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Justia Forms Business Contracts Lantern Pharma Inc. Addendum to Technology License Agreement dated February 8, 2016
Addendum to Technology License Agreement dated February 8, 2016, with AF Chemicals, LLC
Contract Categories: Intellectual Property - License Agreements
EX-10.12 20 ea120601fs1ex10-12_lantern.htm ADDENDUM TO TECHNOLOGYLICENSE AGREEMENT DATED FEBRUARY 8, 2016, WITH AF CHEMICALS, LLC
Exhibit 10.12
CERTAIN CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS DOCUMENT, MARKED BY [***], HAS BEEN OMITTED BECAUSE IT IS BOTH (i) NOT MATERIAL AND (ii) WOULD BE COMPETITIVELY HARMFUL IF PUBLICLY DISCLOSED.
FINAL VERSION 2/8/15
ADDENDUM TO
by and between
AF CHEMICALS LLC
LANTERN PHARMA, INC.
ADDENDUM TO TECHNOLOGY LICENSE AGREEMENT
This Addendum is attached to and forms part of the Technology License Agreement by and between Lantern Pharmaceuticals Inc., a Texas corporation (hereinafter referred to as "LANTERN") having principal offices at 4287 Beltline Rd., Suite #270, Addison, TX 75001 and AF Chemicals, LLC, a Californian Limited Liability Company having principal offices at 5545 Coral Reef, La Jolla, CA 92037 (hereinafter referred to as "AFC") as of February 8, 2016 (the "EFFECTIVE DATE") (hereinafter the "LANTERN AFC ADDENDUM"). LANTERN and AFC are sometimes each individually referred to hereinafter as a "Party" and collectively referred to hereinafter as the "Parties". To the extent that any of the terms or conditions contained in this LANTERN AFC ADDENDUM may contradict or conflict with any of the terms or conditions of the Technology License Agreement dated January 15, 2015, it is expressly understood and agreed that the terms of this LANTERN AFC ADDENDUM shall take precedence and supersede the Technology License Agreement.
WHEREAS, LANTERN has negotiated a license to the TARGETED COMPOUNDS, the COMPOUND and the PRODUCT;
Whereas AFC has rights to the TARGETED COMPOUNDS, the COMPOUND and the PRODUCT;
WHEREAS, LANTERN desires to acquire right, title and interest in and to the LICENSED TECHNOLOGY, the COMPOUND and the PRODUCT in the FIELD OF USE;
LANTERN and AFC have previously entered into the Technology License Agreement (effective January 15, 2015) (hereinafter the "AGREEMENT"), attached hereto as Exhibit D.
LANTERN and AFC now agree to this LANTERN AFC ADDENDUM to the AGREEMENT.
Now Therefore, in consideration of the foregoing premises and the mutual promises, covenants and conditions contained in this LANTERN AFC ADDENDUM, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the Parties agree as follows:
In this LANTERN AFC ADDENDUM, sections that are numbered using the same section number as employed in the AGREEMENT replace the corresponding section in the AGREEMENT. Sections in the AGREEMENT in which no corresponding numbered section is present in the LANTERN AFC ADDENDUM remain unchanged but shall be read in light of the LANTERN AFC ADDENDUM as a whole. Subsections in the AGREEMENT in which no corresponding numbered section is present in the LANTERN AFC ADDENDUM remain unchanged but shall be read in light of the LANTERN AFC ADDENDUM as a whole. As used in this LANTERN AFC ADDENDUM, capitalized terms, whether used in the singular or plural form, shall have the meanings set forth in the AGREEMENT, except that the following initially capitalized terms, whether used in the singular or plural form, shall have the meanings set forth in this ARTICLE 1.
1.3 "LICENSED TECHNOLOGY" shall mean any inventions disclosing the TARGETED COMPOUNDS excluding the COMPOUND and/or the PRODUCT.
1.13 "COMPOUND" shall mean the IROFULVEN composition and/or any pharmaceutically-active formulations of IROFULVEN in one or more patents listed in Exhibit A, (ii) together with rights in technical information recorded in the form of drawings, plans, specification, diagrams, trade secrets as defined by the Uniform Trade Secrets Act and other data relating to the manufacture, design and improvement of the IROFULVEN composition, but excluding IROFULVEN when bound directly or via a linker to all of the foregoing conjugates: an antibody, antibody fragment, peptide, growth factor, receptor proteins, receptor binding entity, lipids, liposomal particles, nanoparticles, PEG carriers, steroids, proteins, toxins, or another drug conjugate (hereinafter "Conjugates"). For clarity COMPOUND does not include all of the foregoing: illudin bound directly or via a linker to a Conjugate or acylfulvene bound directly or via a linker to a Conjugate, including an illudin analog bound directly or via a linker to a Conjugate, or acylfulvene analog bound directly or via a linker to a Conjugate.
1.14 "IROFULVEN" means (i) irofulven or 6-hydroxymethylacylfulvene (also known as HMAF or MGI-114 or IUPAC name, (6'R)-6'-hydroxy-3'-(hydroxymethyl)-2',4',6'-trimethylspiro[cyclopropane-1,5'-inden]-7'(6'H)-one or (5'R)-5'-hydroxy-1'-(hydroxymethyl)-2',5',7'-trimethylspiro[cyclopropane-1,6'-indene]-4'-one) (CAS No. 158440-71-2 and/or CAS 187277-46-9) (FDA UNII 6B799IH05A http://fdasis.nlm.nih.gov/srs/ProxyServlet?mergeData=true&objectHandle=DBMaint&APPLICATION_NAME=fdasrs&actionHandle=default&nextPage=jsp/srs/ResultScreen.jsp&TXTSUPE RLISTID=6B799IH05A), an alkylating DNA damage repair inhibitor, having molecular formula C15H18O3, and/or (ii) any salt, free acid, free base, clathrate, solvate, hydrate, hemihydrate, anhydride, chelate, conformer, congener, crystal form, crystal habit, polymorph, amorphous solid, homolog, isomer, stereoisomer, enantiomer, racemate, prodrug, isotopic or radiolabeled equivalent, complex or mixture of any of the foregoing with respect to IROFULVEN that has the same mechanism of action as IROFULVEN. For clarity, IROFULVEN includes the active pharmaceutical ingredient known as irofulven, together with any salt, free acid, free base, clathrate, solvate, hydrate, hemihydrate, anhydride, chelate, conformer, congener, crystal form, crystal habit, polymorph, amorphous solid, homolog, isomer, stereoisomer, enantiomer, racemate, prodrug, isotopic or radiolabeled equivalent, complex or mixture thereof. For the purposes of the AGREEMENT and this LANTERN AFC ADDENDUM, IROFULVEN does not include IROFULVEN analogs, illudin bound directly or via a linker to a Conjugate or acylfulvene bound directly or via a linker to a Conjugate, including an illudin analog bound directly or via a linker to a Conjugate, acylfulvene analog bound directly or via a linker to a Conjugate, IROFULVEN bound directly or via a linker to a Conjugate or Irofulven analog bound directly or via a linker to a Conjugate.
1.15 "PRODUCT" means any and all pharmaceutical preparations in finished form that contains the COMPOUND, alone or in combination with any other active pharmaceutical ingredient(s) or therapeutically or prophylactically active ingredient(s), in any formulation and any dosage strength suitable for administration to humans.
1.16 "ANNUAL LICENSING FEE' is a fee due annually to be paid by LANTERN to AFC on January 15th as specified in Exhibit B and Exhibit C.
1.17 "KNOW-HOW" means all tangible and intangible: (a) information, techniques, technology, practices, trade secrets, inventions (whether patentable or not), methods, knowledge, skill, experience, data, results (including pharmacological, toxicological and clinical test data and results, chemical structures, sequences, processes, formulae, techniques, research data, reports, standard operating procedures and batch records), analytical and quality control data, analytical methods (including applicable reference standards), full batch documentation, packaging records, release, stability, storage and shelf-life data, and manufacturing process information, results or descriptions, software and algorithms; and/or (b) compositions of matter, cells, cell lines, assays, animal models and any other physical, biological or chemical material, each to the extent owned or otherwise controlled (which, for purposes of this LANTERN AFC ADDENDUM, includes the ability to license) by AFC and related to the COMPOUND, including physical embodiments of the COMPOUND or PRODUCT. As used in this LANTERN AFC ADDENDUM, "clinical test data" shall include all information related to clinical or non-clinical testing, including patient report forms, investigators' reports, biostatistical, pharmaco-economic and other related analyses, regulatory filings and communications, and the like.
1.18 "LICENSED INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY" means the Licensed Know-How and the Licensed Patents.
1.19 "LICENSED KNOW-HOW" means all Know-How controlled by AFC or its Affiliates as of the Effective Date or at any time during the Term that is (a) necessary or useful for the research, Development, Manufacture and/or Commercialization of any COMPOUND or PRODUCT, or (b) incorporated or otherwise used in (including in the Manufacture of) any COMPOUND or PRODUCT.
1.20 "LICENSED PATENTS" means all Patents controlled by AFC or its Affiliates as of the January 15, 2015 or thereafter during the Term that claim the composition of matter of, or use, manufacture, distribution, sale or formulation of, any COMPOUND, including the patents and patent applications listed on Exhibit A.
2. LICENCE
2.3 Upon the terms and conditions set forth herein, AFC hereby grants to LANTERN an exclusive non-transferable and non-assignable license, under the Licensed Intellectual Property, to make, use, sell, import, offer to sell and Commercialize the COMPOUND and/or the PRODUCT solely in the FIELD OF USE in the LICENSED TERRITORY during the TERM, which grant shall include grants to make, use and sub-license , (subject to Section 2.4) the COMPOUND and/or the PRODUCT solely in the FIELD OF USE in the LICENSED TERRITORY during the TERM.
2.4 The REVENUE payable under either Exhibit B or Exhibit F to AFC will be increased [***] fold in the event of any challenge including an action in District Court or a proceeding before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board or the United States Patent and Trademark Office by LANTERN and/or a SUB-LICENSEE as to the validity of (i) any patent application or patent issuing from the COMPOUND and/or the PRODUCT, or (ii) any patent application filed on or before the date of the challenge to the validity, relating to an AFC ADC INVENTION, or (iii) any patent issuing on or before the date of the challenge to the validity, relating to an AFC ADC INVENTION.
2.5 Lantern expressly designates that OV shall make payments directly to AFC as provided in Exhibit F and Section 4.
2.6 AFC acknowledges that OV is a third party beneficiary of the AGREEMENT as per this LANTERN AFC ADDENDUM and as such that OV's rights and licenses to the COMPOUND and/or the PRODUCT shall not be restricted, impaired or diminished.
4. REVENUE
4.1 LANTERN agrees to pay to AFC the REVENUE received for the LICENSED TECHNOLOGY during the TERM of the AGREEMENT including the ANNUAL LICENSING FEE for the LICENSED TECHNOLOGY as prescribed in Exhibit C for the year 2016 and thereafter for the TERM of the AGREEMENT.
4.2 LANTERN acknowledges that Oncology Venture APS (hereinafter "OV"), (Company Registration no. 34 62 35 62) a Danish corporation having its principal offices at Venlighedesvej 1, 2970 Hørsholm, Denmark is a third party beneficiary of the AGREEMENT as per this LANTERN AFC ADDENDUM and as such that OV's rights and licenses to the COMPOUND and/or the PRODUCT shall not be restricted, impaired or diminished by this Agreement.
4.3 As consideration for AFC entering into a Stand-by License Agreement with OV (hereinafter the "AFC OV Stand-by License Agreement"), attached hereto as Exhibit E and for entering into this LANTERN AFC ADDENDUM, LANTERN agrees that OV shall make direct payments to AFC for the COMPOUND and/or the PRODUCTS as outlined in Exhibit F during the TERM of the AGREEMENT.
4.4 LANTERN agrees to pay directly to AFC the ANNUAL LICENSING FEE for the LICENSED TECHNOLOGY and COMPOUND and PRODUCTS as prescribed in Exhibit B and Exhibit C for the year 2017 and thereafter for the TERM of the AGREEMENT.
4.5 LANTERN agrees to pay to AFC any REVENUE for which OV was contracted to pay AFC for the COMPOUND and/or the PRODUCTS under Section 4.2 for the LICENSED TECHNOLOGY as outlined in Exhibit F during the TERM of this AGREEMENT, for which OV has for any reason not paid AFC.
4.6 LANTERN acknowledges and agrees that in the event that the payment of money, this AGREEMENT, or the grant of collateral should for any reason subsequently be declared to be "fraudulent" or "preferential" within the meaning of any state, federal, or foreign law relating to fraudulent transfers, fraudulent conveyances, preferences, or otherwise voidable or recoverable, in whole or in part, for any reason, under the United States Bankruptcy Code or any other federal, foreign, or state law (collectively referred to herein as "Voidable Transfer"), and AFC is required to pay or restore any such Voidable Transfer, or any portion thereof, then as to that which is repaid or restored pursuant to any such Voidable Transfer (including all costs, expenses, and attorneys' fees of AFC related thereto, including, without limitation, relief from stay, objection to claims, or similar proceedings, including, but not limited to, those arising under the United States Bankruptcy Code), the liability of LANTERN shall automatically be revived, reinstated, and restored to the extent hereof, and shall exist as though such Voidable Transfer had never been made to AFC,
4.7 Nothing set forth in this Agreement is an admission that such Voidable Transfer has occurred. LANTERN expressly acknowledges that AFC may rely upon the advice of counsel, and if so advised by counsel, may, in the exercise of their sole opinion and judgment, settle, without defending any action to void any alleged Voidable Transfer, and that upon such settlement, LANTERN shall again be liable for any deficiency resulting from such settlement as provided in this AGREEMENT.
4.8 As between AFC and LANTERN, LANTERN agrees to compensate AFC in full for all costs of storage and digitization of data required for AFC to fulfill the requirements of Section 2.3 relating to Licensed Intellectual Property. For clarity this includes the costs of access and digitization of the LP Data Package.
4.9 AFC confirms that it has reviewed the terms of the LANTERN-OV ADDENDUM dated February 8, 2016 and that LANTERN is authorized by AFC to grant the license to the LP Technology (as defined in the Lantern Pharma-OV License Agreement dated February 8, 2016) pursuant to the terms set forth therein.
4.10 LANTERN authorizes OV to make direct payments to AFC as outlined in Exhibit F, solely to the extent that OV is responsible to make the specified payments thereon to LANTERN under the Drug License and Development Agreement by and between LP and OV, dated as of May 23, 2015, as amended from time to time. LANTERN acknowledges and agrees that such direct payments to AFC (or any designee) shall reduce, dollar-for-dollar, the amounts which OV owes to LANTERN with respect to each such payment obligation specified in Exhibit F:
1) $[***] in connection with OV's obligation to pay a signing fee ($[***]) to Lantern (based on the [***]% royalty).
2) $[***]	in connection with Lantern's commitment of a $[***]	license fee for Irofulven in 2016.
3) $[***]	in connection with Lantern's commitment of a $[***]	license
4) $[***]	in connection with Lantern's ongoing commitment to pay the legal fees of AFC in negotiating (i) the AFC OV Stand-by License Agreement; (ii) Proprietary Information Agreement; (iii) addendum to Lantern Pharma-OV License Agreement; (iv) this AFC LANTERN ADDENDUM; and (v) Material Transfer Agreement.
5) $[***]	in connection with Lantern's ongoing commitment to pay the costs and fees of AFC supplying access to the LP Data Package this amount is to cover the January 25-26 inspection of the LP Data Package.
5.2 Failure of LANTERN to distribute REVENUE owed AFC within ninety (90) days of receipt of same or any failure to initiate or complete payments as specified in either Section 8.2 or Section 8.3 shall be a material breach of this AGREEMENT.
5.7 Failure of OV to distribute REVENUE to AFC in an amount in excess of five thousand dollars ($5,000) within ninety (90) days of said REVENUE being payable to LANTERN shall be a material breach of this AGREEMENT.
8. ASSIGNMENTS
8.2 A transfer or assignment of the LICENSED TECHNOLOGY license as outlined in Section 2.1 to a third party (hereinafter the 'Acquirer') shall require that the Acquirer make a Transfer Payment to AFC. The Transfer Payment will be [***] dollars ($ [***] ) where the Transfer Payment will be spread out over 5 years as follows: [***] dollars ($[***]) will be due within 30 days of the transfer or assignment of rights, with the residual due in four (4) equal installments of [***] dollars ($[***]) at yearly intervals on the anniversary of the transfer or assignment of rights. The Acquirer will be responsible for making the [***] dollars ($[***]) payment. The Acquirer remains responsible for all other payments outlined in Exhibit C (milestone and royalty payments) from the date of the transfer or assignment of rights.
8.3 Any event that results in a Change in Control of LANTERN to a third party irrespective of whether the third party is a person, an entity, a group of persons or entities (hereinafter the 'Purchaser') shall require that the Purchaser make a payment of [***] dollars ($[***]) to AFC as a result of the Change of Control. Payments will be spread out over 5 years as follows: [***] dollars ($[***]) will be due within 30 days of the Change of Control, with the residual due in four (4) equal installments (each up to [***] dollars ($[***]) at yearly intervals on the anniversary of the Change of Control. The Purchaser will be responsible for making the [***] dollars ($[***]) payment. OV will continue to be responsible for all other payments outlined in Exhibit B (milestone and royalty payments) after the date of the Change of Control as outlined in Sections 2.5 and 4.6. The Purchaser remains responsible for the payments outlined in Exhibit C (milestone and royalty payments) from the date of the change of control.
9. MISCELANEOUS
9.2 This AGREEMENT including the Exhibits thereto, and this LANTERN AFC ADDENDUM , including the Exhibits hereto set forth the entire understanding and obligation of the Parties with respect to the subject matter of the AGREEMENT and supersedes any and all prior or contemporaneous negotiations, representations, understandings and agreements, whether written or oral between the Parties. No amendment or modification of this AGREEMENT shall be valid or binding unless made in writing and signed on behalf of each of the Parties. Any amendment of the AGREEMENT and/or this LANTERN AFC ADDENDUM that restricts, impairs or diminishes OV's rights and licenses to the COMPOUND and/or the PRODUCT is expressly prohibited.
20. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY.
20.4 It is recognized and understood that AFC patents including the patents listed in Exhibit A relating to the COMPOUND and the PRODUCT are the separate property of AFC and the ownership of the AFC patents is only affected as explicitly recited in this AGREEMENT.
20.5 AFC shall have exclusive ownership rights to all inventions, discoveries, improvements, and modifications, as well as all methods, processes, Know-How and/or trade secrets arising from or conceived or reduced to practice during and as part of the research, development, formulation, marketing and sale of the all of the following: illudin bound directly or via a linker to a Conjugate, or acylfulvene bound directly or via a linker to a Conjugate, including an illudin analog bound directly or via a linker to a Conjugate, acylfulvene analog bound directly or via a linker to a Conjugate, IROFULVEN bound directly or via a linker to a Conjugate or Irofulven analog bound directly or via a linker to a Conjugate ("AFC ADC INVENTIONS") and regardless of whether generated by an AFC employee alone, a LANTERN employee alone, a SUB-LICENSEE employee alone, an AFC employee and a LANTERN employee jointly, an AFC employee and a SUB-LICENSEE employee jointly, a LANTERN employee and a SUB-LICENSEE employee jointly or any of the above combinations with others.
20.6 AFC shall be entitled to shop rights to any license or other technology acquired by LANTERN relevant to the COMPOUND and/or the PRODUCT.
Signature Page to Follow
In Witness Whereof, the Parties have executed this LANTERN AFC ADDENDUM in duplicate originals by the following signatures of their duly authorized officers as of the Effective Date.
AF Chemicals LLC Lantern Pharma, Inc.
By: /s/ Michael J. Kelner By: /s/ Arun Asaithambi
Michael J. Kelner, M.D. Arun Asaithambi
Managing Member Chief Executive Officer
Date: Date: 02-10-2016
Exhibit D	TECHNOLOGY LICENSE AGREEMENT signed January 15, 2015
Exhibit A	List of Licensed U.S. Patentsn
Exhibit B	Term Sheet for Lantern Pharmaceuticals - Irofulven
Exhibit C	Term Sheet for Lantern Pharmaceuticals - Analogs
Exhibit E	AFC OV Stand-by License Agreement signed February 8, 2016
Exhibit F	Schedule of Payments
Exhibit D
By and between LANTERN PHARMA, INC.
AF CHEMICALS, LLC
[to be appended pre-execution]
AFC OV Stand-by License Agreement
By and between AF CHEMICALS, LLC
ONCOLOGY VENTURE, APS
Dated February 8, 2016
Exhibit F
SCHEDULE OF PAYMENTS
The following is a list of ONCOLOGY VENTURE, APS (OV) payments to be made directly and in preference to AF Chemicals LLC (AFC) on behalf of Lantern Pharma, Inc. (LP) at the time of the applicable payment to LP under the relevant sections of the Drug License and Development Agreement by and between LP and OV, dated as of May 23, 2015, as amended February 8, 2016 and as further amended from time to time, as enumerated below:
1)	$[***] prior to any payment by OV to Lantern upon treatment of the first patient in a Phase 3 Clinical Trial of a Product under 6.2(a) ($[***]	payment plus an additional $ [***] payment - portion of the $[***]).
2)	$[***]	prior to any payment by OV to Lantern upon first Filing of Regulatory Approval in the U.S. of a Product under 6.2(c) ($[***]	payment plus an additional $ [***] payment - portion of the $[***]).
3)	$[***]	prior to any payment by OV to Lantern upon Regulatory Approval in the U.S. of a Product under 6.2(e) ($	[***]	plus an additional $ [***] payment to AFC - portion of the $[***]).
4)	$[***]	prior to any payment by OV to Lantern for the first Filing of Regulatory Approval in the EU under 6.2(b) ( [***]	payment plus an additional $ [***] payment - portion of the $[***]).
5) $[***]prior to any payment by OV to Lantern for Regulatory Approval in the EU of a Product under 6.2(d) ($ [***] (for Germany, France, UK) plus	[***]	payment plus an additional payment of $ [***] - portion of the $[***]).
6)	$[***] prior to any payment by OV to Lantern for the conclusion of a First Program Acquirer Agreement under Section 6.2(g) ([***] % of the $[***]	payment).
Note that LP remains responsible for the 2017 and subsequent yearly licensing payments for Irofulven and Irofulven Analogs


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Euro area sees record low inflation
Consumers benefit from lower prices but long-term deflation can harm the economy as a whole (Photo: EUobserver)
By Lucia Kubosova
One year after the global oil and food crises, which saw skyrocketing energy and food prices, the euro area is now reporting record low inflation as a result of the overall economic downturn.
According to figures by Eurostat, the EU's statistical office, published on Friday (14 August), the 16 states using the euro saw negative annual inflation of -0.7 percent in July, down from -0.1 percent in June.
Last summer, consumer prices rose four percent year-on-year, sparking discussions about the necessity of stabilising both oil and food prices as the two main areas boosting inflation.
But the current downturn is not only due to the high difference between this and last year's prices but chiefly as a result of the economic crisis still hindering Europe's economy.
Across the whole of the 27-strong bloc, consumer prices rose by a record low 0.2 percent compared to July 2009 (then plus 4.4 %) but fell by 0.5 percent when compare to figures for June this year.
Ireland (-2.6%), Belgium (-1.7%) and Luxembourg (-1.5%) saw the biggest slump in consumer prices, while Romanians (5%), Hungarians (4.9%) and Poles (4.5%) had to face the highest prices increases.
The price figures poured some cold water on the last week's data on Germany and France stepping out of recession. Economists warn that long-term deflationary pressure could further hamper overall economic activity by discouraging businesses to produce more and employ more workers or at least prevent lay-offs.
In the eurozone alone, the unemployment rate rose to a 10-year high to 9.4 percent in June, with 158,000 people losing their job from May to June, and some 3.17 million more people are out of work compared to June last year.
But analysts argue Europe is likely to avoid the long period of deflation seen in Japan the 1990s. "According to our last oil prices and exchange rate forecasts, eurozone inflation should have now bottomed out, but will remain negative until October," said Cedric Thellier, eurozone economist for French bank Natixis, AFP reported.
The European Central Bank (ECB), also anxious to avoid deflation, has said consumer prices were likely to fall for a few months mid-year but that price growth would resume later on.
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Europe's obsession with migration from Africa means it risks losing out the continent's potential when it comes to trade, says the EU's ambassador to the African Union, Ranier Sabatucci. "Africa is a growing continent, it is the future," he says.
EU agrees 2020 budget deal
EU governments and the parliament agreed in marathon talks ino next year's budget - which will boost spending on climate, border protection, and the European satellite system. It will also be a benchmark if there is no long-term budget deal.

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Q: Display data from database with Select Option Codeigniter first I want to apologize because I just learned Codeigniter, I have problems to display data from the database by using the Select Option, there is no error but the data does not appear, for your information, i have joined 3 tables.
Here's my Controller
class Harga extends CI_Controller{

function __construct(){
parent::__construct();
  $this->load->model('m_harga');
  $this->load->helper('url');
  $this->load->database();
}

function index(){
  $this->load->helper('form');
  $data['tabel_harga'] = $this->m_harga->tampil_data();
  $this->load->view('v_harga',$data);
}

Here's my Model
class M_harga extends CI_Model{
 function tampil_data(){
    $this->db->order_by('id_harga','ASC');
    return $this->db->from('tabel_harga')
    ->join('tabel_vendor','tabel_vendor.id_vendor=tabel_harga.id_vendor')
    ->join('tabel_hari','tabel_hari.id_hari=tabel_harga.id_hari')
    ->get()
    ->result();
}

and Here's my Views
<select class="form-control">
    <option value="">All</option>
      <?php
       foreach($tabel_harga as $u)
       {
        echo '<option value="'.$u['id_vendor'].'">'.$u['nama_vendor'].'</option>';
       }
      ?>
</select>

I will be very grateful if you help me, thank you guys.

A: The data doesn't appear probably because you're using result() which returns object and you're getting data as array in your view.
Model
class M_harga extends CI_Model{

    function tampil_data(){

        $this->db->select('*');
        $this->db->from('tabel_harga');
        $this->db->join('tabel_vendor','tabel_vendor.id_vendor=tabel_harga.id_vendor', 'INNER');
        $this->db->join('tabel_hari','tabel_hari.id_hari=tabel_harga.id_hari', 'INNER');
        $this->db->order_by('id_harga','ASC');

        $query = $this->db->get()->result_array(); // use result_array() instead of result() as you're getting value as an array in your view.

        return $query;
    }
}

Also, make sure to check $tabel_harga for values in your view ie
<select class="form-control">
    <option value="">All</option>
      <?php
          if(!empty($tabel_harga)){
              foreach($tabel_harga as $u){
      ?>
                  <option value="<?php echo $u['id_vendor']; ?>"><?php echo $u['nama_vendor']; ?></option>
      <?php
              }
          }
      ?>
</select>

Hope this helps you.

A: try this
view
<select class="form-control">
    <option value="">All</option>
      <?php
       foreach($tabel_harga as $u)
       {
        echo '<option value="'.$u->id_vendor.'">'.$u->nama_vendor.'</option>';
       }
      ?>
</select>

Models

class M_harga extends CI_Model{
 function tampil_data(){

     $this->db-join('tabel_vendor','tabel_vendor.id_vendor=tabel_harga.id_vendor')
     $this->db-join('tabel_hari','tabel_hari.id_hari=tabel_harga.id_hari')
     $this->db->order_by('id_harga','ASC');
     $sql = $this->db->get('tabel_harga');

     return $sql->result(); // returns an array of objects
}

controller
class Harga extends CI_Controller{

function __construct(){
parent::__construct();
  $this->load->model('M_harga');
  $this->load->helper(array('url','form'));
}

function index(){

  $data['tabel_harga'] = $this->M_harga->tampil_data();
  $this->load->view('v_harga',$data);
}

A: db->select("name, value");
$this->db->from('settings');
$query = $this->db->get();
if ($query->num_rows())
{
  foreach ($query->result_array() as $row)
  { // Your data is coming from multiple rows, so need to loop on it.
      $siteData[$row['name']] = $row['value'];
   }
   }
  return $siteData;
}

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The Art of Time Travel
The Resource The Art of Time Travel
The item The Art of Time Travel represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
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No matter how practised we are at history, it always humbles us. No matter how often we visit the past, it always surprises us. The art of time travel is to maintain critical poise and grace in this dizzy space.In this landmark book, eminent historian and award-winning author Tom Griffiths explores the craft of discipline and imagination that is history.Through portraits of fourteen historians, including Inga Clendinnen, Judith Wright, Geoffrey Blainey and Henry Reynolds, he traces how a body of work is formed out of a life-long dialogue between past evidence and present experience. With meticulous research and glowing prose, he shows how our understanding of the past has evolved, and what this changing history reveals about us.Passionate and elegant, The Art of Time Travel conjures fresh insights into the history of Australia and renews our sense of the historian's craft.Winner, 2017 Ernest Scott Prize. Shortlisted, 2017 NSW Premier's Literary Awards and the 2017 Colin Roderick Award'If the past is a foreign country, Tom Griffiths makes the perfect travelling companion. Erudite but honest. Generous yet discerning. Warm, perceptive and nothing if not elegant. Let him be your eyes and ears on our shared history. Most of all, follow his heart.' —Clare Wright, author, historian and winner of the Stella Prize'The Art of Time Travel should be in every school and library. I would design a senior history course out of it. In fact, I'd tell all students, no matter their disciplines, that if they were to imagine "the epic poem" of Australia, "the truest of histories", they might start with this book.' —Barry Hill, The Monthly'The Art of Time Travel is in fact a manifesto for a new understanding of Australia, a new sense of country.' —Nicolas Rothwell, The AustralianTom Griffiths is the W K Hancock Professor of History at the Australian National University and the author of Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to Antarctica (2007), Forests of Ash: An Environmental History (2001) and Hunters and Collectors: The Antiquarian Imagination in Australia (1996). His books and essays have won prizes in literature, history, science, politics and journalism, including the Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History, the Alfred Deakin Prize for an Essay Advancing Public Debate, and the Douglas Stewart and Nettie Palmer Prizes for Non-Fiction
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Just installed the latest build on Asus EeePad: Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Linux armv7l; rv:12.0a1) Gecko/20111225 Firefox/12.0a1 Fennec/12.0a1.
If I open "Impostazioni" (Settings) I get all strings in English, same thing if I try to use "Elimina impostazioni sito" (Clear Site Settings).
It's enough to rotate the screen to see all localized strings as expected.
Similar behavior on Samsung Galaxy S II with 2.3.3, so not just related to HoneyComb.
In this case the number of strings that always remain in English after a screen rotation is bigger: only "Bookmark" and "Other" are translated, menu displayed pressing "Other" is completely in English.
With 20111226 build "Request Desktop Site" is displayed localized, usually it changes after you create a new tab or switch to a different one.
Also all buttons on my Samsung Galaxy S II with 2.2.3 are localized after a screen rotation.
The only problem standing is the one described in the summary: initially Firefox is a mix of English and localized strings.
Sriram - Is this an inflation issue? Maybe something is racing?
Having the same problem for es-ES (tested both HTC Desire and Xperia Neo V, GB). Is there any chance this bug gets attention in a near future? I cannot test my translation properly, and I'd love to do it in the early stages of aurora cycle.
Stas, can you confirm this?
I can confirm this bug for Russian locale on HTC Desire with CyanogenMod 7.1.0 installed.
> stages of aurora cycle.
Rotating the screen doesn't work for you?
Also, if you can reproduce it, and look at adb logcat for anything surprising?
> > stages of aurora cycle.
> Rotating the screen doesn't work for you?
nope, menu pop-up stays in a mixed state (everything except "Bookmarks" ("Marcadores") in English if I rotate.
But in the Settings menu, rotation changes the language to es-ES.
Anything suspicious, no ERRORs in GeckoApp or related.
Well, if I rotate a few times the phone, it *maybe* change the language. Now I've seen everything translated in menu pop-up except "Bookmarks" (so inverted from my previous comments).
But still, not working with a simple rotation.
I know this is bugspam, but I just read the announcement in dev.l10n by Jeff about localizing Fennec11 (Native) and I think this bug should be fixed ASAP (or at least before transplanting aurora->beta if beta will go to the market as usual).
I can't test my language properly (I can blindly test comparing with en-US, but this is not ideal) and I've found a few string that doesn't fit in the screen and I needed to shorten them.
Ok, thanks for pointing this to me. Anyway, are you going to ship multilocale builds for Firefox for Android in the market? Or just single locales depending on the location provided by the Market?
We'll need the multi-apk for the amazon market, so we can't really ignore this bug.
Still not clear to me (I asked in the first comment): about:home is supposed to be in English or localized?
Take for example "Top Sites": it's localized in my repository but still displayed in English in the build, the rotation trick doesn't work here.
Even if we're going to ship single locale builds, I think it would be useful to give this bug a clear priority.
> to be in English or localized?
> displayed in English in the build, the rotation trick doesn't work here.
Since I'm unable to make multi-locale builds, I couldn't try testing this.
1. Bookmarks had two different strings ("Bookmark" and "Remove") which were changed based on whether the site was bookmarked or not. This was changing in code in java. Now, only one string "Bookmark" is being used.
2. I am not sure about "Request Desktop site". But I don't find that menu anymore.
Now, when the value is changed in code, the android tries to get "localized" string always. In this case, the localized string would be from en-US as the device might have been running on English (US) phones. Note: This is device wide locale.
Android cannot get localized strings based on Fennec's language (as the device's locale is still different). Fennec should request it to be run on a different locale than the system's, so that Android can do it for us. However, our current code doesn't support this. We only have "one" strings.xml file in res/values/ -- which will be the default resource used.
I am not sure if multiple resource folders (of form ab-CD) are generated and placed inside res/values. If they aren't then changing strings cannot happen.
Still, from the screenshots, and the recent code changes to menu, I believe this problem wouldn't exist anymore.
> this problem wouldn't exist anymore.
Request Desktop site is gone, menus changed structure but the problem is still the same (ALL preferences and dialogs are displayed in English until you do a screen rotation, sometimes more than one).
I could see the preferences start in English and change to the language after rotation. But the menus were working fine for me.
I am unable to build a multi-locale clone. I tried setting the device language to French and loading the app (ideally getLocale() should return French, though resources will be in english).
Both for preferences and awesome-screen, when the activity first loads it says English. On rotation, it says French. I am unable to understand what is causing the issue for the same.
https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/tip/mobile/android/base/GeckoThread.java#l86 - This piece of code is confusing me. Does this set the locale to entire application or just the activity?
The "setSelectedLocale()" method is still called from Gecko side.
Earlier we had an option to run Firefox in a language other than system's language.
However, this is not supported as of now.
Gecko resets the locale to en-US by calling this function with an empty string.
This affects GeckoPreferences activity in multi-locale builds by making it start in en-US (as the locale is reset).
With this fix, fennec wouldn't have issues with multi-locales.
>Bug 713464: Application Locale should not be reset from CPP.
>+        /* Bug 713464: This method is still called from Gecko side.
>+           Earlier we had an option to run Firefox in a language other than system's language.
>+           However, this is not supported as of now.
>+           Gecko resets the locale to en-US by calling this function with an empty string.
Can you add a trailing */ at the end of this line?
Pushed to inbound with required changes.
Should there be a follow-up to comment out the locale setting code in https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/tip/mobile/android/base/GeckoThread.java#l86, too?
Leaving open for comment 26.
The locale setting code in GeckoThread.java does not harm now. I would like to keep it as it is until we know for sure the multi-locales are working fine.
Multi-locale builds will show Preferences screen in English and then change to system's locale on rotation. This will cause confusion to users.
Risk to taking this patch (and alternatives if risky): None. Gecko is aware of the locale that the device is in. We are just blocking it from overwriting the locale.
Attachment #592969 - Flags: approval-mozilla-aurora?
> Since I'm unable to make multi-locale builds, I couldn't try testing this.
why are you unable to make multi-locale builds?
Somehow different locales aren't being packed when i build and do | make package |. Not sure what am i doing wrongly.
Approved for Aurora 12 and Beta 11.
I believe this still needs to be fixed on Beta 11.
sorry can not confirm it, i did not installed the multi version i noticed  today.
i can not find a aurora multi build.


I have a 30" Cinema Display attached to my 17" MacBook Pro, and often when I return to the computer after the screensaver has kicked in, I find that my display has reverted to some default ColorSync setting rather than my calibrated, gamma 2.2 profile. The visual effect is that the screen is brighter and bluer than I'd left it.
So far so good—I appear to be free from the forces that seek to revert me to -blech- gamma 1.8 land.
Whenever I encounter weirdness with Apple OSs or apps, I try to report them at apple.com/feedback. Who knows if it helps, but almost all the issues I reported about my iPhone became fixes in later firmware revisions.


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Distinctly different from the grim, violent, and dark MIRAGE comics from which the Turtles originated, this version of the franchise has remained the longest running, and most memorable, version of all. Four turtles fall into the sewers and are befriended by Hamato Yoshi a Japanese man sent to New York who was forced to live in the sewers. One day he sees a strange green glow which transforms the four turtles into human-like creatures. Hamato (now Master Splinter) changes into a giant rat from the green glow and teaches the turtles the skills of the ninja as they team up with Channel 6 news reporter April O'Neil to battle against Yoshi's arch enemy Shredder and Krang, an alien warlord from Dimension X.
Animation | Comedy | Action & Adventure | Kids
Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir 2015
Normal high school kids by day, protectors of Paris by night! Miraculous follows the heroic adventures of Marinette and Adrien as they transform into Ladybug and Cat Noir and set out to capture akumas, creatures responsible for turning the people of Paris into villains. But neither hero knows the other's true identity – or that they're classmates!
Animation | Family | Action & Adventure | Kids
The Fairly OddParents 2001
The Fairly OddParents is an American animated television series created by Butch Hartman for Nickelodeon. The series revolves around Timmy Turner, a 10-year old boy who is granted two fairy godparents named Cosmo and Wanda. The series started out as cartoon segments that ran from September 4, 1998 to March 23, 2001 on Oh Yeah! Cartoons and was later picked up as a series. The series is produced by Frederator Studios and, as of season 6, Billionfold, Inc. For the first four seasons, it was distributed outside the United States by the Canadian company, Nelvana International. Having aired for more than 16 years, The Fairly OddParents is the longest-running fantasy TV series in American television history, and currently stands as Nickelodeon's second longest-running animated series (behind SpongeBob SquarePants).
Animation | Comedy | Kids | Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Paw Patrol 2013
A group of six rescue dogs, led by a tech-savvy boy named Ryder, has adventures in "PAW Patrol." The heroic pups, who believe "no job is too big, no pup is too small," work together to protect the community. Among the members of the group are firedog Marshall, police pup Chase, and fearless Skye. All of the animals have special skills, gadgets and vehicles that help them on their rescue missions. Whether rescuing a kitten or saving a train from a rockslide, the PAW Patrol is always up for the challenge while also making sure there's time for a game or a laugh.
Animation | Family | Kids
Tom and Jerry 1940
Tom and Jerry is a series of theatrical animated cartoon films created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, centering on a rivalry between a cat and a mouse whose chases include slapstick comedy.
Animation | Comedy | Kids
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic 2010
"Get your muzzle out of those books and make some friends!" That's what Princess Celestia tells Twilight Sparkle. She may be the smartest unicorn in Equestria, but Twilight Sparkle gets an "incomplete" in friendship. There's more to life than learning magic, after all -- so she goes to Ponyville on a mission to make friends. There she meets five special ponies who take her on exciting adventures and teach her the most powerful magic of all ... the magic of friendship!
Animation | Comedy | Family | Kids | Sci-Fi & Fantasy
I am Luna 2016
Luna leads a happy life in Mexico where she enjoys skating. Her life change overnight when a wealthy woman offers Luna's parents a job in Argentina and also to pay an elite school for Luna. Luna and her family moves to Argentina. She should start a new life, makes new friends, but soon she discovers the Jam & Roller, a rollerskating club, where she can not only prove her talent on wheels, but also on the stage singing. And that's not all, Luna is adopted and her parents have never kept her adoption a secret. However, Luna is suddenly overtaken by her past after moving to Argentina.
Kids | Soap
Peppa Pig 2004
Peppa Pig is an energetic piggy who lives with Mummy, Daddy, and little brother George. She loves to jump in mud puddles and make loud snorting noises.
Animation | Kids
Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 2006
Mickey Mouse Clubhouse is an American animated television series, that premiered in prime time on Disney Channel on May 5, 2006. The program was originally part of the Playhouse Disney daily block intended for preschoolers. On February 14, 2011, it was moved to the Disney Junior block, serving as Playhouse Disney's replacement. It is the only Mickey Mouse program to be aimed at preschoolers. The series was co-developed by Bobs Gannaway, who is also responsible for Jake and the Never Land Pirates. Production of the show was put on a four-month suspension in the spring of 2009, due to the death of voice artist Wayne Allwine, the longtime voice of Mickey Mouse. Production resumed when Bret Iwan has been cast as the fourth performer of Mickey's voice. On June 23, 2013, Bill Farmer, the voice actor for Goofy and Pluto, confirmed on his official Twitter account that Mickey Mouse Clubhouse would cease production after 7 years of episodes. However, reruns will still continue on the Disney Junior 24/7 service.
Super Dragon Ball Heroes 2018
Trunks returns from the future to train with Goku and Vegeta. However, it disappears without warning. Then the mysterious Fu bursts in, telling them that Trunks has been imprisoned in the Prison Planet, a mysterious complex in an unknown place in the universes. The group seeks the dragon balls to free Trunks, but an endless battle awaits them! Will Goku and the others rescue Trunks and escape the Prison Planet?
Ben 10 2005
Ben 10 was an American animated series created by Man of Action, and produced by Cartoon Network Studios. The series is about a 10 year old boy named Ben Tennyson who gets a watch-like alien device called the "Omnitrix". Attached to his wrist, this allows him to transform into various alien creatures. The pilot episode aired on December 27, 2005, as part of a sneak peek of Cartoon Network's Saturday morning lineup. The second episode was shown as a special on Cartoon Network's Fridays on January 13, 2006, and the final regular episode aired on April 15, 2008. The series gradually became popular among audiences, evolving into a franchise, being nominated for two Emmy Awards, winning one for "Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation". Ben 10 was succeeded by Ben 10: Alien Force, which itself was succeeded in April 2010 by Ben 10: Ultimate Alien. A new series called Ben 10: Omniverse premiered in September 2012.
Animation | Action & Adventure | Comedy | Kids
Kim Possible 2002
Kim Possible is an American animated action-adventure comedy television series about a teenage crime fighter who has the task of dealing with worldwide, family, and school issues every day. The show is action-oriented, but also has a light-hearted atmosphere and often lampoons the conventions and clichés of the secret-agent and action genres. It marked the second animated Disney Channel Original Series, and was the first series to be produced by Walt Disney Television Animation, in association with Disney Channel. Kim Possible was the Disney Channel's longest running original animated series until it was surpassed by Phineas and Ferb.
Masha and the Bear 2009
Masha is an energetic three-year-old who can't seem to keep herself out of trouble. Bear is a warm, fatherly figure that does his best to guide his friend and keep her from harm, often ending up the unintended victim of her misadventures.
Dora the Explorer 2000
Dora the Explorer is an American educational animated TV series created by Chris Gifford, Valerie Walsh, and Eric Weiner. Dora the Explorer became a regular series in 2000. The show is carried on the Nickelodeon cable television network, including the associated Nick Jr. channel.
Popeye the Sailor 1960
Popeye the Sailor is an animated TV series produced for ABC through King Features Syndicate that ran from 1960 to 1962 for 220 episodes. Episodes were animated by various production studios: Larry Harmon Pictures, Rembrandt Films/Halas and Batchelor, Gerald Ray Studios, Jack Kinney Productions and Paramount Cartoon Studios. The executive producer of the series was Al Brodax.
PJ Masks 2015
Connor, Greg and Amaya are normal kids by day, but at night they activate their bracelets, which link into their pajamas and give them fantastic super powers, turning them into their alternate identities: The PJ Masks. The team consists of Catboy (Connor), Gekko (Greg) and Owelette (Amaya). Together, they go on adventures, solve mysteries, and learn valuable lessons.
Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears 1985
Join the world's sweetest heroes for high adventure in a mystical land of giants and wizards, ogres and dragons, and wondrous creatures both good and evil. Meet Gruffi, Zummi, Cubbi, Grammi, Tummi, Sunni, and all the legendary Gummis as they laugh, play, foil dastardly plots, and fight for what's right.
Moomin 1990
In the remote and mysterious Moomin Valley live the Moomin trolls, gentle and peaceful creatures. Young Moomin and his family experience many strange adventures, both magical and mundane. Based on the children's stories by Tove Jansson.
Animation | Comedy | Family | Kids
Are You Afraid of the Dark? 1992
Are You Afraid of the Dark? is a joint Canadian-American horror/fantasy-themed anthology television series. The original series was a joint production between the Canadian company Cinar and the American company Nickelodeon. The show was filmed in Richmond, British Columbia and in Montreal, Quebec including their suburbs. The episode "The Tale of the Twisted Claw" was aired as a pilot on the evening of October 31, 1991 in the USA and in October 1990 in Canada. Are You Afraid of the Dark? was aired from August 15, 1992 to April 20, 1996 on Nickelodeon's SNICK. The series also aired on the Canadian television network YTV from October 30, 1990 until June 11, 2000. A revived series with new directors, writers, and cast was produced by Nickelodeon from 1999 to 2000 and also aired on SNICK. The sole member from the original lineup to return for the sixth and seventh seasons was Tucker, although Ross Hull returned for the concluding miniseries, which notably broke from the show's established format by blurring the line between story and "reality".
Drama | Mystery | Kids
Dinosaur Train 2009
Dinosaur Train is an American animated series created by Craig Bartlett. The series features a curious young Tyrannosaurus Rex named Buddy who, together with his adopted Pteranodon family, takes the Dinosaur Train to meet, explore, and have adventures with all kinds of dinosaurs. It is produced by The Jim Henson Company in association with Media Development Authority, Sparky Animation, FableVision, and Snee-Oosh, Inc. It is the second show by The Jim Henson Company to use CGI animation.
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Those of you who were following my blog know it has not been updated in almost a year. While there are many excuses there are no reasons. Mary, Keela and I are just as committed to cruising as before and have been actively traveling between Florida and Nova Scotia CANADA.
Our original plan was to bring this boat back to Mexico and we were actually on the way just after purchase. Fate interviened (more later) and we decided to cruise the east coast for a season. Well this will be our second season here and still have not seen 20% of the available ports.
With over 1,000 hours on N57 WORKNOT I'm glad we took the risk and made the effort to get another cruising boat in order. While it has been a major task, expense and had its moments of wondering "WHY DID I CHANGE BOATS?" It's been a great improvement in comfort.
A few quick facts on the difference: N57 is only 7 feet longer than N50. N50 weighed 80,000#. N57 just under 120,000#. N57 enjoys a flybridge that N50 did not have. Twin generators assure A/C power when the other genset is down. N50 with a single genset means you will fix it now in a hot, rolly and more cramped engine room.
This is one of my favorite pictures of WORKNOT. At anchor, at peace, sun rising on another day and ready for what comes next. This one was taken in Nova Scotia last year.
Over the next few weeks I'll recap some of the highlights of our past seasons cruising and work to return to real time updates. Tonight we are a little ahead of the southbound migration fleet here in Brunswick Landing Georgia. For the Nordhavn crowd there are 2 other N57's, N55 and N46 at the marina.


The first games take place this weekend in the National Ice Hockey League (NIHL) while there are also pre-season games featuring NIHL sides.
Lee Valley Lions host Swindon Wildcats in the NIHL South 2 Cup (17.30), while League play gets underway in North Division 2 at Skydome where Coventry Blaze play Blackburn Eagles (19.30).
Sunday's games see play begin in NIHL North 1. Newly promoted Dragons welcome Billingham Stars to Deeside (17.45) before Solihull Barons host Sutton Sting (18.00). There's a pair of games in the slate in North 2 as Widnes Wild begin their league campaign at home to Hull Jets (17.30) and Nottingham Lions play Sheffield Senators (19.30).
As far as challenge games go, North 1 league and playoff champions Blackburn Hawks started the pre-season on Friday night going down 10-0 at EPIHL Sheffield Steeldogs. The two sides meet again at Blackburn Arena on Sunday (17.45).
Saturday night in Streatham sees a special pre-season game for the home side – complete with new nickname RedHawks – face an All Star team selected by Dave Carr, formerly of that parish, raising funds for Breast Cancer Care. Streatham Ice Rink have donated the ice time, EIHA have registered the 'All Stars' so as much money as possible can be donated to the charity. Face off on the Streatham High Road is 5.30pm with doors opening at 5pm.
Bracknell Hornets and Chelmsford Chieftains play a home-and-home series across the weekend, starting in Bracknell on Saturday night (18.00) with the return in Chelmsford the following night (18.30).
Bristol Pitbulls travel to Milton Keynes on Sunday for a pre-season test with MK Thunder (18.30).
If you're going to a game this weekend let us know on our social media (@EIHA_Official on Twitter) and we may give you a mention.


San Francisco, California. September 5, 2018 – Beverage Trade Network today announced the results of the 2018 USA Wine Ratings competition. Overall, the panel of judges in San Francisco recognized 248 medal winners in a broad variety of categories, including Wine of the Year, Winery of the Year, Best in Show by Country and Best in Show by Varietal.
The highest-scoring wine in the competition was Reserve Merlot (2015 vintage) by St. Francis Winery & Vineyards in Sonoma, California, which received 95 out of a possible 100 points. St. Francis Winery also tied for the second highest-scoring wine in competition (2015 Reserve Zinfandel), which resulted in St. Francis Winery also being named 2018 Winery of the Year. Other Gold medal winners at the USA Wine Ratings included wines from Argentina, Australia, France, Italy, New Zealand, Spain and the United States.
Entries in the USA Wine Ratings competition were blind-tasted and judged by a high-profile panel of judges, who assessed the wines in competition on the basis of three primary criteria: Quality,.Value, and Package. All wines were scored on a 100-point scale that assigned relative weights to each of these three criteria. Wines that scored 90+ points were awarded Gold medals, wines that scored 80 to 89 points were awarded Silver medals and wines that scored 70 to 79 points were awarded Bronze medals. Overall, 29 wines received Gold medals, 98 received Silver medals and 99 received Bronze medals.
The USA Wine Ratings was launched in late 2017 by Beverage Trade Network, which organizes wine industry events all over the world. The goal of this event was to judge wines the way consumers judge them. In contrast to other wine competitions, where winemaking ability and technical expertise sometimes receive primary consideration at the expense of drinkability, the goal of the USA Wine Ratings was to award and celebrate the wines that wine drinkers actually want to buy, whether at a retail wine store or ordering off the menu at a restaurant.
At this year's competition, two surprise Gold medal winners included a 2017 Cuvee Dolette from Domeniile Viticole Tohani in Romania (90 points) and a 2016 Tempranillo from Boeger Winery in Colombia (90 points). "The fact that judges were able to recognize these two wines from emerging wine regions is further evidence that our mission of recognizing world-class wines from around the world is already having a real impact," said Sid Patel of Beverage Trade Network.
USA Wine Ratings is an annual international wine competition organized by Beverage Trade Network. The competition singles out and shines the spotlight on those wine brands that consumers really want to buy and have a clear market value for trade buyers. The wines are judged, scored and awarded based on its quality, value for money and packaging.


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Historic conviction brings long-awaited justice in Guatemala
The conviction of Guatemala's ex-president General Efraín Ríos Montt for genocide and crimes against humanity during his time in office is a historic step in the nation's long struggle for justice, Amnesty International said today.
Ríos Montt was convicted and sentenced to 80 years for his role as the intellectual author of the killings of 1,771 individuals and the forced displacement of tens of thousands more from the Ixil triangle region of southern Quiché department in 1982 and 1983 in the midst of Guatemala's internal armed conflict.General José Mauricio Rodríguez Sánchez, Ríos Montt's head of intelligence during his time in power, was found not guilty of the same charges."With this conviction, Guatemala leads by example in a region where entrenched impunity for past crimes sadly remains the norm," said Sebastian Elgueta, Guatemala Researcher at Amnesty International."Guatemala must now follow up on this historic moment by ensuring that all those who took part in the murder, torture, rape and disappearance of tens of thousands of people are brought to justice."A UN-backed truth commission found that some 200,000 people were killed or disappeared during Guatemala's 36-year civil war (1960-1996). More than 80 per cent were of indigenous Mayan descent.Despite recent efforts to strengthen justice and accountability for past abuses, the Guatemalan armed forces remain uncooperative when it comes to investigations of violations committed during the armed conflict.The army continues to refuse to provide information to investigations into killings, enforced disappearances, the use of rape as a weapon of war, and other crimes committed during the conflict. The failure to provide any documentation places a huge burden on families and victims who pursue justice, or are simply seeking to find the whereabouts of their disappeared loved ones."Today's conviction should serve as a reminder to the current government of its duty to victims of the war. The President should use this opportunity to ensure genuine cooperation of the army with investigations into past crimes."
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peter January 19, 2021, 4:55pm #1
In the new streaming app under development, one of the current menu items is "discovery" which could immediately remind listeners of "discover weekly" by you know who.
As soon as one hits a thesaurus, different ontological questions begin to arise. For me, there's also an itch that can't quite be scratched… if we're trying to evolve the economics behind streaming, should we not also evolve the very concepts of music discovery as well?
So lets start a discussion on this… @auggod would you feel like posting a screenshot of the menu, or even the discovery page itself? (Totally understand if you'd like to keep it under wraps for now!)
RobertaFidora January 19, 2021, 5:41pm #2
I can't remember if I mentioned it before or not, but I always thought it could be interesting to have a map (which may open up an avenue with the fun, more human illustration style shown in one of the other threads). Then it might differentiate from both the corporate streaming way of displaying new music and the location tag system in use elsewhere, but in a more imaginative, community-focused way.
I guess I always imagine scenes of people when I think of different styles of music and how place influences that. Realistically, it's probably a really hard thing to put into practice, but I wondered if it might help with the wording, then you would feel like you're walking into spaces defined by those sounds, rather than scrolling through a platform. I've read about a few mapping experiments with you know who, but they only seem to be short-lived, publicity-driven projects rather than an ongoing archive or attempt at building a community. Happy to email some examples if relevant.
The idea is BRILLIANT @RobertaFidora!
Of course, never in a million years with the Evil Beast that shall not be named. However, this would certainly work:
OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.
@auggod I can't imagine it being too hard to add geo points based on artists stated location?
Would be amazing to do a little tour around the world, where you have to manually explore different regions, zooming in, moving the map around until you find a new cluster… or an isolated artist. Imagining this makes me realize how much streaming feels virtual, as if coming from some imaginary realm, rather than a studio or a house in specific locations. This map idea of yours @RobertaFidora solves that for me!
auggod January 19, 2021, 7:51pm #4
I guess we can just use opencage (https://opencagedata.com/) to geocode locations (cities) then we can use leaflet with openstreetmap and carto (https://carto.com/) for the tiles. i have good experience using leaflet. we can have clusters, heatmaps.
The discussion about the discovery page started here on github: 2.0 Discovery · Issue #54 · resonatecoop/resonate · GitHub
There's a link to the design (figma)
Well, this is all really excellent and positive to read! I thought of a couple of further considerations to this idea, extending the sharedness aspect:
Obviously, there may be musicians who might not feel comfortable with opting in and perhaps that could be covered with an "off the grid", "random" or "lucky dip" button (maybe illustrated by a little planet/periscope/question mark or something so it's still exciting to find something new and people don't feel excluded if they don't want to share their location).
The other benefit is that a map isn't a fleeting selection that disappears quickly or becomes old news and it isn't so hierarchical in that way, so as an artist in that system, where you can move side to side rather than between older and newer, there's always the chance someone could find you (which reminds me of some of the older internet projects aggregating videos or songs that have "never been seen", etc. - they're kind of fun). However, you could also build in sub groups if you really wanted to, so if the area is London, you can have subcategories of "new sounds", "all sounds" or later on "Resonate editorial" - which might encourage musicians in different music scenes to contribute pieces about their local ecosystem and pave the way for other commentaries on local cultures from music writers.
If artists tag themselves with multiple locations (so if they started making music in one place and then moved elsewhere), you can see how music scenes cross-pollinate and which places intersect, which might help provide more context about their work. To add to this, if anyone wanted to find "related music" after listening to one artist, this could potentially make it easier (and be freeing for anyone reluctant to classify their sound with strict genre labels).
I vaguely recollect seeing something about a radio show or podcast from Resonate to highlight new releases and saw another thread on the forum about Last.fm, which allows users to tag by place and listen to radio stations based on those tags. Don't know if appropriate or not, but could be interesting to be able to listen to different regions and cities. Also kind of inspired by this project, which maps the areas served by different stations: https://www.pirateradiomap.com
I'm conscious of the whole attention economy thing, but feel that maybe this is more aligned with the ritual of going to a record shop and flicking through the categories until something catches your eye or visiting a new city and looking at the gig listings rather than the aforementioned "stats and rankings" maps that other companies have used.
And absolutely, I love the idea that someone who's making music in an extremely remote location might be able to find collaborators they didn't know existed, or that a listener somewhere else in the world could visit that remote place through the sounds produced there.
Hakanto January 19, 2021, 10:22pm #7
Y'all ever seen Radio Garden? A literal globe of Earth that you spin and click on various radio stations. It's wonderful.
Been glitchy on Brave browser lately, but works well on Firefox.
I love the idea that someone who's making music in an extremely remote location might be able to find collaborators they didn't know existed, or that a listener somewhere else in the world could visit that remote place through the sounds produced there.
On that theme, there's a radio station I found via Radio Garden up in Longyearbyen, essentially the furthest north town on the planet! Arctic Outpost Radio – It's existence feels like a legend in itself! It exclusively plays old tunes from the ~1930s-50s which makes it even more enigmatic to me.
Definitely different from hearing music written in Longyearbyen, but still gave me a fascinating feeling of connecting to a place I'd never connected to.
Nick_M January 19, 2021, 10:41pm #9
On discovery, also see this thread:
Quick Fixes! Community conversations
Hi @onapoli Also worth mentioning in this thread that we have an exciting proposal in for EU funding on a search and discovery feature that proposes @Hakanto's Segue feature as an early step in joint work between FutureModern and Resonate on Aeria: aeria is an open-source standard for human-led, AI-augmented music discovery based on immersive, dynamic data visualization. using advanced internetworked data visualization techniques, it displays music, artists and fandoms in virtual music featur…
Aeria is a cool project proposed by a @afuturemodern … with a 'galactic' cloud metaphor for music discovery…
RobertaFidora January 19, 2021, 10:59pm #10
Oh wow. This is GREAT!
auggod January 19, 2021, 11:26pm #11
I think we give too much importance to whatever has been done before in the short existence of the streaming era.
For me, the best findings in music are often very fortuit. Whatever tools can help, ok but there's only a very small chance it will find anything worthy for me. That does not happen every day or every month.
The discovery page on Resonate is not some fancy tool you should use to find the next sound you'll want to listen all day long but rather, at least give some idea of what up with Resonate at the moment.
I guess, it's just badly named so let's find another term if you want but I never heard of that discover weekly thing. Discovery is the title of an album by Daft Punk too.
Radio-ish, i'm fine with this.
@hakanto I like that radio.garden site, too bad they messed up ssl support.
duracell80 January 20, 2021, 4:22am #13
As a listener on you know which platform … I value the links between artists more than the discover playlist itself.
So over there in that world you can jump between "similar artists" that are more nuanced than it might first appear. Sometimes it's driven by collabs. So in my exploration of electronic dance music I may end up at say an acoustic cover of Dreams by Lissie because of Morgan Page or Kommode from Royksopp and those two styles of music are radically different but linked by a collaboration.
It's definitely something evident where musicians collaborate with vocalists.
There are local scenes in real life but more often than not you're going to see leaps in geography of thousands of miles that can link a random Welsh town to a beach in California.
Music scenes themselves are very incestuous. So if you're trying to explore a genre often the navigation of that scene is who worked with who.
The best way I find these links in a genre? Wikipedia. To that end you don't need an extensive catalogue because that database is universal, it's wikipedia. Think about the experience in a record store and crate digging, more often than not you're engaged in a conversation with a "linker" someone with some knowledge who can say oh ok so you should listen to Snowmine, and you never would have got there without that interaction.
Nick_M January 20, 2021, 12:10pm #14
Yes +1 for Wikipedia! This is also topical because in the works for some time we have had a design for a 'feeds' page: As a user (listener / artist / label… anyone) can 'subscribe' to others' profiles and their music in different ways: follow / recommend so they can share their interests and also get a feed of 'events' - new public playlists, artists they recommend. See this issue on our Github.
We also have a generic way of capturing 'member of' / 'works with' relationships and of course links to other platforms, or wiki, where users can put down the 'breadcrumbs' to be found by visitors to their profile page.
This could become something of a 'social graph', where privacy becomes a big concern, so we are thinking of doing this in a privacy-respecting way, with privacy permissions each way between the followed and the follower, and control over what is shared in 'public'.
We have to be realistic though… wiki is a huge (and ethical) source to tap into and there is no point in recreating it, or expecting users to maintain it when they have already done a good job on their wiki page or their own website, which we would simply link to. We can perhaps supplement that experience with tools to navigate our own co-operative community in a decent, ethical way.
I wonder if we could/should look at Wikipedia as a preferred 'discovery partner' in some way?
Discovery could also be powered by the creative passport. The thing I like about wikipedia is that it's more organic and in-depth. With biographies there's an enrichment also in getting to know artists.
What about some tensor flow thing that could pick names out of an artists biography? With a possibility to date an era of an artist also … Take Ani Difranco, going to the start of the discography there are different intensities compared to later era's of that material.
Something my wife said to me, she likes Pandora vs Spotify because Pandora seemed more organic and less trapped in a bubble.
I wonder if that kind of enrichment of artist information could be possible here.
Yes … Exactly the sort of thing that @afuturemodern was describing … harvest the external context of the music from many sources as well as the music tempo/mood/'genre' and use this to support an AI-augmented discovery that YOU control. This is very different from a discovery experience that is the product of an AI weapon that is pointed at YOU, the listener, and uses all the things it knows about YOU and your social graph (friends that it knows about) to make suggestions for music that it thinks PEOPLE LIKE YOU like, or that nudge buying behaviours for YOUR SEGMENT that marketers want.
CPacaud January 23, 2021, 2:13pm #17
So many cool ideas and concepts being thrown around here!
Someone mentionned at some point in the previous posts older websites with features to browse "never seen" or barely viewed/heard content. That could be a cool filter to add to a "discovery"/exploratory search tool, or simply a cool idea to build a feature around, giving a chance for some fresh or obscure material to have a turn in the spotlight.
Actually, to go a bit further, I'd wish for a distinction to be made between new music with a low play count, and music thay's been sitting there for a while, also with a low play count.
As a musician who makes pretty niche music that I think takes from too many genres/sounds to be effectively promoted, that's a feature that would help my music reach potential listeners looking for new experiences.
RobertaFidora January 24, 2021, 3:35pm #18
Interested in exploring this idea further too, seeing as a comprehensive wiki usually features on discovery sites like last.fm and similar. I do remember reading though that Wikipedia had a bias problem (and this article is a good example). Do you know if they have a better handle on that now and whether it would potentially affect using them as a discovery partner?


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Under Armour Unveils Wearable Athletic Monitoring Device Armour39
A new system scheduled to be released this spring aims to take heart monitoring for athletes to the next level. Under Armour has announced Armour39, a chest-strap monitor that sits near the base of the sternum, measures heart rate, and syncs up to 16 hours of stored data via Bluetooth with a mobile devices or a separate display watch. The app for the system allows users to display heart rate in real-time and using this information, estimations of calories burned and intensity of workout are displayed.
On the surface, this appears to be just another heart monitor; however, the company claims that the difference is the introduction of a new metric: WILLpower.
The website describes that the algorithm to assess WILLpower combines the length and type of the workout, information like gender and weight, and specific heart rate measures to produce a single score from 0.0 to 10.0. The idea is that this score reveals how hard an athlete is training and can be used as a workout target.
Unlike previous systems from the sportswear company, Armour39 does not monitor breathing rate but Under Armour says it can also be worn all day to track calories burned continuously. Currently, the system is priced at $150 while the Armour39 watch sells for $200.
Here's the video of the device:
Armour39 joins a list of new devices aimed at syncing with smartphones to provide more information about your body, including the Fitbit Zip. Now, monitors that measure calories burned also use a simple calculation based on heart rate, and Under Armour's gauge of intensity level probably derives from standard heart rate assessments like resting, recovery, and maximum heart rates standardized to biometric information. The rate of change in heart rate can also be telling when assessing intensity.
But can these gauges actually translate into observable improvements in fitness?
One of the amazing things about the human body is its ability to adapt, made possible in part because of a metabolism that can shift to new norms. This helps keep everything running on the inside of the body stable. Unfortunately, metabolism can lock athletes in training into stasis points — fitness levels that the body resists deviating from — that are like tar pits to escape out of. Getting out of a plateau is not altogether a science, and often involves changing training styles completely. Armour39 may help to not only provide some kind of measure of being in the right zone of physical exertion, but it could also psychologically help an athlete by providing a target to strive for during challenging training days.
Screenshot of Armour39 app (in development)
Admittedly, the WILLpower metric sounds a bit ominous and highly interpretative. It's hard to imagine high degrees of accuracy with an algorithm that measures a single variable, so comparing the WILLpower from one person to the next could be completely meaningless. It appears that it is best suited as a relative gauge, one that helps you associate the difficulty of a workout to a number to create an experiential scale that gives the impression that it is scientific.
If Under Armour's track record means anything, the system will likely experience great commercial success based on the popularity of the brand that has netted the company close to $2 billion in revenue last year.
Regardless, the idea of quantifying willpower along with a host of other measures will be key to the future of body monitoring. The day will come when a multitude of sensors collect massive amounts of data about your body and convert that into meaningful meters of health, whether you are an athlete or not. The body 2.0 era is approaching rapidly as a gold rush-like excitement is brewing about health monitoring for preventative medicine both as a way of having a healthier populace and also reducing skyrocketing healthcare costs that are becoming a severe burden on society.
Hopefully, Under Armour will continue its endeavors to produce smart athletic accessories that are popular and data rich. If it becomes hip to be swimming in data about what's happening inside your body right now, then we'll all benefit and live longer to boot.
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