short-term events can be seen in the region of 20-50 Hz (Fig 6). Tonal components can be seen at 10 Hz and 20 Hz that are not steady in amplitude and may be amplitude modulated, i.e., where the amplitude of the pressure is not continuous and varies periodically with time. The 10-minute averages, used in almost all legislation, hide these variations and are representative only of tonal components that are essentially unvarying over the 10-minute period in question.
The periodogram (Fig 7) over the same 10 minutes shows that there are distinct tonal components that form a harmonic series. When IWTs are the source of ILFN, the rotating blades generate repeated pressure waves as each blade replaces the previous one at any position.
A harmonic series is formed with the 'blade pass frequency' as the fundamental frequency (0.8 Hz here). These harmonics constitute what is called the wind turbine signature , which is impossible to identify using the classical dBA, 1/3-octave, 10-minute averaging methodology.
Health concerns associated with excessive exposure to ILFN in the workplace have been around since the industrial boom in the 1960s . In recent years, however, residential neighbourhoods have also begun to be flooded with ILFN [9-14]. The family living in Home 1, for example, has abandoned their residence due to severe health deterioration in all family members.
Accredited acousticians cannot ascertain compliance levels for ILFN because there are none – the vast majority of regulations worldwide do not cover this part of the acoustic spectrum. Nevertheless, public health officials and agencies should fulfil their job descriptions by becoming aware of the limitations of current noise guidelines and regulations.
Alternatives exist to gather the acoustic information relevant to the protection of human populations, in both occupational and residential settings. Noise regulations and guidelines need urgent updating in order to appropriately reflect ILFN levels that are dangerous to human health.
Fig 4: Data covers a 10-minute interval analysed between 0.5-4000 Hz, in 1/3-octave bands, as recorded in Home 1, on 10 October 2017, at 18:30 (red microphone, i.e. inside child's bedroom-2).
The red bars are A-weighted values, while the gray bars indicate the acoustic energy that is, de facto present, in dBLin. In this environment, the human being would perceive through the ear an overall A-weighted pressure-level of approximately 34 dBA (Tot – red bar), while being concomitantly exposed to an overall acoustic pressure-level of approximately 74 dBLin (Tot – grey bar).
Fig 5: Data covers a 10-minute interval analysed between 0.5-1000 Hz, in 1/3-octave bands, as recorded in Home 1, on 10 October 2017, at 18:30 (red microphone, i.e. inside child's bedroom-2).
The red bars are A-weighted values, while the gray bars indicate the acoustic energy that is, de facto present, in dBLin. In this environment, the human being would perceive through the ear an overall A-weighted pressure-level of approximately 26 dBA (Tot – red bar), while being simultaneously exposed to an overall acoustic pressure-level of approximately 74 dBLin (Tot – grey bar).
Fig 6: Sonogram that covers the same 10-minute interval (600 s) as in Figs 4 and 5 showing time-varying features.
The colour-coded bar on the right indicates sound pressure level values in dB Linear (no weighting). The horizontal line seen at 20 Hz is not a continuous tone because over the 600 s, its pressure level (colour-coded data) varies. A strong (yellow) acoustic phenomenon can be seen to exist at 1.6 Hz and also at 0.8 Hz.
Fig 7: Periodogram covering the same 10-minute interval (600 s) as in Figs 4-6, and analyzed between 0.5-1250 Hz.
The blade pass frequency of the IWT is 0.8 Hz. Harmonics of this fundamental frequency are shown in the figure. Each frequency band composing the harmonic series has a well-defined peak, e.g., the horizontal line seen in Fig 7 at 20 Hz is represented here as a peak at 20 Hz.
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A good fishing pole can go from being your best pole to junk in a matter of seconds. If you are like me, you do not fish with bad equipment so a broken fishing pole can be a hit to the pocket book and diplomatic relations at home... another wasted purchase in the eyes of your significant other.
Do not fret if you find yourself in this position. I have broken a couple rods in my day and have fixed each one so that they were like brand new. All you need to do is purchase a rod repair kit and you are ready to repair that pole.
When it comes to repairing a broken fishing pole, all cases are different but most can be solved using two methods. If the rod breaks half way down the pole, you can use the old rod tip and simply glue the pieces back together. If the rod breaks right below the tip of the rod, you will have to replace the rod tip with one out of the kit you purchased.
My first example is a rod that I dropped my spare tire on. The rod broke in the upper 3 quarters. I utilized the first method of simply gluing the rod back together. I actually didn't mind that the rod broke because it was a little long for what I was using it for. The rod went from being a 7 footer to a 5 foot 8 inch model... perfect for vertical jigging.
As you can see, the rod broke in the upper 3/4. The upper portion was still good. It just needed to be inserted into the lower portion.
I had to cut the rod so the top piece would slide into the bottom. Make the cut with a hand-saw. When making the cut, try to make it as straight as possible.
Heat the cement stick to get it ready to apply to the rod.
The portion of the rod from the eye down was going to be inserted into the lower part so I covered it all with cement.
Insert the upper portion of the rod into the lower portion.
Slide the upper portion of the rod as far down as it will go making sure all the eyes are lined up. Remove the cement that accumulates the next day.


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Planning Applications In 1991, the Ministry of Defence declared Farnborough surplus to its requirements. The change concentrated military aviation research and development at Bedford and Boscombe Down, with test flying also taking place at Boscombe. In conjunction with the Department of Trade and Industry and the Department of Transport, the Ministry of Defence drew up a strategy for disposal of its landholdings at Farnborough. A tranche of land was released to BAE Systems for the Farnborough Aerospace Centre. Part of the site was retained by DERA, now QinetiQ for a variety of scientific research and development activities. The former Factory site is now occupied by Slough Estates, which is developing the Farnborough Business Park, a site that will ultimately accommodate nearly two million square foot of office space. The Government wished to keep the operational areas of the Farnborough airfield in aviation use. In the late 1980s, it had realised that the lack of space in the South East for business aviation could have serious impacts on the regional economy. Farnborough was therefore earmarked as a site suitable as a business aviation airport. A small civil operation commenced in 1989 and the Ministry of Defence then drew up a development brief for a complete conversion of the site to business operations. In 1997, the MoD commenced the marketing of the site for this purpose as, by that time, the Rushmoor's Local Plan incorporated draft policies for the future of the aerodrome. In February 1998, TAG was confirmed by the Government as the future operator of the site. In October 2000, TAG was granted planning permission for the use of the site for business aviation, for works needed to bring the site up to Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) standards and, in principle, for the new air traffic control tower, hangars and terminal building. Rushmoor Borough Council, subject to a number of conditions, granted permission for the redevelopment of Farnborough Airport, into a civil licensed dedicated business airport. The conditions were the subject of a Town and Country Planning Act Section 106/299A agreement signed by both parties. One of the stipulations of this agreement was the submission and agreement with Rushmoor of preferred noise routes, and the enforcement of such routes. TAG has therefore implemented and published Noise Abatement Procedures that include preferred noise routes for aircraft arriving and departing the airport, a complaints handling procedure, and a mechanism for addressing unauthorised failures to comply with the noise abatement procedures. As a part of the planning permission, a number of environmental controls were also established at the Airport. These came into effect on January 1 2003 when the CAA licence was granted. One of the environmental requirements is the preparation of quarterly and annual monitoring reports. The annual report summarises environmental performance over the previous year. It sits alongside quarterly reports that monitor noise and air quality criteria and provides an opportunity to report more widely on the performance of the airport. In February 2004, the Department for Transport designated a Public Safety Zone at Farnborough. In April 2004, the Council adopted Interim Planning Policy on the control of new development within the Public Safety Zone. The 2005 Planning Application was seeking a variation of Condition 11 of the existing airport planning permission given in October 2000, to grant a redistribution of the permitted movement numbers, increasing the total number of movements allowable at Weekends and Bank Holidays from 2,500 to 5,000.TAG lodged an appeal against Rushmoor Council's decision to refuse permission in June 2006. The appeal was heard by the Planning Inspectorate at a public inquiry. In March 2008 the Planning Inspectorate was directed by the Secretaries of State to grant planning permission. For more detailed information on all the planning applications you can go to Rushmoor Bourough Council dedicated web pages.
TAG Master Plan TAG has prepared a master plan for the airport, looking at how it would like to see it developed up to 2019. The plan sets out its goals for the local area, taking into account the views of residents and other interested parties.


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On Thursday, October 11, 2018, Comics Experience Creators Workshop member Ramon Gil will launch the very first Diversity Comic Con at New York's Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT)! The con will take place from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Great Hall of FIT's Conference Center.
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Ramon is a professor at the school, who also serves as Art Director for Pronto Comics, and is an independent comics creator in his own right. While Ramon has participated in and helped organize multiple comics-related events throughout his career, Diversity Comic Con will be his first time organizing an event specifically combining his love of comics with his commitment to increased visibility for underrepresented groups within the industry.
Other participating Comics Experience community members include instructor Chris "Soto" Sotomayor, Creators Workshop pro member Reilly Brown, Make Comics podcast co-host Heather Antos, and former Workshop member Matt Kelly. An impressive showing of additional guests, panels, and exhibitors is available at the Diversity Comic Con website.
Admission to Diversity Comic Con is free, but reservations are required! Visit the convention website for details and tickets.
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Carer who stole more than £50,000 from Frome Alzheimer's patient is jailed
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Kisella Hillman was jailed for two years today
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A care worker who stole thousands of pounds from an elderly woman with Alzheimer's was branded a congenital liar as she was jailed for two years today.
Kisella Hillman committed the offences over the course of about three months while she was being paid to look after the 89-year-old victim, who lived near Frome .
She claimed she had used the money to pay for time in a recording studio and to help support an orphanage in Kenya.
The 27-year-old defendant, of Little Keyford Lane, Frome, had denied charges of stealing £4,000 cash belonging to Kathleen Brindle at Frome between November 27, 2013, and December 17, 2013 by abuse of position.
Frome carer Kisella Hillman stole thousands of pounds from Alzheimer's patient
She also denied a theft of £15,500 and a £32,000 fraud, but was found guilty of all three charges following a six-day trial at Taunton Crown Court earlier this year.
During the trial, prosecutor Nikki Coombe told Taunton Crown Court Hillman had been employed to look after Mrs Brindle when she moved to live with her family in Mells, following the death of her son.
With her mental health deteriorating, Hillman had been supposed to help insure her quality of life, making sure she was eating and drinking and taking her out for shopping, lunch and social occasions.
But Hillman had been syphoning off money from the woman's bank account, Mrs Coombe said, before progressing to help herself to £32,000.
The transactions and withdrawals were spotted by an employee of the Brindle family after Hillman had been dismissed from her role for poor timekeeping.
When arrested and interviewed by police, Hillman told them the money had been given to her as a gift.
Giving evidence in her defence, Hillman said she had originally started work as a nanny for the family, before being asked to take on the role of caring for the woman, who had moved from Buckinghamshire following the death of her son.
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Hillman claimed she had spent some of the money on time in a recording studio and had donated the rest to an orphanage in Kenya, but at her sentencing today was unable to provide evidence of what had happened to the money.
Mitigating, Eiran Reilly told the court that due to the victim's deteriorating mental health, the lasting effects of the thefts had little effect on her – something which did not go down well with Recorder Jonathan Barnes, who snapped: "That is pretty scant mitigation on your part."
Mr Reilly added that Hillman had no previous convictions and had previously been of exceptionally good character, working for a Kenyan charity.
Sentencing, Recorder Barnes said Hillman had 'systematically helped herself to the money of a vulnerable woman she had been entrusted to look after.'
"By all accounts she was a very pleasant woman who was in no position to resist the dishonest pressures you put her under.
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"You set about getting your hands on every single penny of her money – as much as it was possible. And shortly after the money disappeared, you travelled to Africa.
"You say the money went to an orphanage in Kenya, but have not been able to provide a scrap of evidence to support that.
"The sad fact is that you are a congenital liar and you tell whatever lie at a given moment that it suits you to tell. You maintain your innocence and you have shown no remorse."
She was jailed for a total of two years, and the court also heard Hillman will be subject to a hearing under the Proceeds of Crime Act in an attempt to claw back some of the money she took.


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Lydd Rifle Club is formed from a relatively small group of individuals from all walks of life and a broad spectrum of ages who share a common interest in the sport of shooting.  Although primarily a full bore rifle club our members enjoy shooting a wide range of weapons including .22rimfire, Gallery rifle (under lever carbines), black powder pistol/rifle, and full bore rifle both sporting and target. We also have a healthy contingent of members dedicated to old military weapons from both World Wars.
We shoot twice a month on Military Ranges at Hythe and Lydd with ranges varying from 25yds to 1,100yds. On occasions we arrange for a day at Bisley for any members who fancy a change of venue and between our shoots get together for a day at a local clay shoot for anyone who is interested. Whilst we take the sport seriously we also try to ensure that everybody has a good enjoyable day.  Our aim is to promote to sport of shooting in all its various forms and encourage the safe handling and ownership of firearms by responsible citizens.
The 2023 AGM will take place at 11am on Satuirday 25th February in Biddenden Village Hall. Evereyone is welcome although only full members of the club are eligable to vote.
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Whilst on a training exercise on the evening of Wednesday 28 September Calshot RNLI volunteer lifeboat crew were tasked to two separate incidents.
The lifeboat crew launched both our the Atlantic 85 and D class lifeboats for a short exercise to test potential new equipment and within 10 minutes were tasked by Solent Coastguard to assist one person in a sinking speedboat just off Itchen Bridge.
Both crews immediately made haste to the incident scene. Upon arrival they found the man to be waist deep in water and that he had neglected to put the bung in the hull of his speedboat.
They inserted a temporary bung and started using the salvage pump. The casualty was checked by the RNLI casualty care trained crew to see if any medical assistance was required. Whilst doing this the crew received a further task to assist with a missing person.
One crew member stayed with the man and his speedboat to continue pumping and help recover the boat whilst the two lifeboats sped off to the last known location of missing person.
The report was that he had been rowing a small dinghy from shore to his houseboat when his oar snapped. He decided it would be safer to try and return to shore. His partner who had been watching the proceedings lost sight of him in the dark so rang 999 for the coastguard.
When the crew arrived on scene they made an extensive search of the area and eventually found the missing man on the shore. They gave him a survivor lifejacket to wear and then took him to his houseboat and very anxious partner to which the man said: 'I cannot believe she called the coastguard'.
After leaving the second incident both lifeboats returned to collect the crew member and the pump from the first incident then were released by Solent Coastguard and returned to station.