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By Heather MallickStar Columnist
We see the pattern Premier Doug Ford will follow for the next four years: an assembly line of spiteful cancellations. He will kill everything enacted by previous Liberal governments, not because they were bad, but because they were, I repeat, enacted by previous Liberal governments.
The list includes cancelling cap and trade, essential protections for precarious workers, the exploratory basic income project, a modern sex-ed curriculum in schools and a panel studying violence against women, suspending funding for local parent groups, replacing Liberal patronage appointees with Conservative ones at huge salary levels, and cancelling the Green Ontario Fund, which helped retrofit to save energy. On Monday, Ford will rub our faces in it by making us vote for a Toronto city council cut in half, lopsided in power and bewildering to all.
It's like moving into a new house and smudging to remove the previous owner's negative energies. Ford will just burn the place down.
It's a childish way to spite one's enemies, cancelling cap and trade particularly childish in the sense that deliberately hastening climate change will kill children.
Everything favoured by Liberals sets Ford aflame; he's a lot like Stephen Harper that way. I imagine there will be some decisions by Ford that I will find sensible. If Ford finds out, he'll cancel them, too. Ford copies Donald Trump in that they both call in airstrikes on everything done prior to their reaching power.
We live in madness. We are aghast.
Monday's mayoral election will be a twist of the knife. Voters hate the emaciated new council but must choose a visionary mayor and a councillor who will do the least harm to the oversized huge ward she or he has been saddled with. It's bad democracy but it works for Ford, making urban progressives run against each other and handing power to Ford's conservative suburban tribe.
I talked to Brad Bradford, the city planner running for Ward 19 (Beaches-East York) against the NDP's Matthew Kellway. (In the interests of fairness, I gave them both equal sign time on my lawn.) I wanted to hear Bradford's views on council dysfunction, the Gardiner plan, voter response on talk radio and doorsteps, and the subject no one cares to discuss, urban architecture.
Former chief planner Jennifer Keesmaat, who hired Bradford, endorsed him before she decided to run for mayor, but John Tory has endorsed him too, designating him as lead campaigner for the subway downtown relief line, an expansion needed since the 1980s. Governments exist to plan for the future. City hall failed us. "In the '90s, nobody thought we'd surpass Chicago in size," Bradford says, but it happened. As I said, he's a planner, which is ideal prep for city council.
Some voters may not like Bradford's openness to hybrid options for the Gardiner Expressway rather than tearing it down, but he doesn't like the idea of an eight-lane boulevard. It's an arguable point, difficult to explain on Twitter, so best not try.
A voter complained to me that two middle-aged white males are leading the Ward 19 race — Bradford is 32 — which seems lopsided. It's part of the ideological tribalism that soaks modern debate. What group are you in? How ardent are you, ranging from "Sen. Ted Cruz is a Proud Canadian" to "Extreme Crokinole" to "I'm Eating Less Meat Now" to "Mao's Red Guard"? Whatever you are, will you sit down with Mayor Keesmaat or Mayor Tory and try to find "a point of alignment," as Bradford calls it?
There were some extremists, left and right, in the previous council who refuse to meet and talk. (Note: I urge Ward 7 to vote for Tiffany Ford or Anthony Perrruzza or, frankly, a big blue frog or my laundry basket, anyone but that clown Giorgio Mammoliti.) It's as if Trump sent a test case over the border along with irrationality gas, now a fog over Toronto. It clouds our breathing, our brains.
Bradford says one of the biggest problems we face is apathy. He absolutely backs term limits, if only because voter inertia and name recognition will give any council seat winner a job for life.
Toronto is getting uglier. Not since the disastrous shoeboxes and concrete Brutalist fortresses of the 1960s has Toronto seen so many bad new buildings. Glass towers are ugly, with different tints revealing the year in which they were so cheaply built.
But the market wants floor-to-ceiling windows, Bradford says, along with balconies that will never be used unless it's for storage. It sells.
Downtown Toronto looks glassy, generic and ill-maintained to me. Bradford disagrees. But he does want a design review panel for midrise buildings. Happily, they're appearing in the Beaches but must be built in a particular way to attract shops, restaurants and foot traffic.
I want planners, more than developers, to have a say in rescuing Toronto. Otherwise we're going to look like fractals of our ugliest intersection, Yonge and Bloor. Let's hope we get that Monday vote right, good luck to almost all.
Heather Mallick is a columnist based in Toronto covering current affairs. Follow her on Twitter: @HeatherMallick
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – OCTOBER 10, 2018– Two-time Academy Award-winning actor Christoph Waltz will be a special guest at the upcoming 2018 Virginia Film Festival, VAFF officials announced today. The Festival also announced program additions including Moonlightwriter and director Barry Jenkins' latest film, If Beale Street Could Talk, and Julian Schnabel's At Eternity's Gate, which stars Willem Dafoe as Vincent van Gogh.
Christoph Waltz is best known for his work with filmmaker Quentin Tarantino. After working steadily on stage and on screen in Europe for 30 years, Waltz burst on the Hollywood scene in 2009 when he played the ruthless, brutal, but at times charming Austrian SS Col. Hans Landa in Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds. The role earned Waltz 27 major awards, including 2009 Golden Globe and Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor. He won his second Golden Globe and Academy Award in 2012, again in the Best Supporting Actor category, for his role as bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz in Tarantino's Django Unchained. Other acclaimed roles have included plagiarist Walter Keane in Tim Burton's Big Eyes; and 007 nemesis Ernst Stavro Blofeld in 2015's Spectre. Other starring roles for Waltz have included Benjamin Chudnofsky in Green Hornet, the villainous Cardinal Richelieu in Paul W.S. Anderson's remake of The Three Musketeers, and August in Francis Lawrence's adaptation of Sara Gruen's bestselling novel Water for Elephants.
Barry Jenkins' If Beale Street Could Talk recently had its World Premiere at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival. A powerful follow up to Jenkins' Academy Award-winning triumph Moonlight, If Beale Street Could Talk is set in 1970s Harlem and is centered around the story of young African American couple Tish and Fonny. The pair, friends since childhood, find themselves deeply in love and are eager to get married. Their love story is shattered when Fonny ends up in prison after being falsely accused of a heinous crime, and Tish finds herself in a race against time to prove his innocence before their child is born.
Julian Schnabel's At Eternity's Gate is a journey inside the world and mind of a person who, despite skepticism, ridicule, and illness, created some of the world's most beloved and stunning works of art. This is not a forensic biography, but rather scenes based on Vincent van Gogh's (Academy Award-nominee Willem Dafoe) letters, common agreement about events in his life that present as facts, and moments that were just plain invented.
Matangi / Maya / M.I.A. is an intimate portrait shot by Maya Arulpragasam and her friends over the last 22 years. The film captures her unlikely rise from immigrant teenager in London, to the international pop star M.I.A. who draws inspiration from her roots. M.I.A.'s mashup, cut-and-paste identity pulls from every corner of her journey, including Tamil politics, Art-school punk, hip-hop beats, and the voice of multicultural youth. The cameras roll through Maya's battles with the music industry and mainstream media as her success and fame grew, and she cemented her place as one of the most provocative and divisive artists working in music today.
The 2018 Virginia Film Festival is presented by The Joseph & Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation (Richard M. Adler and Joseph Erdman, Trustees). The 2018 Virginia Film Festival is generously supported by the following Premiere Sponsors: The AV Company, Bank of America, CFA Institute, Community Idea Stations, Harvest Moon Catering, James Madison's Montpelier, Violet Crown Charlottesville, and the Virginia Film Office.
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FCAs 3.6-liter Pentastar V-6 Hybrid Propulsion System Chosen for Wards 10 Best Engines List
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FCA's innovative 3.6-liter Pentastar V-6 hybrid propulsion system has been named as one of the engines in the 2017 edition of Wards list of 10 Best Engines. The new 3.6-liter Pentastar V-6 hybrid propulsion engine will be making its debut in the 2017 Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid, and plays a role in making it the most fuel-efficient minivan ever to benchmark performance numbers, including a fuel-economy rating of 84 miles-per-gallon-equivalent (MPGe), indicative of the vehicle's combined city- and highway-cycle performance in electric-mode only. The can also excelled when it came to two other parameters of efficiency, with recent testing by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) showing that it had a total driving range rating of 566 miles and electric-only range rating of 33 miles.
Speaking about the selection of the engine for Ward's list of the 10 best engines, WardsAuto Senior Content Director Drew Winter said that the team was wowed by the Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid's seamless operation. The eFlite transmission shifts smoothly between pure electric mode and a combination of electric and gasoline engine propulsion. He added that FCA's powertrain engineers put in a lot of hard work to make the company's first plug-in hybrid minivan a success by reworking the V-6 engine for a hybrid application, but developing an innovative transmission inhouse that can effectively coordinate power from two electric motors and the gasoline engine.
eFlite, the electrically variable transmission that is used in the Pacifica Hybrid was developed in-house by a team of engineers that dealt exclusively with the task of delivering a high-efficiency powertrain within the parameters that customers expect from minivans.
In conventional hybrid vehicles, one motor serves as a generator and a second motor, which is usually much larger delivers torque to the wheels. The new eFlite system uses a one-way clutch to allow a motor that is typically used only as a generator to also deliver torque to the wheels, depending on driving conditions. This leads to higher efficiency, refinement and better component packaging.
Bob lee, Head of Engine, Powertrain and Electrified Propulsion, and Systems Engineering, FCA – North America said that the company was very proud that its newest hybrid propulsion engine made it to the Wards 10 Best Engines list.
He added, "The latest version of the three-time Wards 10 Best Engines family runs on an Atkinson combustion cycle and when paired with our new eFlite dual-motor electrically variable transmission, delivers class-leading efficiency and refinement for our minivan customers."
The Pacifica Hybrid has maximum space in the rear cargo area as its 16-kWh lithium-ion battery pack is located under the second-row floor and this allows the model plenty of room for seven passengers and helps it to retain the third-row Stow 'n Go seating and storage. Recharging takes minimal time of two hours using an optional 240-volt (Level 2) charger, which is available from Mopar through dealers. If a 120-volt (Level 1) charger, which is provided as a standard option with the vehicle, the Pacifica Hybrid can be fully recharged in about 14 hours. The vehicle's battery would also get charged through regenerative braking.
When the energy in the battery is depleted to a certain level, the Pacifica Hybrid becomes a part-time electric vehicle, like a conventional hybrid, in order to maximize its energy and efficiency. The wheels get power from the electric drive system and this is also supplemented by a specially adapted new version of the award-winning gasoline-powered Pentastar 3.6-liter V-6. In its Green Vehicle Guide, the EPA gave the all-new minivan a rating of 10 based on its performance when it came to fuel economy and greenhouse-gas emissions.
In the 22 years since Wards 10 Best Engines was established eight engines that were made by FCA US and its predecessor companies have bagged 17 awards.
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In the spiritual realm, "Epiphany " means to have saving faith in Jesus Christ as Savior, and in that faith, to also understand, that Jesus is your personal Redeemer, the very Son of God.
When the King of Kings and Lord of Lords comes to be in, with, and amongst His people, He always arrives in humbleness and humility. On Palm Sunday, He arrived riding on a colt, the foal of a donkey. Nowadays, He reveals Himself in the waters of Baptism, the Bread and Wine of Holy Communion, and the words of a common language in the sacred Scriptures.
As the King allows His servants into His presence, it is an act of mercy. In the Scriptures, to have mercy upon another is to have compassion upon them, because they are trapped in a bad situation or circumstance. It is so bad that they cannot set themselves free, and they cannot attend to their own needs. So, they depend upon another to attend to their needs from the outside. This is having mercy. We, and the world in which we live, could not exist without the mercy of our God. The Gospel Readings appointed for the Sundays in Epiphany will reflect these themes.
Is Jesus Your King, the One who rules over you and your life, or do other earthly and worldly entities exercise power and authority over you?
Jesus the King always arrives in humbleness and humility. Do you expect to see Him only in His power and might?
Is your King, a God of love and mercy, or only angry and Judgmental, seeking punishment?
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What's Next For The Queen's Gambit Star, Anya Taylor-Joy
Anya's outstanding performance as Thomasin in Robert Eggers' period horror film The Witch (2015), and the positive reviews it got at the Sundance festival revealed her incredible potential to the world; it was widely released and viewed in 2016. She then starred as the title character in the thriller Morgan (2016), directed Luke Scott and also starring Kate Mara. She also starred in Vikram Gandhi's film Barry, which focused on a young Barack Obama in 1981 New York City. Taylor-Joy played one of Obama's close friends. In 2017, she headlined M. Night Shyamalan's horror-thriller film Split (2016), playing Casey Cooke, a girl abducted by a mysterious man with split personalities. In 2019, she reprised her role as Casey in the film Glass. Anya was also the lead actress in the music video for Skrillex's remix of GTA's song Red Lips. She was nominated for the 2017 BAFTA Rising Star Award.
The American-British-Argentinian model-turned-actress started off the year as the titular character in the latest adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma, appeared in a leading role in long-awaited X-Men horror film The New Mutants, and last, but not least, became the biggest thing on Netflix with her star-making performance in The Queen's Gambit.
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Under the influence of rock music of the 60s, 10-year-old Frank had picked up his first Guitar. His first teacher was a Paraguayan virtuoso named Carlos Baez, a temporary resident of Rhineland. Frank played his first gigs as a guitarist when he was just 13 years old in a band formed by teachers and his school. His passion for jazz led him to learn self-taught tenor and soprano saxophone. Despite his later career as a classical musician playing the Classical guitar, he has always regarded John Coltrane as one of his towering influences. Bungarten had studied Music at the Academy of Music Cologne. After musical training with Karl-Heinz Bottner and Hubert Käppel and a master class with Oscar Ghiglia in Italy he slowly worked on his own artistic voice and direction on his principle instrument,which is the Classical Guitar. In addition to the guitar he has played the saxophone with his group "Extempore", a free improvised music with numerous engagements in radio productions, festivals and jazz clubs. After a second place at the Federal University Competition in 1981, he met with serious success the same year when Andrés Segovia awarded him first prize in the Guitar Competition in Granada, combined with a tour of Spain. Immediately following his studies (graduating with distinction), he commenced his career as a University lecturer and has been performing as a soloist in almost all countries throughout Europe and the Americas. Till date, he has played as a soloist in over 40 countries, including the ones that are commissioned by the Goethe Institute. He has played at the Berlin Philharmonic, the Arts and Convention Centre Lucerne, the Gasteig Munich, the Salzburg Festival, Schwetzingen Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, MDR Music Summer, the Lower Saxony Music Festival and International Guitar Festivals of the Mediterranean, Scandinavian, Indian and many more. Frank has won two Echo awards for his outstanding stylistic versatility on the Modern Classical Guitar.
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I read this article and found it very interesting, thought it might be something for you. The article is called More Sunshine in the Alps: More Snow in the Rockiesand is located athttps://welove2ski.com/snow-report/december-8-2016.
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More Sunshine in the Alps: More Snow in the Rockies
By Sean Newsom | on December 8, 2016 | 0 Comment
High-altitude resorts such as Cervinia are the best place to be right now. Photo: cervinia.it
In the Alps, the skies are clear, and warm air up is wafting in from the south-west. Temperatures have risen sharply as a result. In the French Alps, the daytime freezing point is up to 3200m, and in Austria it's at 3100m. It'll get even warmer at the weekend.
High pressure looks set to dominate the weather until at least the middle of next week; although it will drift westwards a touch. This should let in a cold northerly wind in the east on Monday, forcing the mercury down sharply in Austria (the daytime freezing point should drop to 1400m). There may even be a dusting of snow there.
In the west temperatures will drop back too, though the change won't be so pronounced.
In other words, the muted start to the Alpine season continues. As regular Snow Report readers will know, there's already lots of snow up high in the western Alps, as a result of the storms of November 6-11 and November 21-25. In the south-western Alps (ie the southern French resorts and Piemonte) there's snow at lower elevations, too. But elsewhere resorts are heavily reliant on their snow cannons for coverage. Below about 2200m, pistes are ribbons of white against the grass.
Here's how it's looking this afternoon in two of the winners in the recent snow lottery. Pictured below is Bardonecchia in Italy, which has 20-160cm of settled snow across its pistes. It's opened earlier than scheduled but will close again on December 11.
Photo: bardonecchiaski.com
And this is the Solaise above Val d'Isere, where I was skiing last week. No shortage of snow up here…
Photo: valdisere.com
But even in the less favoured resorts you can still ski. Modern ski areas can produce huge stretches of piste even if there's no natural snow – provided it's cold enough to run the snow cannons. Fortunately, the last ten days have been near-perfect for that. In Italy's Dolomiti Superski area, for example, a staggering 622km of pistes are skiable, even though Mother Nature has only dusted the higher peaks.
This is the scene above Alba in Trentino this afternoon – next door to Canazei this afternoon.
Photo: visittrentino.it
And this is Courchevel, which along with Meribel, St Martin and Les Menuires in the Three Valleys, opens for the season on Saturday. At the top of the resort the mountains are white, but lower down the cover has come from the cannons.
Photo: courchevel.com
Thank goodness this really warm spell won't last beyond the weekend – because in the lower resorts it will shut down the snow cannons altogether. Even in the village of Val d'Isere at 1850m, a high of +9C is expected on Saturday, which will probably be the warmest day. In the lower resorts of France, the daytime high will be more like +12C.
What's next? We can't be sure. From the middle of next week the mid-range forecasts disagree sharply. Some predict continued sunshine and another mild spell, but today the ECMWF has suddenly become more skier-friendly in its outlook. Here's meteociel.fr's current ECMWF chart for Sunday December 18 (though it's important to remember this is only a hypothesis at this stage).
Image: © meteociel.fr
Note the huge blob of warm air over the Atlantic. If it does snow, we may get another mild spell to follow.
In the meantime, we'll need to keep sacrificing the chickens and keep our eyes on the forecasts. At this time of year, the weather can change dramatically overnight, so there may yet be deep snow at Christmas. But we can't be sure of it. If you're still planning a last-minute dash to the Alps it's safest to aim high: or hold off booking a bit longer in case the ECMWF's cold snap materialises.
Don't forget the glacier ski areas: this is the Stubai. Photo: stubaier-gletscher.com
Meanwhile in North America…
In Colorado, Vail has had 20cm of snow since Tuesday, and Aspen 25cm. What's more, according to local snow guru Joel Gratz, "A flow of moisture from the Pacific Ocean will bring snow to most Colorado mountains for most of the next 10 days."
Here's how it looked in Vail yesterday.
Photo: Vail/Facebook
The only problem is that it'll be milder than usual, and so at times the snow will be wet and heavy; but Gratz thinks colder, light snow will also be part of the mix.
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Sarara tragically dies in northern Kenya
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We are deeply saddened to announce the death of Sarara, one of the most beloved and famous resident bull elephants in Samburu National Reserve, northern Kenya. The carcass of the 32-year-old wild bull, who was in the prime of his life, was discovered to the south of Buffalo Springs National Reserve. His tusks were intact and recovered by the Kenya Wildlife Service, and we suspect that he was the victim of conflict in an area known as the Attan Swamp. Conflict between humans and elephants worsened in northern Kenya during the drought, but Sarara's death came after rain. Large numbers of elephants had congregated in the Attan Swamp due to the fresh, lush grass.
A year ago, Sarara needed urgent medical attention after he was speared. That time he was treated for his injuries and recovered quickly, gaining enough strength to make it through Kenya's crippling drought. This time, however, his luck tragically ran out and his life was brought to an abrupt end. Sarara was a curious, lovable elephant who kept us on our toes during his frequent visits to our research camp. From sauntering through our carpark, using our trees as scratching posts, walking off with our tracking collars, and breaking our walls in his exuberant efforts to reach acacia trees, his antics captivated everyone, visitors and film crews alike. Our hearts are heavy with the news of Sarara's death and he will be hugely missed.
Save the Elephant's Director of Field Operations, David Daballen, says, "Sarara's death is a harsh reminder of the challenges we face as human-elephant conflict escalates across northern Kenya. One in four elephant deaths in the north are now caused by conflict with people. We believe that Sarara may have been shot. He was in an area that is lush and green after the rains and a favorite place for elephants to congregate. At this stage, we are unsure of the motives behind his killing, but are working with Kenya Wildlife Service and talking to local communities to get a better understanding of the situation."
Watch this short film created a year ago after Sarara was speared, which we think serves as a fitting tribute to his magnificence.
RIP Sarara
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Q: Evaluate limit without L'Hopital's rule How can this limit be evaluated without the use of L'Hopital's rule. I already understand how to evaluate it with the use of it.
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\lim_{x\to 0} (\frac{e^{3x}-1}{x})
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I am wondering if there is some sort of substitution I can use to prove it can evaluate to 3. Assume knowledge of first-principals.
This fact was used in the answer for this question.
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I do not follow the solution to this question Evaluate $\lim_{x\to 0} \frac{a^x -1}{x}$ without applying L'Hopital's Rule. If someone can expand further on that that would also be great!
I am not looking for similar answers to these: Show $\lim\limits_{h\to 0} \frac{(a^h-1)}{h}$ exists without l'Hôpital or even referencing $e$ or natural log

A: Recall that by standard limit as $x\to 0$
$$\frac{e^x-1}{x}\to 1$$
then by $y=3x\to 0$
$$\frac{e^{3x}-1}{x}=3\frac{e^{3x}-1}{3x}=3\frac{e^y-1}{y}\to 3$$

A: As @Clement C. points out, $$\lim_{x\to0}\frac {e^{3x}-1}x=\lim_{x\to0}\frac {e^{3x}-e^{3\cdot 0}}{x-0}=(e^{3x}){^{'}}(0)=(3e^{3x})(0)=3e^{3\cdot 0}=3e^0=3\cdot 1=3$$.

A: One way to evaluate the limit is using Taylor series:
The Taylor series at $x=0$ of $\frac{e^{3x}-1}{x}$ is
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3 + \frac{9x}{2} + \frac{9x^2}{2} + \frac{27x^3}{8} + \frac{81x^4}{40} + O(x^5)
$$
So $$\lim_{x\to 0} \left(\frac{e^{3x}-1}{x}\right) = 3$$

A: Put $t=e^{3x} -1$ and find $x$ using log transformation.
You will be left with limit as $\frac{3t}{\ln(1+t)}$ then use log expansion you will get required answer.

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The product is based on a unique Pay As You Go (PAYG) model allowing users to top-up their Solar Home Solutionfrom any of the 55,000 Easypaisa shops across the countryor directly through their Easypaisa Mobile Accounts. The Solar Kitshave a unique microcontroller which shuts down the Solar System automatically once the Top-Up amount has been consumed.Once all instalments are paid, the microcontroller becomes inactive and the Solar Solution will continue functioning without any further Top-Ups required. The ownership of the Solar Kitis transferred over to the customer upon consuming a total recharge amount equalto the total cost of the solar kit.
This unique model has empowered customers to pick whether they want their solar equipment to work for a full month or just for a day.Currently, there are three Solar Solution Models being offered ranging from 30 to 100 watts solar panels.
Expressing his delight, Yahya Khan, Chief Financial Services Officer, Telenor Pakistan said, "This initiative will empower nearly 40% of the Pakistanis who live off the gridwith access to clean and affordable solar energy. A large number of our rural population lacks access to the electricity and are dependent on expensive, inefficient fuel-based sources. The Solar Home Solution will providea sustainable, affordable and long-lasting electricity solution," he added.
The Solar Home Solutionhas been rolled out in Hyderabad, Thatta, Badin, Tharparker and Rahim Yar Khan so far. Currently, the loan applications are accepted at selected Tameer Bank branches and Telenor Sales & Service Centres, with the aim of extending the solution to all Easypaisa shops.


This morning I had the pleasure of conducting an interview with Hilary Homes of Amnesty International to find out where the rumoured plea deal for Omar Khadr stands. Also to help recap for my listening audience how it is that a child plucked off the battlefield at the age of 15 could end up spending 8 years in military detention and then have to face a military tribunal, which explicitly forbids the invocation of the Geneva Conventions and where the outcome is pretty much predetermined. There's also the issue of the brutal interrogation techniques Omar was subjected to by his American captors and the underhanded and possibly criminal manner in which CSIS helped to do dirty work for the US.
The interview was a good one and I'll post up a link to it later today so you can listen for yourself. Hilary is a terrific interview and the talk was informative as I knew it would be. So I get home and open up my local fishwrap to see what's there like always and maddeningly I find on page A-21 of the News Section an article entitled "Khadr has never renounced Muslim jihad, expert on evil says."
A bunch of questions spring to mind. What makes one an expert on evil? How would you quantify such a thing? Why isn't this in the Op-Ed section of my paper?
Well, it turns out that the expert in question is Dr. Michael Welner who is a renowned forensic psychiatrist which is a profession that encompasses the interface between law and psychiatry. They work with the courts to help evaluate two specific areas of interest: Competency to Stand trial (CST) and Mental State at the Time of the Offence (MSO). Dr. Welner has tried to go further by creating what he calls the 'Depravity Scale.' This mostly subjective measurement he has created incorporates forensic science, law and public input so as to distinguish crimes that warrant more severe punishment from those that do not. In effect, it's an attempt to quantify evil.
This of course does not make him an expert on evil any more than any of us, but it sounds sexier when you're writing up a newspaper opinion piece. Oh wait! This article is not in the Op-Ed section of my newspaper it's in the regular news section. So even though what's being forwarded is one man's opinion -- a man whose area of expertise is not the Middle-East or terrorism or the psychology behind child soldiers, the story is right there along with the rest of the news. A narrative to help make Omar Khadr seem less sympathetic.
So Dr. Welner who has never met Omar and who has never been to Guantanamo "discounts much cited comments by some US guards at Guantanamo that the Toronto native is a "good kid" and salvageable." He calls them shallow in their prognostic significance. Well, at least they have met him. Welner also says that Khadr has never publicly repudiated Al-Qaida and made no call to other "...radical Islamists to mature beyond their own elemental intolerance."
The sociopathy at work here from someone who should know better is stunning. There is the presumption of guilt for starters, no acknowledgement of the child's malleability, and for him to suggest that this boy should be calling on all who believe in jihad or radical Islam to renounce it is preposterous.
Another day, another lying, manipulative narrative from the MSM -- in this case from Steven Edwards of Postmedia News, courtesy of Canwest News and the Montreal Gazette.
You can help by sending a letter to the PM by going here. If you're in Montreal, Toronto or Edmonton the schedule for screening of the documentary about Omar entitled 'You Don't Like The Truth - 4 days inside Guantánamo' can be found here.
UPDATE: An anonymous reader has informed me that Dr. Welner in fact was hired by the Pentagon to be its witness and has spent seven to eight hours over two days interviewing Omar Khadr which still does not make him an expert on child soldiers, coerced confessions or anything else relating to Omar's case including Omar. He seems to have been hired strictly because he is a high-profile guy and is willing to say what the Pentagon wants him to say. Dr. Stephen Xenakis a former brigadier-general in the US military who has spent more than 100 hours meeting with the Toronto-born captive holds an opinion that is the exact opposite of Dr. Welner's. I stand by what I said originally about the "expert on evil."
Also it's worth a trip over to Peace, order and good government, eh? to read what pogge has to say on the matter. It's short and to the point!
Thank you very much Karl, I hope this is read far and wide.
According to Edwards the Doctor did go to GITMO. Welner spent 7-8 hours over two days interviewing Khadr during videotaped sessions at Guantanamo, and has studied mounds of documented material (searching for his 'goodness', oy vey.
Ultimately, viewing evil as a distinct or quantifiable concept is an illusion and an illusion cannot be legitimized. A loaded concept full of moral and theological judgement.
I simply cannot believe this guy is going to be releasing his 65 page 'opinion' at GITMO on behalf of the prosecution!!
Thanks so much for letting me know I'll update my post to reflect that! Cheers!
As I mentioned on my blog yesterday, the mere fact that Welner has spoken publicly about the trial and his forthcoming. "testimony", absolutely discredits him as a witness and violates his code of ethics.
I'm going down to the station and will post the link to my interview in a couple of hours.
Thanks for coming by - what's your blog's name, I'll blogroll it.
Just read the Wikipedia entry for this guy, Dr. Welner, & noticed that all family members of both his parents extended families apparently perished in Poland during the holocaust. Interesting that an American Jewish psychiatrist with direct family holocaust trauma is "assessing" a Muslim. Just sayin'.
Can Nurse - Yeah, I saw that. a terrible thing to happen to one's family.
He's claiming to be an expert on what's inside this young man at the same time as he presumes his guilt. All this from 7 or 8 hours of speaking with him. That's not credible and he seems to like the media spotlight a whole bunch.
Don't forget to sign the Amnesty's petition.


Wow, this stage was completely thrilling! So hard to keep up with the action, and with Kasia Niewiadoma going in with a weakened team to defend her General Classification lead against the massed peloton of ravenous, attacking, ferocious big squads, it was always going to be nail-biting.
And wow, they didn't disappoint! On the short, sharp climbs and descents, it was attacking at every opportunity, with the Leader's jersey being passed back and forth – where would it end?
As usual, videos first, then the final Look Mum No Hands! #RiderResults game – and then results, reports, more videos, photos and the usual media. As always, I'll edit more in as I see it.
Next, shorter highlights from the race organisers and the UCI.
Stage 3 was the longest we've ever seen in a women's stage race, at 151km long, and it always looked like it would be a battle between escapees and bunch sprint teams, especially with the finish, a long, swooping drag absolutely perfect for power sprinters. But with this year's race being so unpredictable, what would happen?
I've got the highlights videos for you, then the rider for the Look Mum No Hands! Stage 4 #RiderResults competition, and then Stage 3 results, photos, reports and rider tweets for you. As always, I'll add in more as I see it.
First, the 40 minute highlights from ITV4, available for the next 30 days (you may need a VPN to see these).
Stage 2 of the OVO Energy Women's Tour was billed as the Queen Stage, and at 144km long, in wind and rain, was a brutal day. But how did it play out?
I've got video highlights, and then I'll tell you about the rider I've picked for the Look Mum No Hands! #RiderResults competition, and after that, give you the full results, photos and other media.
I'll add in more videos as I see them – and watch out for spoilers just below, because what we have now gives away the results!
Here are the 40 minute highlights from ITV4. These will be available for 30 days, but if you're not in the UK, you might need a VPN to see them. I really want people to try ITV first, for the stats, but if you can't see them, they're also here on YouTube.
I have to admit, I spent the entire evening laughing about how Stage 1 of the OVO Energy Women's Tour went down. I know, I know, Schadenfreude is a bit mean, but that was a really fun stage to "watch" online. I'm not going to spoiler it, watch the highlights below – and then I'll tell you who I've picked for the Look Mum No Hands! #RiderResults Stage 2 competition, and then share the results, photos and more social media I've enjoyed from day 1. As always, I'll add in more highlights as I see them.
You can subscribe for automatic updates via our RSS feed here or via the iTunes store here.
The race stage information is on the excellent race website, including the start times. The UK is in he BST timezone, one hour behind European CEST and 9 hours behind Australian AEST, and 5 hours ahead of USA EDT. So if a stage starts at 11am BST, that's 12:00 CEST, 8pm AEST and 6am EDT.
Watch the TV highlights every day on Eurosport at 10:25pm and 11pm on ITV4, except for Stage 4 on Saturday 10th June, when the ITV4 highlights are at 8pm. 11pm UK BST is 00:00 Euro CEST, 6pm USA EDT and 8am the next day Australian AEST, and if you're not in the UK, can't see ITV4 via a VPN, you can access the channel on filmon.com. Highlights are repeated the next day at various times – more information here.
Play the OVO Women's Tour Virtual DS game – pick your team by 11am BST on 7th June!
Every day, excellent London cycling café chain Look Mum No Hands! will be offering prizes in their #RiderResults competition. I'll be picking a rider for every stage, and telling you a bit more about them, and you need to tell Look Mum where you think they'll place in that particular stage, on their fantastic twitter, with the #RiderResults hashtag – if you're right and they pick your name out of their hat, you'll win something great from their shop (which you should check out, there are gorgeous things). The cutoff point is 5km to go in each stage.
For Stage 1, I'm picking Marianne Vos, who has the most interesting race history. In the first year, she won 3 stages and the overall GC; in 2015, she couldn't race as she was having injury issues, but presented the TV highlights (I interviewed her about that here); then last year, she "only" won one stage and came 4th in the GC.
This year she had a great cyclocross mini-season, winning the first race of the year on New Year's Day, and coming second in the most thrilling World Championships we've ever seen – but her Spring Classics were disappointing to her, and her best result was 7th in Ronde van Drenthe WorldTour race, as she was injured again. She was especially disappointed to miss two of the first ever women's Ardennes Week races, especially Amstel Gold. She seems to be feeling better in May, winning a couple of smaller day races, and then winning Gooik-Geraardsbergen-Gooik in a classic, exhilarating Vos style. But is she back?
In her time, she's won, well…..practically everything! Olympic golds on the track and road, and 13 World Championships across road, track and CX. But more than that, she lives for cycling, and loves it passionately. She has run her own team for years – this year as WM3 Procycling – and the scariest thing about her is that as good as she is at winning, she'll also work her heart out for her team-mates as well, as in the Rio Olympics.
Fans are desperate to see her back on top – but is she? Where do YOU think she'll finish Stage 1?
Find out more about Marianne on her website, and follow her on twitter and instagram.


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Get Sorted: Pitfalls of not having a will
15 Aug, 2018 3:00pm
Wills are one of the easiest things to put off, yet very easy to put in place. Photo / 123RF
By: Tom Hartmann
This is the first of a series in the run up to Sorted Money Week (3-9 September), this year focusing on "Weathering Life's Storms".
"A stitch in time saves nine" goes the saying, but I never really got it.
Sometimes you need a prime example: look into what happens when you don't have a will in place.
Without one, there are inconceivable difficulties and expenses that can hit those left behind – and rips that should have taken a single stitch end up requiring 10 instead.
Wills are perhaps one of the easiest things to put off. Yet they are also one of the easiest things to put in place.
Starting with a simple version doesn't take much, and doesn't need to cost a lot, either.
Since wills typically protect those closest to us – covering the very people we care about most – they deserve a higher place on our priority ladder.
To be honest, it also feels pretty good to have that box ticked. Peace of mind is always welcome!
What happens when you don't have a will
Without a will, you may already know that your assets do not automatically go to your partner if you die, or that the government uses a formula to divide them up.
But to dig a little deeper, I turned to Mike Ireland, a lawyer who has practised estate planning for more than 20 years.
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"You want to avoid the legal and financial minefield which can confront people at the very time they need to be grieving and regrouping," he explains.
Here's what happens:
Any jointly owned property you own (a bank account or a property) passes to the surviving co-owner. But it has to be in both partners' names.
If you have $15,000 or less in savings or investments per institution (such as a bank), an "informal" administration of your estate can still occur without a will.
But typically without a will, you die "intestate". This means two things:
• There's no one to carry out your wishes ("execute your estate"). Figuring out who should do that gets complicated and expensive.
• No one can tell for certain (at least legally) what you would have wanted to happen. Your final wishes might be carried out, but they might not, and this can create problems.
An overwhelming combination
Ireland tells the story of a widow and two young children who were left struggling after her husband's death without a will in place. Their house was in his name only.
Under the Administration Act, each was entitled to a third of their house. The kids' shares, however, had to be held for them until they were 20 years old by a guardian other than herself.
"The widow was somewhat stranded in the house," Ireland remembers. "She was unable to sell it as she needed the cooperation of the children's guardian – who hadn't been appointed through lack of funds."
A will leaving everything to her would have been so much simpler.
"These sorts of situations bring a lot of stress to bear at a time when the players involved are in a process of grieving; the combination can be quite overwhelming."
Then there's human nature
If you find yourself thinking you don't need a will because joint property will all go to your partner and kids anyway, you may want to rethink.
An estate can be challenged, especially when there's a fair bit of money at stake – it's human nature. And of course, disputes always result in legal fees that eat away at the value of the estate.
"On occasions when someone passes away, there is a considerable pot of money sitting on the table, and often the worst money-grabbing side of human nature comes out," Ireland says.
"Having a will might not necessarily deal with any claims against an estate, but a well-drafted and considered will can certainly be an effective shield against many claims."
It can also get extra complicated when you've had multiple relationships throughout life, as often happens in our modern day. A will comes in handy to make sure everyone's kept happy (or at least your obligations to them are met).
So to make sure your people are protected, and that your wishes are carried out, having an up-to-date will is a must.
This year's Money Week (3–9 September) is perfect for your stitch in time to save nine later on – make it one of your goals to get your will sorted.
- Get Sorted is written by Sorted's resident blogger, Tom Hartmann (@TomHartmannNZ). Check out the guides and tools from Sorted – brought to you by the Commission for Financial Capability – at sorted.org.nz.
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Prism is a pattern recognition software. It associates character strings with pattern formations. For example, image processing features extracted from a photograph are coded with string sequences. Identification of pictures is done by constructing a pattern descriptor from string sequences which are unique to each picture.
Once a sequence pattern is extracted it can be further classified using a logical filter. Unlike the neural network which contain no explicit logical or Boolean operatives, PRISM classifies sequential data according to a rule-based profile dictionary. The image processing software uses generic edge enchancement techniques from syntactic pattern recognition, and contour detection.
The Prism software uses the idea of grouping or clustering sets of words to form an abstract description of the data. The cluster of words is called a pattern descriptor, PD. The PD is a representation of the characteristic properties of the data. They lay the foundation or bases upon which the data is structured or classified. The PDs may also be thought as the components parts of a large set of characteristic descriptors of the data.
PRISM can recognize images which have been rotated or scaled in size, and can recognize different image elements randomly scattered throughout the picture. This is because each image is an abstract representation of the 2-dimensional picture in the form of a sequence of characters like the mapping of genetic code.
For example, multi-dimensional image recognition is accomplished by converting the graphical image into an abstract representation. This representation maybe be implemented by transforming the image picture elements into sequences of character symbols or strings. One of the most efficient ways to describe a picture is by drawing the contour outline of the objects in the picture verses describing the filled objects. For human beings, recognizing contours comes very naturally, however, for machines which have not evolved the mechanisms to do this, contours are sets of pixels which are similar in intensity or color. We call the constant intensity or color contour an isoterm. Pictures may contain large sets of pixels with similar intensity and colors. They may be hard to to identify if you had to disinguish many picture elements in the image. On the other hand, an image with distinct, sharply contrasting intensity or color patterns would be easier to recognize. The algorithm to trace the contour of constant intensity is to propagate around the image in a clockwise direction always keeping the area of constant intensity on the right-hand side. The trace is a string representing the propagation direction in each cell or grid.
If the center cell is represented by 0, then there are eight neighborhood cells surrounding cell 0.
For example, a simple rectangle is represented by the string, 234345678781.
The starting point of the trace is P0. It is found by a left to right, and up to down, scan of the image. The contour of an object is traced by finding the cell on the leftmost side as you trace the contour keeping the interior of it on the rightmost side.
Image pattern recognition on a series of handwritten characters can be greatly enhanced using a neural network. Isotermal sequence of handwritten characters are used to train a simple neural network. For a small set of characters, the simple neural network performs perfectly.
The pattern compiler, PC, condenses sets of pattern descriptors, PDs, into associative lists which are used to perform the pattern recognition. A PD is composed of a logical sequence of character strings describing the pattern data. These string sets are transformed into complex representation of patterns with boolean operators. The PC condenses many pattern descriptors together in an efficient manner.
The attribute filter, AF, uses the dictionary produced by the PC module to evaluate the text data and assign attribute codes to the data.
Single words or sequences of words are the elements which PRISM uses to classify data. These language elements in the pattern descriptors are the nodes in a semantic network.
Data descriptors in a semantic network are linked to other elements in the network thereby forming relationships. These sets or sequences of words which are used in logic processing are called the operands. The operands build the logical relationships in the semantic network.
globally across the entire network.
A PD or nodal element can represent any abstract description of an object such as an image, idea or concept. The PD is composed by using the logic operands to create functions or relationships, complex attribute descriptions, and associative interconnections.
logic: A but not B.
There are numerous ways to interweave the PD elements into computer data structures like binary trees, hash buckets, graphs and so forth.
Binary lists or trees are good for ordering or sorting a set. However, if the number of items in the set grows large, the search time increases. We can very effectively decrease the search time if we used many small sets instead of one large one. This can be implemented by using hash buckets.
The elements used to identify a word in the text is to first use a hash map, HMAP, and then funnel the words through a hashbucket index to the binary keyword trees.
The index is composed of keyword nodes, KNODEs, pointers. Each entry is 4 bytes. A total of 1270 entries occupy the 10 block index. Index entry 1271 is the pointer to data descriptor node or profile, PNODE, root.
The keyword, continuation and PD nodes have the same primary node structure.
Element A in the logic statement above is the logic operand or ONUM. The ONUMs are assigned in consecutive ascending order during the PD parsing phase, and is used as bit numbers in a bitmap, OMAP, which covers all of the logic operands in the resultant compiled dictionary. An operand list, OLIST, which contains ONUMs is built for each keyword or phrase. The keyword list, KLIST, or continuation phrase, CLIST, contains the pointer to the OLIST. Logic processing using these structures determines how the bit number in the OMAP will be filled. The OMAP covers all of the operands in the dictionary. The current maximum number of operands in the PRISM logic statements can total 8192 because the operand bitmap, OMAP, is 2 (512 bytes) blocks in size.
5. not within n words.
The relational statement is processed by reading sequentially through the RLIST, comparing each RTWCs in the list for ONUM n to the RTWCs in the list for ONUM n+1.
Relational statements, RS, are the internal LCR representation of one relational clause of a PD logic statement. There are two types of relational statements: ANDs and NOTs. AND Relational Statement This type of RS has the form (...((A + mB) + nC)...) where operands are related by the AND WITHIN N WORDS clause. The proximity of words are indicated by the m, n, etc. NOT Relational Statement This type of RS has the form (...((A - mB) - nC)...) where each operand is related by the NOT WITHIN N WORDS clause.
The Logic Control Record, LCR, containing the logic statement with the ONUM values for the operand. For example, the statement "A and B and within 5 words C" is shorten by the parser to the form: "A+(B+5C) with A, B and C" represented by ONUM values. The algorithm to effect the "within" clause uses information in the Logic Control Record, LCR. The relative text word count, RTWC, is used to keep track of the keyword position relative to other words in the text. Evaluation of the LCRs are separated into processing non-relative, NR, and relative, R, statements. The R statements contains a windowing factor between operands. The compound statement "A+(B+5C)" is made up of an NR and R statement. The expression B+5C is an R statement. R statements should be processed first. The operand "B" is looked up in the OMAP. If it is not found, then the statement (B+5C) is void. If it is found, then the operand "C" is checked to see if it is marked. If it is the RNODEs for both the B and C operands are construclists. The RTWC in both the RNODEs are compared to see if they differ by more than 5. If they do, the statement is void, otherwise it is satisfied.
An extension of this algorithm would be to associate simple groups of words in a sentence together. Particularly, a very often seen pattern in sentences is the grouping of words around verbs. For example, the verb "likes" will immediately trigger a process operator which will look for a noun preceding the verb and an object following the verb. Usually, a noun precedes the verb by only a few words. Similarly, the object of the action verb follows within a couple of words. Consider, for example, the sentence "Tom likes airplanes." In the pattern descriptor example of the node Africa above, suppose we made the statement "Zebra exists in Africa." This statement would be transposed into "exists (zebra; Africa)" which parses into a syntactic tree. These "deep mechanisms" can be built into the pattern descriptor. The outcome could be a fast parser which relates simple patterns for simple finite machines.
The test file is opened. Each word is hashed to see if it might be contained in one of the 1270 hashbuckets. If the bit corresponding to the hash value is set in the HMAP, the KTREE is scanned to check for the keyword. If the word is there, and the zone(s) match, a bit is marked in the OMAP using the OLIST pointed to in the KLIST. The OLIST contains both the non-relative and relative operands. Both type of operands are marked in the OMAP. Nodes for relative operands are inserted into the KNODE list.
The ONUM is coded with a N or R ascii character which indicates that the operand is either non-relative or relative. The following ascii string is the operands integral values.
The RLIST has the following structure.
Each LCR is processed in ascending order of the PNUM. The OMAP is used to evaluate the LCRs. If the operand in the LCR was marked in the OMAP in STEP1, then check the OLIST to see if the operand is a non-relative or relative number. If the operand is non-relative, no further checks are needed. If it is a relative operand scan through the RLIST to validate the within word factor. If the LCR of the PD is validated, then the PD bit number is set in the PMAP.
During STEP3, the text assignments are obtained by looking at the bits set in the PMAP. The attribution codes are extracted from the PDATA of each PD. These codes are inserted into the text descriptor record.
The logic statement is of the form: "LOGIC: A and B and within 5 words C". The parser shortens the statement to the form: "A+(B+5C)". The parser identifies relative statements within parenthesis. The logic assignment is evaluated using the operand bit map, OMAP. The PD bit map, PMAP, is produced as a result of the logic evaluation of the OMAP. The OMAP is obtained by reading the OLIST in each keyword record. The PD number bit map, PMAP, is obtained by reading the PLIST in each keyword record.
(i) Evaluation of the LCR are separated into processing non-relative statements, and relative statements. The non-relative, NR, statements do not contain a windowing factor between operands whereas the relative, R, statements do.
(ii) The compound statement "A+(B+5C)" is made up of an NR and R statement. The statement B+5C is a R-statement. The relative statement should be processed first.
(iii) Operand "B" is looked up in the OMAP. If it is not found, then the statement (B+5C) is void. If it is found, then the operand "C" is checked to see if it is marked. If it is the RNODEs for both the B and C operands are constructed. The RTWCs are inserted in each of the RNODE lists. The RTWC in both the RNODEs are compared to see if they differ by more than 5. If they do, the statement is void. If not, the statement is satisfied. After each LCR is processed the PD bit number, PNUM, in the PMAP should be either cleared or left on as an active PD.


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Jurassic Park Roars With New Stern Pinball Machine
Stern releases a brand new pinball machine that allows players to explore Isla Nublar and confront the iconic dinosaurs from 1993's Jurassic Park.
Fans of Steven Spielberg and Michael Crichton's classic sci-fi action film can now venture into the dinosaur-filled depths of Isla Nublar with Stern's new Jurassic Park pinball machine.
A new trailer highlights the pinball machine's gameplay and its references to the original Jurassic Park movie. According to the description, "With the volcano on the island erupting and threatening to destroy everything in its path, it is the player's mission to rescue park staff, evacuate and recapture dinosaurs, and escape before it's too late! Players will experience heart-pounding excitement right from the start in this action-packed pinball adventure filled with suspense, twists, and turns around every flip."
The machine features an interactive, custom sculpted Tyrannosaurus rex head that releases additional balls into play alongside a Stegosaurus fast ramp and Pteranodon jump ramp. Players can also battle against a Spinosaurus by smashing a captive ball and trap velociraptors in their enclosed cage through precision shooting. The trailer states, "players will experience heart-pounding excitement right from the start in this action-packed pinball adventure filled with suspense, twists, and turns around every flip."
Stern described the machine as "easy-to-setup." It stated, "Jurassic Park Pin is affordable, reliable, built to last, and engineered with genuine Stern commercial-quality parts." The pinball machine's cabinet features "dynamic, high definition, hand-drawn artwork" and "fast flowing metal ramps, lightning quick spinners, and kinetically satisfying physical drop targets will provide players with an adrenalized game experience packed with unmatched action and fun." The machine also incorporates John Williams's iconic theme music, high-definition graphics and animations on a LCD display. Stern states that the pinball machine's design reduces energy usage, increases reliability and only requires simplified servicing. The Jurassic Park pinball machine is currently available for purchase on the company's official website for a price of $4,599.
Spielberg's film adaptation of Crichton's novel of the same name was released in 1993 and starred Sam Neill, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough and Laura Dern. Upon its release, it became the highest-grossing film up to that time, surpassing the box office sales of E. T. the Extra-Terrestrial, and won three Academy Awards in 1994 -- Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing and Best Visual Effects.
Neill, Goldblum and Dern are all set to reprise their roles in the upcoming Jurassic World: Dominion, joining Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard in the final instalment of director Colin Trevorrow's Jurassic World trilogy. The film is set to be released on June 10, 2022.
Source: www.cbr.com/ / YouTube, Stern
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This was the longest kayak I have done so far. We went from the north end of Milford Beach all the way up the coast to Long Bay and back. The weather was perfect, with clear blue skies and the sea was almost flat. The coast was quite impressive in places, with lots of cliffs with houses perched on the edge (they must have some amazing views). There were also lots of slips from the recent bad weather.


Accepting Director Applications for Season 71!
The Sioux City Community Theatre is now accepting director applications for Season 71! Qualified applicants should submit a letter of introduction, a completed director application, and a short resume. It is unlikely that anyone will be appointed director for more than one show per season, but you may increase your chances and submit more than one application if you so desire. Applications will be evaluated based on each applicant's theater background/training, prior directorial experience, history of commitment/service to SCCT, motivation/enthusiasm, and show concept/vision. Understanding of Sioux City Community Theatre's mission is a must.
You can print the application using this link: scct-director-application. Please email the completed application to boxoffice@SCCTheatre.org or mail to Sioux City Community Theatre, 1401 Riverside Blvd., Sioux City, IA, 51109.
For more information, contact the theater at 712-233-2719 or Benjamin Mauritz at bsmauritz@gmail.com.
Mix together a batch of fruitcakes, three dozen Christmas trees, 10,000 outdoor Christmas lights, a chicken pox epidemic, two southern spinsters, an estranged old man, a lost cat named Tutti Frutti, and a Christmas hog named Buster and you've got the recipe for a fun-filled and touching evening of holiday cheer. A moving story of alienation, understanding and reconciliation, Fruitcakes provides audiences with a heaping helping of holiday warmth and Christmas cheer.
At a large, tastefully-appointed Sneden's Landing townhouse, the Deputy Mayor of New York has just shot himself. Though only a flesh wound, four couples are about to experience a severe attack of Farce. Gathering for their tenth wedding anniversary, the host lies bleeding in the other room, and his wife is nowhere in sight. His lawyer, Ken, and wife, Chris, must get "the story" straight before the other guests arrive. As the confusions and miscommunications mount, the evening spins off into classic farcical hilarity.
A non-stop laugh riot featuring three actors performing all 37 of Shakespeare's plays (give or take) in 97 minutes. Fast-paced, witty, and delightfully irreverent, The Complete Works has something for Shakespeare lovers, haters, and everyone in between.
Buy tickets online or call our box office at 712-233-2788 for information on season tickets, group rates and gift certificates. Open Tues-Fri 1-5 PM.
Doors open approximately 20 minutes before showtime.
Cell phone use is prohibited once the show has begun. Please be respectful of other audience members.
Food is not permitted inside the theatre, however you may bring in a beverage.
The use of recording devices, including photogrpahy and video, inside a theatre is a violation of copyright law.
We appreciate your attention to these important rules.


IN A CONTINUED crackdown on the Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DITIB), the State Ministry of Justice of Lower Saxony state in Germany will no longer allow the DITIB to conduct religious services in the prisons.
The Ministry said the contract signed with DITIB Ankara-paid imams will not be able to work but other imams who are working in DITIB's mosques but don't receive salaries from Turkey will be able to continue to work. Also allowed to continue working are voluntary workers, the ministry announced.
"DITIB imams are not able to free themselves from the influence of foreign states and unable to become an 'independent religious community' in German. The unshaken confidence is important in a sensitive environment area like a prison," Justice Minister of the Lower Saxony state government, Barbara Havliza, also the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party member. She further emphasised imams should be independent of the impact of third countries.
The Ministry's statement underlines the contract of the imams who works in DITIB mosques but don't receive a salary from Turkey are exempted from the cancellation and the imams who work part-time and voluntarily will not be affected the ministry's decision of cancellation of the contract.
The ministry further said the information the contract between the Sura Association which is an umbrella body of the mosques and Muslim associations in Lower Saxony, and the state will be valid. The statement includes that the ministry demands information about the imams from the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution.
According to information from the Justice Ministry, DITIB imams provide services to Muslim inmates in nine prisons among 14 prisons in the state. Three imams among 19 imams, sent by the Cologne-based DITIB as a branch of the Presidency of Religious Affairs of Turkey (Diyanet). 12 imams work voluntarily in prisons in the state.
DITIB's Lower Saxony management has resigned last year in November due to interventions by the DITIB headquarters and the Religious Service Attaché in Cologne.
The State government made an announcement last week that, despite Turkey's potential intervention, the cooperation would be continued with DITIB. However, the Ministry of Justice has announced some concerns.


1 A long time ago -- centuries before Alexander and Julius Caesar came along -- there was one powerful Persian ruler whose empire was the biggest the world had yet seen. That ruler's name was Cyrus II or Cyrus the Great.
2 Cyrus was born some time between 590 B.C. and 580 B.C. According to Herodotus, a famous Greek historian, Cyrus came from a very prominent family. His father, grandfather, great grandfather, and great great grandfather were all chieftains of Anshan, a small kingdom in present-day southwestern Iran. One day, Astyages, Cyrus' maternal grandfather who also happened to be the King of the Medes, had a dream that his reign would be cut short by Cyrus. Horrified by the prospects, he ordered his steward, Harpagus, to fetch the infant and kill him. Harpagus did not want to commit the crime, so he gave the baby to a shepherd by the name of Mitradates. Mitradates did not want to do it, either, so he kept Cyrus and raised him as his own son. Nearly a decade later, Astyages found out that Cyrus was still alive. Needless to say, he was furious! In a rage, he slew Harpagus' son and made Harpagus eat the flesh. As for Cyrus, the King of the Medes decided to drop the matter and let the young boy go back to live with his biological parents. At the time, he thought that he had everything under control. He had no idea that Harpagus was extremely angry with him. Vowing to avenge his son's death, Harpagus patiently waited for Cyrus to grow up so, in time, he could persuade him to revolt.
3 In around 550 B.C., nine years after Cyrus ascended the throne of Anshan, Astyages' worst nightmare came true. That year, Cyrus sacked the capital city of the Medes, deposed his grandfather, and brought the once invincible empire to its knees. From that point on, he began a series of military expansions. Wherever he went, victory usually followed. In 546 B.C., Cyrus defeated Lydia. In 539 B.C., he conquered the Neo-Babylonian Empire and became the new master of Mesopotamia. Upon entering Babylon, he released all the Jewish prisoners and allowed them to return to their homeland. Those Jewish prisoners were taken as captives after the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar destroyed Jerusalem in 587 B.C. For almost fifty years, they were forced into exile and denied the chance of ever seeing Jerusalem again. Fortunately, the arrival of Cyrus changed all that. For the first time, they had their freedom back and could go where they pleased. This particular event, plus Cyrus' returning the items that Nebuchadnezzar had looted from the Temple, was recorded in the Bible. Such compassionate gestures made Cyrus the only Gentile Messiah in the eyes of Jews.


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Home RERA All you need to know about zoning under RERA
All you need to know about zoning under RERA
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This article has been written by Advocate Priscilla Rodrigues, pursuing the Certificate course in Real Estate laws from LawSIkho.
What is zoning and a zoning plan?
Types of zoning
Residential Zoning
Commercial Zoning
Industrial Zoning
Agricultural Zoning
Why are zoning regulations needed?
Challenges zoning regulation faces
Strategies to improve the situation of zoning in India
Can zoning be changed?
Application with the local authorities
Non-conforming Uses
Conditional Use Permits
Zoning laws in different cities
Zoning is a form of urban planning in which a municipality or other level of a government divides land into areas called zones, under which, certain land uses are allowed or prohibited. This is done in order to encourage proper land use for different purposes. Zone for a specific reason is designated, such as residential, commercial, industrial etc or it may integrate several compatible uses.
In practical terms, zoning is also done in order to stop future developments from interfering with current uses of the land and to preserve the "essence" of a group. It is a tool used by local councils to regulate the development and usage of real estate in a particular area. Zoning controls how much development will take place and direct land use in such a way as to make it financially, geologically and physiologically purposeful.
A simple and clear building regulation helps to improve property rights aims to protect the consumers from defective construction practises and leads to the creation of additional capital in the country. But if the methods are too complex or too straightforward or too cost-intensive, the developers prefer to continue without even a permission. In certain emerging countries, almost 60-80 percent of construction projects are executed without sufficient licenses and approvals.
Building regulation is a significant factor that many businessmen take into account when determining where to set up their business. Zoning laws may provide a useful structure for investors by determining the most suitable location for their projects before applying for a building permit. They can also enable local authorities to create a reliable and clear basis for issuing and approving building permits or to refuse to accept construction proposals. An important aspect of building regulation is zoning as it governs the position and the use of some types of structures within a particular city.
It is therefore important to have an up-to-date zoning system not only to promote collaboration between agencies required for prosperous urban planning but also to ensure productivity in the issuance of building permits. It is also critical that such zoning structures be implemented through a consultative process with broad participation to ensure that they support all social circles.
A zoning plan is a comprehensive map of land use management with guidelines for its use, preservation and layout of regions and physical environments. Zoning plans shall be adopted by the municipal body, but maybe drawn up by both public and, in certain cases, private entities.
The level of accuracy will largely depend on the intent of the plan and whether further detailed zoning plans are developed for parts of the plan as the time of construction approaches.
Zoning plans shall always be formulated before approval is given for major building work. The municipality may incorporate a provision in the land use aspect specifying that zoning plans are to be established in other cases as well. The municipality shall determine the need to prepare zoning plans in the urban planning policy and the land-use portion of the urban master plan.
The zoning plans shall include a summary of the plan detailing the goals of the plan, its key substance and the impact of the plan. Descriptions of proposals that may have a substantial environmental impact or community shall be complemented by a separate evaluation and explanation of the consequences of the proposal almost like an environmental impact assessment.
The zoning plan implemented is binding for future land use in the city. This ensures that initiatives or events that are contradictory to the plan are not allowed unless exemption is given. The legal impact of the plan relates to the introduction of new projects, but planning regulations can also, in certain situations, contribute to tougher standards for current operations, such as noise regulations. If a building application is submitted in compliance with the zoning plan, it shall be granted only if the proposal complies with the plan and the regulations relating to the building application.
Zoning can be classified into residential, commercial, industrial, agricultural, Rural, combination zoning, historic zones and aesthetic Zoning.
Let us look at what comes under each of these heads:
It is the zone with single-unit or multi-family dwellings, commercial establishments may or may not be situated within these neighbourhoods. The area consists of multiple-unit buildings, high-rise apartment, districts and construction projects. A residential area can include temporary accommodation areas, such as motels and hotels, and residential areas with restricted commercial buildings, but may not include retail shopping facilities. A Residential zone covers hospitals, nursing homes and similar establishments.
Commercial Zoning comprises Office Buildings, Shopping malls, Nightclubs, Hotels, warehouses. The Commercial zoning legislation governs the type of operation that can be carried out by a business in a specific region and category of business that may occupy a zoned region.
The accessibility of parking can have an effect on the type of commercial area permitted. In addition, there could be regulations on the proximity of some kinds of enterprises to others. Many zoning regulations forbid or restrict adult entertainment facilities to a certain geographical area. Some prohibit certain activities over a certain distance of established schools or churches.
Industrial zoning is also widely used in areas containing factories, although this land is mostly for processing or manufacturing purposes. Some typical buildings in industrially-zoned areas include storage facilities, chemicals factories and even airports. Industrial zoning includes how much noise the establishment will make, any environmental concerns for the surrounding area and how much space the buildings will take up.
Agricultural zoning is mostly about preserving a parcel of land from non-farm use. There are many considerations involved in agricultural zoning, such as the suitable size of the property, the number of non-farm dwellings permitted, the users and activities permitted, the barrier dividing the farm, and no farm assets based on the size.
Agriculture zoning is not such a simple one because the laws in its policy need to take full force so that you do not fall out of the position when preserving it. For the farm, the same applies. Agriculture zoning is said to be a portion created to protect farmland and non-farmland activities which are not strong enough. The laws for the same are created by the local authority.
Zoning is undertaken to encourage local growth and urban planning. In 1965, a committee called Urban Land Policy was created with the objectives to achieve the best social use of urban land; to make land available to both public authorities and individuals in ample amounts, at the right time and at fair prices; encourage cooperative group efforts and legitimate individual developers in the field of land, housing and construction development; using land as a tool to fund economic growth by recovering the unearned income that mostly accrues to the owners of private land.
The landmark judgement of Delhi Pradesh Citizen Council Vs Union of India, 2006, the Supreme Court highlighted certain directions to be followed in terms of the kind of activities that cannot be held in residential areas which are as follows:
A residential area cannot have a banquet hall.
Any exchange or operation involving any type of product or method that is obnoxious, harmful, inflammable, non-compatible and polluting.
Retail Shops selling Liquor, Construction materials like timber, marble, iron, steel, sand, firewood, coal, hazardous materials and other bulky materials cannot be sold, Automotive repair and workshop repair shops, bike rickshaw repair, tyre solving and re-treading and battery charging;
With the exception of architects, chartered accountants, physicians and lawyers, technical practices would not be permissible. Even by these practitioners, no more than 50 percent of the allowable coverage in residential premises and by someone who does not live in those premises would be carried out by professional practice.
With this we can see that with the 'making of laws' the judiciary has always been strict, however, the enforcement of these laws need to still be worked upon.
Like any other laws, zoning regulations also face certain challenges such as limits on the power of government to control land use, some of which can provide a basis upon which such regulations may be challenged. Zoning ordinances must be rational based on all factors involved, such as the need of the municipality; the intent of the restriction; the location, size, and physical characteristics of the land; the character of the neighbourhood; and its effect on the value of the property involved. Zoning is based on the fact that in compliance with a comprehensive plan it serves the benefit of the whole city.
The zoning of individual land parcels in separate ways from the surrounding property, mainly for the private interests of the owner of the property so zoned shall, without fairgrounds, not be questioned. Restriction based on the exclusivity of property is prohibited and only if the government shows an overwhelming interest that cannot be served in any other way can classification which defines a racial or religious category be upheld.
The Laws also established zoning appeals boards in many jurisdictions to deal with these problems. They are quasi-judicial bodies that can conduct hearings with witnesses' sworn testimony and whose decisions are subject to judicial review. Given the complexities of zoning law and the peculiar nature of the zoning appeal boards, it is not advisable for the owner to argue his case without legal aid who challenges a zoning requirement.
It seems that India needs to move towards decentralized and strategic urban planning, as the United Kingdom has done. New changing demands need to be addressed by urban planning. In order to satisfy systemic and geographical transition demands, the planning structure must also be dynamic. "In order to promote inclusive urbanization, the government must consider urban planning development as a phase of value creation through the market, giving ample space for value capture and recycling.
In India, the method of allocating land usage focuses on land acquisition for public purposes (roads, parks, utilities etc). There is a displacement of property today, the allocation of land is coerced by the government through the Land Acquisition Act of 1894 for 'public purposes.' Land reform is required, particularly the demand for a financial regularization policy based on redistribution rather than displacement, excess land should be allocated for strategic reasons.
At the master plan level, land is purchased which is implemented in various states. Certain states also implement the land pooling process (area plan) in addition to the development plan (which is land use, legislation and particular projects) for the towns.
In order to optimize social welfare, harm must be avoided by separating the land uses that are incompatible with each other and simultaneously doing good by encouraging the promotion of the land.
The zoning can be changed in certain situations. Following are the ways in which one can apply for a change in zoning:
If the zoning on a plot of land is conflicting with the usage desired by the land owner, the landlord can request a change of zoning from the local jurisdiction. Every province has laws and regulations of its own. Usually, however, there is a request and a charge, followed by some kind of inquiry at which the applicant discusses the request and the reasons for the change requested. To express the proposed proposal, surveys, sketches, photos, and even models can be used. To help with the rezoning process, many owners employ engineers or attorneys. If the applicant is not successful in achieving the change, either through the administrative framework of the governing body or in a court of law, there may be an opportunity to appeal the decision.
A variance is a proposal to deviate from existing criteria for zoning. It allows the owner, if authorized, to use the property in a way not otherwise authorized by the zoning ordinance. It is not a modification of the zoning code. Instead, the zoning code is a clear waiver of conditions. It is instead a clear exception from the provisions of the zoning ordinance.
Usually, variances are issued where the owner of the property may show that the current zoning laws present practical challenges in making use of the property. Every township has regulations on variance requests. Usually, a landowner requesting a variance submits a request or written request for a variance and pays a fee. Normally, applications go to the zoning board first. The zoning board shall inform the neighbouring and adjacent owners of the properties. The Zoning examiner can then hold a meeting to decide if the variance should be issued. The applicant will then be expected to appear before the governing body of the municipality (such as the town council) for final ruling.
A nonconforming usage is the approved use of land that would otherwise be in breach of the existing zoning order. Usage is allowed when the property owner used the land or the building for that purpose before the zoning ordinance became effective. Non- nonconforming uses are sometimes referred to as being "grandfathered into a zoning code. In order to apply for nonconforming use, the property should have to have been continuously used for non-conforming use.
This method is quite similar to Variance where the permit holder is allowed the otherwise-prohibited use of a property that is not included in the zoning code. Conditional licenses of use are generally issued before a political body at a public hearing, usually concluding that the proposed use of the land would be in the public interest.
The authority of the government to seize and use private property for public purposes is known as Eminent domain. The typical public activities of building highways, government and public services, such as government buildings and parks, and the activities of more general gain through the preservation of scenic areas, wetlands and historic landmarks, are included in the public service. When the government zones a piece of land so that the owner may no longer use the parcel of land in successful fashion, the eminent domain can apply and the owner of a property may be entitled to seek compensation because the government has taken the land.
We will now look at the various zoning laws in the different cities in India:
The Mumbai Metropolitan Region is divided into the following 7 zones:
1) Urbanisable Zone (U)
2) Industrial Zone (I)
3) Institutional Zone (In)
4) Green Zone 1 (G1)
6) Forest Zone (F)
7) Coastal Wetlands Zone (CW)
The Urbanisable zone, Industrial Zone and Green Zone falling in the jurisdiction of Municipal Corporation, Municipal Council, Nagar Panchayat, Special Planning Authority or other Planning Authority, shall be developed in conformity with the Development Plans and Development Control Regulations of their respective jurisdictions.
The Master Plan of Delhi 2021has divided the city of Delhi into 10 different zones as under:-
Ridge/Regional Park
Public and Semi-public Facilities
10.Green belt and water body
The zones in Jaipur are designated as under:-
Urban Area (U1)
Residential.
Commercial (District center/Sub-city center/wholesale commercial) & mixed-use.
Government reserved areas.
Public and Semi-Public (Institutional, Medical, Public utility)
Recreational (Regional Park, District Park and Other Recreational).
Tourism Facility Zone.
Water Bodies, Natural drainage etc.
Circulation.
Urban Area (U2) Low-Intensity Zone High-Intensity Zone.
Transit Corridor Development Area (U3) Low-Intensity Zone High-Intensity Zone
Ecological Zone – G1, G2 and Ecological Area.
Rural Area
The zones in Bangalore are designated as under:-
Residential (R)
Commercial (C)
Industrial (I)
Transport and Communications (T&C)
Public Utilities (PU)
Public and Semi-public (PSP)
Public and Semi-public -Unclassified (PSP-UC)
Open Spaces (OS)
Agriculture (A)
The zones in Hyderabad are classified as under: –
Residential Use.
Public – Semi-Public Use – Govt offices, Institutions,
Schools, Hospitals.
Recreational Use – Parks, Play Grounds.
Traffic & Transportation Use.
Industrial Use.
Conservation Use – Waterbody, hillocks, CRZ
Agriculture Use.
The Proposed zoning under BDP 2031 Draft BDP 2031 is based on the pragmatic approach and are classified as under: –
For Residential and mixed-use areas.
Transit-Oriented Zone (TOZ)
Old City Heritage Zone (OC)
For Commercial areas
Special Planning Zone (SPZ1)
To Enable and support Industrial activities
Public Utility and Facility (PUF):
Public and Semi-Public (PSP):
Recreational Zone (G-1 to G-5)
Transportation (T)
Logistic, Warehouse & Wholesale (LW)
Water Bodies and Buffer Zones (W, WB, CZ-0 to CZ-2)
Village Abadi and their extension (VR &VRE)
We can see how in order to sustain a country's growth, zoning is necessary. It is zoning that contributes to planning in any city. This technology can be used to shape the future of a town or municipality through the development of unique facilities or the best use of the land. Zoning is the first step to the project assessment of any construction or development of any project. Although the rules for zoning differ widely from region to region, their popular goal is to distinguish the residential property from commercial properties. These provisions shall prohibit the building in the residential districts of oil refineries, processing plants or any kind of businesses. It thus becomes imperative to understand the zoning rights attached to the land.
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