The distance between Tristan Da Cunha, Tristan Da Cunha and Altai, China is approximately 13,663 km or 8,490 mi.
To reach Tristan Da Cunha in this distance one would set out from Altai bearing 249.2° or WSW and follow the great circles arc to approach Tristan Da Cunha bearing 232° or SW .
Tristan Da Cunha has a marine west coast climate (Cfb) whereas Altai has a mid-latitude cool steppe climate (BSk).
The average annual temperature is 10.8 °C (19.4°F) warmer.
Average monthly temperatures vary by 31.1 °C (56°F) less in Tristan Da Cunha. The continentality subtype is barely hyperoceanic as opposed to truly continental.
Total annual precipitation averages 1505.7 mm (59.3 in) more which is equivalent to 1505.7 l/m² (36.95 US gal/ft²) or 15,057,000 l/ha (1,609,693 US gal/ac) more. About 9 3/5 as much.
The altitude of the sun at midday is overall 10° higher in Tristan Da Cunha than in Altai.
The table shows values for Tristan Da Cunha relative to Altai. You can also view this comparison the other way around from the perspective of Altai vs Tristan Da Cunha.


After an unusually busy spring market, housing sales have started to put it into cruise for the summer. Check out the average price numbers for mid-month June homes sold in Toronto (GTA).
Coming off of peak season, the housing market traditionally starts to slow down in June; however, this has not entirely been the case for 2014. According to the Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB), both sales and listings increased substantially in June's first 14 days compared to this time last year. With that said sales growth improved at a faster rate than growth in new listings. Demand continues to exceed supply, leading experts to predict a seller's market for the rest of 2014. The competition amongst buyers will persist into June.
Check out the breakdown by home type below.


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Haitian-Americans
Presidential Debate
The Haitian Times
Trump fatigue tops reasons Haitian-Americans will vote for Biden, they say
Image from a Joe Biden promotional video in Creole. Credit: Joe Biden for President.
As Nov. 3 looms, Haitian-Americans are planning to vote in droves in an election that may prove more pivotal than ever for the rights of immigrants and resources available to their communities. Voters said in addition to the year's hot-button issues, fear of a Trump Administration for another term also motivates them.
"We need to give [Joe Biden] a chance to see where he's going to take the country because we have had four years experience with Trump already," said Liphage LaGuerre, a handyman in Miami. "I'm interested to see if it might be different because Trump has been acting a little crazy."
By and large, Haitian-American voters in Florida and New York say they are energized and ready to vote for the Democratic ticket, their traditional party. Uncertainty surrounding a slew of issues — immigration, healthcare, the economy — that will impact their lives for years is pushing them to participate in the national election, they said. As does the Trump factor.
"This election is very important because it could change America for the next 40 years," said musician Yves "Fanfan" Joseph, of Spring Valley, New York. "I will definitely support Biden as Trump is driving this country towards some sort of dictatorship."
Many said they refuse to buy into President Donald Trump's disparagement of vote-by-mail efforts and consider it safer than voting in person.
"It just makes sense to get your vote in as early as possible and to track it if you can," said Sandy Dorsainvil, a Pembroke Pines, Florida resident who plans to vote for Joe Biden. "I just think [Trump's rhetoric] is a scare tactic and it's a little more dangerous to wait until the very day of voting."
For many, the fate of immigration policy, specifically that of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for over 50,000 Haitians, weighs heavily on their minds. Even though these voters are U.S. citizens, they worry about vulnerable family members and friends subject to immigration legislation, or lack thereof.
"We are not sure where we're going with TPS. We are not sure how things are going to proceed with public charge," said Ginette Rows, who runs a social services organization in Huntington Station, New York. "So, there is a lot of concern with ICE and the families being deported, children being deported, even if they are sick. That will affect entire families."
Two major cases regarding TPS are going through the courts now. Experts predict the Biden administration would protect TPS holders in both cases.
While the majority of Haitians have expressed strong support for Biden, a few do so with some reservation, saying he did not always vote in favor of their issues in the past.
"We're willing to take a chance with Joe Biden,'" said Francesca Menes, co-host of the Miami radio show "Konekte." "We have to be willing to push forward and push past that [prior record] and we can help."
An even smaller contingent said they planned to vote for Trump.
Vic DeGrammont, a Republican realtor who ran unsuccessfully to represent Florida's 20th Congressional District earlier this year, is among them. He cited an executive order to lower prescription drug prices, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), and Space Force as notable Trump accomplishments.
Democrats target Haitians in ad blitz
However, Haitians tend to vote Democratic. In a recent study, Herlande Rosemond, an attorney based in Port Charlotte, Florida, found that Haitian-Americans in the Sunshine State were five times more likely to be registered with the Democratic Party than with the Republican party.
In all, 300,563 Haitian-Americans are registered to vote in Florida, according to Rosemond's study.
With groups like Ayisyen Pou Biden, or Haitians for Biden in Creole, getting the word out in Haitian-American districts, the Democratic voters there are looking forward to November. And they are buoyed by ads targeting them in Creole and English.
On the day of the first Presidential Debate, Biden's campaign in Florida released a barrage of advertising to air on Creole-speaking radio and in English in mainstream media. Karine Jean-Pierre, Chief of Staff for Kamala Harris, appeared on six radio stations last week discussing the major issues impacting the 272,522 Haitians in South Central Florida.
"I think he's [Biden] giving the community a reason to vote, a reason to organize our community and that's what the Haitian community has to continue to do," said Jean-Pierre in a radio interview. "If we are able to vote as a block in South Florida, and Haitians come out in a big way like we know that they will, it gives you a seat at the table, it gives the community a seat at the table."
Between the ads, Trump's debate performance and their traditional leanings, voters said they are even more determined to put Biden in office.
"This debate was a debacle," said Joseph, a member of the band Tabou Combo. "For the president, who has been democratically elected, to challenge the system that elected him, it's unheard of."
Dorsainvil, chairperson of the Haitian American Professionals Coalition, said it was disappointing to see both candidates debate like "sixth-graders running for class president." Nonetheless, she also stands by her decision to vote Democrat.
"It solidified my opinion [to vote for Biden] because President Trump seemed unhinged and the fact that he was avoiding the serious questions so adamantly proves that he has something to hide," she said.
Sam Bojarski contributed to this report.
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Need a set of 10 graphic vector icons based on the images given below. Only entries with all 10 icons will be considered for the prize. Winning entries have to be in high resolution with AI, EPS, JPG (300 dpi) formats. All icons preferred to be of front shot of the building/monument. Entries must be original - do not use Shutterstock or other icons from the web directly as entries. Icons that are clear, simple and representative will be chosen as winner.
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Apple and the Decline of Microsoft
If the take-away is that big companies can sometimes lose track of how to compete effectively with smaller, nimbler, more innovative successors, there's nothing new to that story - it bears repeating, it's something companies should try to remember as they get big, and it's something most companies seem to forget given enough time, success, and/or an unfortunate choice of leadership. Paul Krugman argues that Apple could follow Microsoft into decline, and that it's situation could potentially be worse as it sells consumer products and thus isn't as insulated from market forces as Microsoft, which benefits from having lazy IT departments refuse to support Apple products. But that makes Apple more like Hewlett-Packard, a once great and innovative company that produced quality products, then lost its way under incompetent, bean-counting management that slashed its research budget and didn't care about quality. For that matter, you could compare the future theoretical decline of Apple to the past, actual decline of Apple, where bad decisions by Steve Jobs and his successor all-but-destroyed the company before Steve Jobs returned from NeXT with a much improved vision for the company. But for Apple's reinvention of itself, odds are that we wouldn't be fretting over whether the next iPhone will be only incrementally improved over the prior model and that Android would still be a Blackberry clone. Let's recall, Apple's big profits come not from software, but from hardware.
Krugman writes,
The story of how that state of affairs arose is tangled, but I don't think it's too unfair to say that Apple mistakenly believed that ordinary buyers would value its superior quality as much as its own people did. So it charged premium prices, and by the time it realized how many people were choosing cheaper machines that weren't insanely great but did the job, Microsoft's dominance was locked in.
On the contrary, I think Apple is painfully aware of the fact that many consumers, particularly those at the low end of the market, are choosing Android devices. Although Apple still suffers more than a bit from the Steve Jobs attitude of, "We know what you want better than you do" (an attitude Krugman notes in a blog entry on the subject) - and in fairness to Steve Jobs, at least during his second tenure at Apple he was often correct - they don't market their most profitable products in the manner that Krugman suggests. They're not trying to convince you to buy a $599 iPhone versus a bottom-of-the-market $100 Android phone. They're trying to get you to sign up for a two year contract with your phone carrier, with much of the purchase price being built into your service contract and your nominal purchase price being not much different from a low-end phone.
In terms of quality and pricing, for quite some time Apple's computers have stacked up quite well, feature-for-feature, with the diminishing pool of well-constructed PC's. But it has been my impression from the lack of development of their desktop market that they aren't interested in trying to make a huge - or even a modest - push for market share within that diminishing market. Not surprisingly, they like to manufacture products that are profitable, something that very few cell phone manufacturers do. They and Samsung presently sell cellular phones at a profit. Thanks to the increased quality of competing products, I suspect that Samsung will soon find itself facing a commoditized market for higher-end cell phones and Apple will be the last cell phone company that makes a significant profit from its hardware. Then, barring the unlikely event that we get something as disruptive to the industry as another iPhone, Apple will no longer be able to sell its cell phones for an appreciable premium over the commodity price - and the entire industry will have to glean its profits elsewhere. Apple is trying to establish a reliable ecosystem - hardware and software that work well together, allow most products that remain in service to be upgradable to the current operating system, and are easy and reliable platforms upon which third party software and hardware developers can manufacture apps and iOS-compatible products. Despite Android's quality, the fragmentation of its operating system and the fact that many phone manufacturers don't care if a two-year-old handset can be upgraded will impair its ability to offer the same opportunities. Apple intends to make money, even in a commoditized market, from app sales and licensing fees.
Krugman appears to be focusing on major disruption rather than modest innovation, even as he brings Yahoo! and Marisa Mayer into the discussion. If the resurgence of Yahoo! is a story to be believed... and I'm a skeptic... its resurgence will be the result of improvements at the margins. And that story would not be atypical. The biggest fortunes tend to be made not by the person who comes up with a concept or invents the early version, but with the person who comes up with an upgraded version of the product - something that ships better, something that's easier to manufacture, something that's easier to use. When Steve Jobs saw early versions of a window-based operating system and mouse at HP's then-famous labs, he saw the potential to transform them and turn them into products for a mass market. Jobs wasn't the inventor of the cell phone, display panel or touch screen - but he and his company came up with an innovative way to combine them.
Microsoft committed some odd, oversized errors over the past couple of decades that have contributed to its downward slide. As Krugman notes, they didn't see the potential of the iPhone, but more than that they didn't see the potential of the Internet. As Krugman noted, a lot of Microsoft's past success was built on its monopoly power, but its best and most profitable products were not major innovations. Windows built upon work that Microsoft performed for Apple, in developing the operating system for the Macintosh. It's office suite built upon software products that offered similar functionality, perhaps with modest improvement (but often without, or with 'innovative' features that you couldn't wait to turn off), and became dominant through bundling. Its browser became dominant through bundling, leading to the decline of Netscape, but it lost interest in developing a cutting edge browser pretty much the moment it no longer perceived Netscape as a threat.
Contrary to Krugman's inferences, having never been a user of Apple products, Apple did not always have a quality advantage over Microsoft or its associated hardware developers. Windows 95 incorporated some features that it took Apple years to emulate, and after Jobs left Apple's hardware quality plummeted. For that matter, for all of its innovative features, the early Macintosh suffered from having too few programs and too little RAM, as well as the odd design compromises that came from Steve Jobs' disdain for internal fans. Microsoft's present plight emerges from its failure to effectively enter new markets as the old ones faded - as operating systems became "good enough" that companies felt no need to upgrade every year or two, and as its Office suite became "good enough" that any changes it made from year-to-year were not likely to bring new sales, and as its customers tired of its game of modifying Word files such that you had to jump through hoops to save a document that would open on an older version of its software. In that sense we're back to the legitimate fear for Apple as a hardware company - that unless it comes up with a remarkable hardware innovation it's looking at a future where its products are commoditized and while, despite some people sticking with the company due to their library of iOS apps, many customers come to see little reason not to change platforms. Apple is trying to look beyond that day, and Google is struggling to convince Android developers to follow standards that will allow it to keep up.
Apple's biggest problems seem to come from copyright law, and entrenched monopolies and oligopolies. It is having difficulty coming up with a television product because of the difficulty of licensing content from media companies. Its products rely on Internet bandwidth, with many customers obtaining that bandwidth from cable monopolies. The iPhone demonstrated how you can create a breakthrough, profitable product in a tired, commoditized market, but without content there's no apparent room for a similar move in television. Also, most televisions these days would qualify as reasonably powerful computers, so it's not clear that Apple could offer a disruptive product that would not quickly be emulated, perhaps less artfully, by its competitors. People talk about an iWatch, and I think it is inevitable that Apple will produce a wearable device of some sort... although I don't think it is likely to be a watch in the sense that we have traditionally used that word, either in how it's worn or what it does, but all we can do at this point is speculate.
Google is, in a sense, playing Microsoft to Apple's iOS, offering a version of highly similar software for free, Microsoft Internet Exploder vs. Netscape's browser. I sometimes wonder if Google will continue to provide free operating system development for the world, or at least if it will be as quick to make its greatest innovations part of the core as opposed to part of a proprietary add-on, particularly as it attempts to spin Motorola up into a dominant manufacturer of Android phones. As with all of this stuff, time will tell.
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10 Things You Might Not Know About THE DARK KNIGHT RISES | Warped Factor - Words in the Key of Geek.
Geek Dave can be anyone. Even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat around a young boy's shoulders to let him know that the world hadn't ended.
1. Following the success of the Joker in The Dark Knight, Warner Bros. studio executives wished for the Riddler to be included as the primary villain as he was considered a similar character, and suggested to Christopher Nolan that Leonardo DiCaprio or an actor of his caliber should be approached for the role. However, Nolan wanted the antagonist in The Dark Knight Rises to be vastly different from the previous incarnations and decided to using Bane instead, citing the need for a character with a physical presence within the film.
When comparing the choice of Bane with the Joker, Nolan highlighted the Joker as an example of "diabolical, chaotic anarchy and has a devilish sense of humor", juxtaposing him against Bane, who he likened to "a classic movie monster [...] with a terrific brain."
2. Nolan once again wrote the script with his brother Jonathan and David S Goyer. He drew inspiration from Charles Dickens' 1859 novel A Tale of Two Cities, which centers around the French Revolution. This homage to Dickens was briefly illustrated during one of the scenes involving the Kangaroo Court where Bane can be seen sitting in the rear of the courtroom inconspicuously finger knitting paracord, symbolizing his literary character Madame Defarge, and more overtly by Commissioner Gordon's eulogy for Bruce Wayne at the end of the film, which is taken directly from the classic novel.
"The choice of the accent is actually a man called Bartley Gorman, who was a bare knuckle fighter, a Romani gypsy. So I wanted to underpin the Latin, but a Romani Latin opposed to Latino."
But Gorman wasn't just a bare knuckle boxer, he was the bare knuckle boxer! An English-born Traveller of Welsh and Irish descent, Gorman was the undefeated bare-knuckle boxing champion of the United Kingdom and Ireland, often referred to as King of the Gypsies. Between 1972–1992, he reigned supreme in the world of illegal gypsy boxing. During these years, he fought in the street, in bars and clubs, on campsites, at horse fairs, in a quarry and even down a mineshaft!
4. Costume designer Lindy Hemming personally designed Bane's coat, taking inspiration from a Swedish army jacket and a frock coat from the French Revolution, it was designed to make Bane look like equal parts dictatorial and revolutionary. Hemming revealed he design was difficult as sheg struggled to find a tailor in Los Angeles who could work with shearling (the skin from a recently sheared sheep or lamb that has been tanned and dressed with the wool left on), it ended up taking two years to complete!
5. The Batsuit used in this and The Dark Knight consisted of 110 separate pieces, each of which had to be replicated dozens of times over the course of the production. The base layer was made of a polyester mesh that is utilized by the military and high-tech sports manufacturers because of its breathability and moisture-wicking properties. Molded pieces of flexible urethane were then attached to the mesh, to form the overall body armor plating. Carbon fiber panels were placed inside the sections on the legs, chest and abdomen. The cowl was sculpted from a cast of Bale's face and head to become a perfect fit for Christian Bale.
6. When she went to audition, Anne Hathaway believed she was there to read for the part of Harley Quinn. It was only after she had a discussion with Christopher Nolan that she found out that she was auditioning for Selina Kyle/Catwoman, a role she'd long coveted. Hathaway revealed that she was a complete nervous wreck after her audition, and the first time her agent phoned after her screen test he said he had good news and asked if Hathaway was sitting down. She immediately screamed "I'm Catwoman!" and ran around the room in a frenzy.
Unfortunately, her agent had to calm the actress down because he'd actually called to let her know the equally good news - that she'd been invited to host the Academy Awards (which she did in 2011). Fortunately, later the same week, her agent phoned again to let her know that she had been offered the part of Catwoman as well.
7. Ryan Gosling and Mark Ruffalo were considered to play John Blake before Joseph Gordon-Levitt was ultimately cast.
8. Several members of the Pittsburgh Steelers have cameo appearances as members of the fictional Gotham Rogues football team in the film, including Ben Roethlisberger, Hines Ward, Troy Polamalu, Willie Colon, Maurkice Pouncey, Mike Wallace, Heath Miller, Aaron Smith, Ryan Clark, James Farrior, LaMarr Woodley, and Casey Hampton, and former Steelers head coach Bill Cowher as the head coach of the Rogues.
"I wanted to give them a chance to see the potential, because I think IMAX is the best film format that was ever invented. It's the gold standard and what any other technology has to match up to, but none have, in my opinion. The message I wanted to put out there was that no one is taking anyone's digital cameras away. But if we want film to continue as an option, and someone is working on a big studio movie with the resources and the power to insist [on] film, they should say so. I felt as if I didn't say anything, and then we started to lose that option, it would be a shame. When I look at a digitally acquired and projected image, it looks inferior against an original negative anamorphic print or an IMAX one."
10. On July 20th 2012, during a midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises at the Century 16 cinema in Aurora, Colorado, a gunman wearing a gas mask opened fire inside the theater, killing 12 people and injuring 58 others. Police responding to the shooting apprehended a suspect later identified as 24-year-old James Eagan Holmes shortly after arriving on the scene. Initial reports stated that Holmes identified himself as "the Joker" at the time of his arrest.


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IEA holds workshop on natural gas market design in Brazil
Duarte Figueira, IEA Head of Division for Europe, Middle East, Africa and Latin America, delivers a presentation at the workshop in Brazil on 23 August 2018 (Photograph: Brazilian Ministry of Mines and Energy)
The IEA held a workshop on natural gas market design in Brazil on 23 August, hosted by the Brazilian Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME). The workshop was part of the IEA-Brazil gas market peer-review and dialogue process in which experts from the IEA and IEA member countries developed policy recommendations for Brazil's Gas to Grow (Gás para Crescer) initiative. The event provided the opportunity for IEA experts to present their preliminary evaluations and recommendations for Brazil, based on experience with the reform of the European natural gas market.
The workshop was opened by Mr Márcio Félix, MME's Deputy Minister, Mr João Vicente Carvalho, MME's Secretary for Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels, Mr Duarte Figueira, IEA Head of Division for Europe, Middle East, Africa and Latin America.
Participants took part in three sessions: main elements for the opening of the natural gas market, applicability of unbundling models in the specific context of Brazil, and network codes. The sessions featured expert presentations from Markus Krug (Gas expert E-Control, Austria) and Wim van 't Hof (Gas Coordinator, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy, The Netherlands), and comments from a panel of Brazilian experts from the Brazilian Petroleum, Gas and Biofuels Institute (IBP), the Institute of Economics of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), the Center for Studies in Regulation and Infrastructure of the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV), the Brazilian Association of Large Industrial Energy Consumers and Free Consumers (Abrace), Petróleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) and of the Association of Natural Gas Transportation Companies for Gas Pipelines (ATGás).
The final outcome of the IEA-Brazil gas market peer-review and dialogue process, which has been supported by the UK Prosperity Fund through a voluntary contribution, will be an IEA special report including the final recommendations.
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Global electricity demand surged in 2021, creating strains in major markets, pushing prices to unprecedented levels and driving the power sector's emissions to a record high. Electricity is central to modern life and clean electricity is pivotal to energy transitions, but in the absence of faster structural change in the sector, rising demand over the next three years could result in additional market volatility and continued high emissions, according an IEA report released today.
Driven by the rapid economic rebound, and more extreme weather conditions than in 2020, including a colder than average winter, last year's 6% rise in global electricity demand was the largest in percentage terms since 2010 when the world was recovering from the global financial crisis. In absolute terms, last year's increase of over 1 500 terawatt-hours was the largest ever, according to the January 2022 edition of the IEA's semi-annual Electricity Market Report.
The steep increase in demand outstripped the ability of sources of electricity supply to keep pace in some major markets, with shortages of natural gas and coal leading to volatile prices, demand destruction and negative effects on power generators, retailers and end users, notably in China, Europe and India. Around half of last year's global growth in electricity demand took place in China, where demand grew by an estimated 10%. China and India suffered from power cuts at certain points in the second half of the year because of coal shortages.
"Sharp spikes in electricity prices in recent times have been causing hardship for many households and businesses around the world and risk becoming a driver of social and political tensions," said IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol. "Policy makers should be taking action now to soften the impacts on the most vulnerable and to address the underlying causes. Higher investment in low-carbon energy technologies including renewables, energy efficiency and nuclear power – alongside an expansion of robust and smart electricity grids – can help us get out of today's difficulties."
The IEA's price index for major wholesale electricity markets almost doubled compared with 2020 and was up 64% from the 2016-2020 average. In Europe, average wholesale electricity prices in the fourth quarter of 2021 were more than four times their 2015-2020 average. Besides Europe, there were also sharp price increases in Japan and India, while they were more moderate in the United States where gas supplies were less perturbed.
Electricity produced from renewable sources grew by 6% in 2021, but it was not enough to keep up with galloping demand. Coal-fired generation grew by 9%, serving more than half of the increase in demand and reaching a new all-time peak as high natural gas prices led to gas-to-coal switching. Gas-fired generation grew by 2%, while nuclear increased by 3.5%, almost reaching its 2019 levels. In total, carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from power generation rose by 7%, also reaching a record high, after having declined the two previous years.
"Emissions from electricity need to decline by 55% by 2030 to meet our Net Zero Emissions by 2050 Scenario, but in the absence of major policy action from governments, those emissions are set to remain around the same level for the next three years," said Dr Birol. "Not only does this highlight how far off track we currently are from a pathway to net zero emissions by 2050, but it also underscores the massive changes needed for the electricity sector to fulfil its critical role in decarbonising the broader energy system."
For 2022-2024, the report anticipates electricity demand growing 2.7% a year on average, although the Covid-19 pandemic and high energy prices bring some uncertainty to this outlook. Renewables are set to grow by 8% per year on average, serving more than 90% of net demand growth during this period. We expect nuclear-based generation to grow by 1% annually during the same period.
As a consequence of slowing electricity demand growth and significant renewables additions, fossil fuel-based generation is expected to stagnate in the coming years, with coal-fired generation falling slightly as phase-outs and declining competitiveness in the United States and Europe are balanced by growth in markets like China and India. Gas-fired generation is seen growing by around 1% a year.
Canada's bold policies can underpin a successful energy transition
Canada has embarked on an ambitious transformation of its energy system, and clear policy signals will be important to expand energy sector investments in clean and sustainable energy sources, according to a policy review by the International Energy Agency.
Since the IEA's last in-depth review in 2015, Canada has made a series of international and domestic climate change commitments, notably setting a target to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 40-45% from 2005 levels by 2030 and a commitment to reach net zero emissions by 2050.
To support those climate and energy targets, governments in Canada have in recent years worked on a number of policy measures, including an ambitious carbon-pricing system, a clean fuels standard, a commitment to phase out unabated coal-fired electricity by 2030, nuclear plant extensions, methane regulations in the oil and gas sector, energy efficiency programmes and measures to decarbonise the transport sector.
"Canada has shown impressive leadership, both at home and abroad, on clean and equitable energy transitions," said IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol, who is launching the report today with Jonathan Wilkinson, Canada's Minister of Natural Resources. "Canada's wealth of clean electricity and its innovative spirit can help drive a secure and affordable transformation of its energy system and help realise its ambitious goals. Equally important, Canada's efforts to reduce emissions – of both carbon dioxide and methane – from its oil and gas production can help ensure its continued place as a reliable supplier of energy to the world."
Canada's profile as a major producer, consumer and exporter of energy presents both challenges and opportunities for reaching the country's enhanced targets. Energy makes up 10% of gross domestic product and is a major source of capital investment, export revenue and jobs. Moreover, Canada's highly decentralised system of government means that close coordination between federal, provincial and territorial governments is essential for a successful energy transition.
"This report acknowledges Canada's ambitious efforts and historic investments to develop pathways to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 and ensure a transition that aligns with our shared objective of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, " said Minister Wilkinson. "These are pathways that make the most sense for our people, our economy and our country and will also yield technology, products and know-how that can be exported and applied around the world."
The IEA finds that emissions intensity from Canada's oil and gas production has declined in recent years, but the sector remains a major source of greenhouse gases, accounting for about a quarter of the country's GHG emissions. Along with strong action to curb methane emissions, improving the rate of energy technology innovation will be essential for the deep decarbonisation that is needed in oil and gas production, as well as in the transport and industry sectors. Canada is actively advancing innovation in a number of key fields, including carbon capture, utilisation and storage; clean hydrogen; and small modular nuclear reactors, with a view to serving as a supplier of energy and climate solutions to the world. The IEA notes that further federal support for research, development and demonstration would help accelerate progress towards these goals.
The IEA is also recommending that Canada's federal government promote a comprehensive energy efficiency strategy in consultation with provinces and territories that sets clear targets for energy efficiency in the buildings, industry and transport sectors
The IEA report highlights that Canada's electricity supply is among the cleanest in the world, with over 80% of supply coming from non-emitting sources, thanks to the dominance of hydro and the important role of nuclear. To further support the expansion of clean power and electrification, the report encourages increased interconnections among provinces and territories to ensure balanced decarbonisation progress across the country.
The IEA commends Canada on its efforts to advance a people-centred approach to its clean energy transition, including initiatives to promote diversity and inclusion in clean energy sectors; programmes to increase access to clean energy in northern, remote and Indigenous communities; and actions to enable just transitions for coal workers and their communities.
"Canada has laid out a comprehensive set of policy measures and investments across sectors to meet its climate targets, including a strong clean energy component to its Covid-19 economic recovery efforts," said Dr Birol. "I hope this report will help Canada navigate its path toward economy-wide emissions reductions and a net zero future."
Iran to add 10GW to renewable energy capacity
Iranian Energy Ministry and some of the country's private contractors signed memorandums of understanding (MOU) on Sunday for cooperation in the construction of renewable power plants to generate 10,000 megawatts (10 gigawatts) of electricity across the country.
The signing ceremony was attended by senior energy officials including Energy Minister Ali-Akbar Mehrabian and Head of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Organization (SATBA) Mahmoud Kamani, IRIB reported.
The MOUs were signed following the Energy Ministry's public call for the contribution of private companies in a project for developing renewable power plants in the country.
According to SATBA, after the ministry's public call, so far 153 requests for the generation of 90,000 megawatts (MW) have been submitted to the ministry by private companies.
Speaking in the signing ceremony, Energy Minister Ali-Akbar Mehrabian said: "When the private sector invests in this industry [the renewables], the government is obliged to return the equivalent of the investment plus its interests to the investor."
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Back in December 2021, Kamani had announced plans to create 10,000 MW capacity of new renewable power plants across the country within the next four years.
He had put the current capacity of the country's renewable power plants at 905 MW, saying that such power plants account only for one percent of the country's total power generation capacity.
"Currently, 30 percent of the world's electricity needs are provided by renewable energy sources, and some countries have even declared 2030 as the final year of using fossil fuels," he said.
"We are far behind the global standards in the development of renewable energy," he regretted.
Referring to another program for the development of renewable energies in the domestic sector, Kamani noted that to encourage households for constructing such power plants the Energy Ministry has announced that it will buy their surplus generated electricity at a guaranteed price.
He further pointed to the indigenization of the knowledge for the construction of the equipment used in renewable power plants as another priority of the Energy Ministry and SATBA, saying: "Currently, the construction of solar panels and wind power plants is completely indigenized, and we must strengthen our producers to finally become able to build all the required equipment from start to finish, in this regard, of course, some enterprises have announced their readiness."
The World Bank today approved financing that, along with a grant from the Global Partnership for Education, will provide US$69.25...


Most of us have been raised to believe that we should always put others first. It's the right thing to do. Think of others, show consideration, put others' needs before your own. And this sounds great – in theory. However, the problem is that as long as you are neglecting your own needs to serve others you will be unable to serve them authentically. Genuinely taking care of yourself allows you to give more to others. It allows you to be stronger, wiser and kinder, with more energy to share with those around you.
If a friend's vehicle broke down, and he needed you to tow him to his destination, and there was only one can of gasoline – would it help him if you put the fuel into the tank of his car instead of your own? You would be unable to tow him if your vehicle ran out of gas. If you are running on empty, you cannot be of much help to others.
SelfishPutting others first is actually the selfish option. Taking care of yourself so that you are at your best to help others is the way to be genuinely helpful to them. While you are ignoring your own needs to cater to others, you are selfishly allowing yourself to become depleted for short-term benefits and are not giving those you love your best. You can't give what you don't have.
The TruthJust as on an airplane you are asked that in the event of an emergency you place the oxygen mask over your own face before helping others with theirs (you won't be of any use to them if you pass out while you're helping them), you need to take care of yourself in order to be in the best position to really help others.
The Physical Repercussions of Putting Others FirstThe effects of stress on the body are dangerous and can lead to exhaustion, illness and disease. Stress also affects your ability to think clearly since the prefrontal cortex of the brain (where cognitive thinking happens) shuts down when the body goes into the "fight, freeze or flight" state. For more information on how stress affects the body and brain, read: The Real Cause of All Stress.
Mental EffectsSince the executive function of the brain is affected by stress, while you are in a state of stress you will be unable to think as clearly as you would when you are not stressed. This affects your judgement, decisions, choices, problem-solving abilities and communication skills – which means you are not giving your best to those you love.
Health and NutritionIf you are not eating healthily and giving your body the nutrients it needs; if you are not getting enough sleep so that your organs can repair and refresh; if you are not getting regular exercise to keep your body healthy and strong – you will not be as strong as you need to be to help those around you effectively. You will be prone to illness, fatigue, irritability, and so much more – which means you are inadvertently hurting those around you rather than helping them.
Emotional HealthWe all need to feel loved and valued. Getting your value from helping others is the most ineffective and destructive way of trying to fill that need. The more you put others before yourself, the more emotional damage you are creating. And that damage will have a negative effect on the people you are trying to help. Putting yourself first by learning to love yourself, making time to do things you love, doing things for yourself that make you feel good – will provide you with a strong foundation from which you can be of genuine help to others.
The more care you take of yourself, the stronger you will be, and the more use you will be to others.
The Solution1. Read and follow the instructions in: How to Love Yourself.
2. Do for yourself what you are doing for others. Treat yourself as you would someone you care for. (Fill your own gas tank before you tow your loved ones).
3. Make sure you are getting sufficient: nutrition, water, sleep, exercise and rejuvenation time.
4. Do something you love every day. Even if it's just a walk in nature, a bubble bath, or watching something that makes you laugh.
Putting yourself first is the most effective way of giving authentically to others. Giving them the best of you means allowing yourself to become the best version of you – and that means taking care of you first.
You can't give what you don't have.
Loving yourself is the only way to authentically love others.
For more on self-love visit: Loving Yourself.
For more information on using FasterEFT to change beliefs and patterns visit: The Basics of FasterEFT.


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A longtime trusted surgeon in the Bellevue, WA area, the Bel-Red Center for Aesthetic Surgery needed a stronger presence on the web in order to get the word out. Aesthetic surgery can be a different sort of field when it comes to web design and online marketing, and customer testimonials – especially those that include photos – are extremely important. It was also important for Bel-Red to discuss cosmetic and aesthetic surgery at length, dispelling many myths that the common public has about these types of medical procedures. With everything from weight loss procedures to facial procedures such as rhinoplasty, Dr. Zemplenyi and his team of professionals are available at every turn to answer any question, fulfill any need, and work with patients individually to ensure they get proper care, treatment, and aftercare so they can help fulfill their dream.
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Bonjour lecteurs! Christmas is approaching fast! And to celebrate it, we have a big series of giveaways coming up next month! Just throwing it out there so that you are prepared for it. Are you an organised parent who has already started the long and stressful Christmas shopping? Or a bit more like moi? I will probably do it at the last minute, two days before le grand jour. But I am already thinking about what to get for Baba. I want him to have a good present bien sûr, but I also want it to be educational… I came across a fab website this month: Learning Resources.The brand sent us some cool products for Baba to try. En plus, in our Learning Resources Counting Cows Review, you will also have the chance to win this fab game worth £16.50!
Learning Resources' mission is to help kids love to learn. For over 30 years, the brand has been creating toys that spark understanding while having fun! So everyone is happy. Les enfants play and les parents are confident that their little ones learn at the same time!
The brand has a large choice of toys. They even offer a selection of Special Education Needs games. There is so much on offer, no way you can't find something that you will like!
We received this set of counting cows to review.
So what is it? It's basically a set of vaches (cows) with colours and numbers on them.
This game is aimed at early learners like Baba. It encourages your children to master early learning skills in a snap with these colourful, two-piece plastic cows. The cows are easy for little hands to snap together and pull apart.
The description also says that it helps les enfants' motor skills as they put together the cows.
The friendly animals come in a useful storage bucket with a multilingual packaging.
As you can see in our photos, le Frenchie Baba was very excited about the box. He could not believe his luck when he saw it!
The cows are so colourful and easy to handle he is always playing with them.
Bien sûr, Baba is a bit small to match up the correct colours or numbers but he really loves pulling them apart and put them back together après.
He was quick to get started!
He also makes the most of it by playing with them like a car. No doubt his imagination is developing as he is talking a lot while moving them along the table!
Another feature of this item le bébé enjoys? The bucket. He loves holding it and working out how to open and close the lead.
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I like this toy as it means Baba can play independently. He actually loves taking the cows out of the bucket and put them back inside. While he is doing so, we are counting them. So he is definitely learning!
And doing it like a pro!
The animals are toddler-friendly I love their colours and shapes. Plus I am not worried that Baba will hurt himself. There are no tiny pieces that he could swallow by accident, so he can get on with it on his own.
Plus, I can see this is going to last us for a long time. When Baba is bigger, we will carry on using the Learning Resources Counting Cows to practise colours and numbers!
And having a little storage to put them all together is fab too. Well, I reckon we have some bits of cows around the living room… Mais we will find them back when we clean the room!
Those Learning Resources Counting Cows are amazing! We love them and I have no doubt they will be a massive hit for a long time!
My bad! He actually put them back together.
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Funeral for Paignton woman who made big impact on local young people
Pam Mackey was also known in the community for her voluntary work for the steam railway
Caroline AbbottSenior Consumer and What's On Reporter
11:50, 4 OCT 2017
Pam Mackey from Paignton was a volunteer for the steam railway and worked at the Goodrington Sands station
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A funeral is taking place tomorrow for a woman who made a big impact on young people in Torbay and was also a steam railway volunteer.
Pamela Jane Shelton Mackey, known as Pam, died on September 17, aged 78.
Pam was born on July 24, 1939, in Slough, to Millicent and Edward Smith. Her father owned a military cap and accoutrement maker's business in London.
She went to school at Slough High School for Girls and after taking her O Levels went on to enrol at the London School of Floristry in Hammersmith where she gained her diploma in floral decoration, funeral work, bridal work and horticulture.
When her parents retired from the business and moved to Fivehead in Somerset, Pam worked for two years in a market garden in Ilminster, then, out of the blue, she was offered a job in floristry back in London close to the Dorchester Hotel. That business eventually closed so she and a friend went to Great Yarmouth for the summer season in a hotel.
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Returning home again, she got a telephone call from a man in Torquay who ran an artificial flower shop in Cary Parade and needed staff. She had been recommended by her previous boss in London.
After a successful interview with him in Taunton she started work in Torquay, lodging in the YMCA in Castle Road. This was where she met her future husband, Chris, a volunteer youth leader there.
Pam joined the Young Conservatives in Torquay and became their press secretary, then chairman. It was here that she teamed up with the current mayor of Torbay, Gordon Oliver, as his chairman at public speaking competitions. She was the Torbay Area chairman elect when Chris proposed and they moved to Tiverton where Chris's work had taken him.
At Tiverton, Pam took work in a local florist's then trained as a youth leader, working as a volunteer alongside Chris at the Tiverton Youth Centre.
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Their son, Peter, was born in Tiverton and used to be taken to the youth centre in his pram to the delight of the local young people; he slept in his pram in a room to the rear of the coffee bar there.
After a short sojourn to Wellington, Somerset, maintaining contacts with Tiverton, daughter Angela was born and the whole family relocated to Torbay on her first birthday.
Living in Paignton, the family got involved as volunteers on the steam railway. Through his Torquay connections, Chris was on the board of the local YMCA. Pam involved herself in the playgroup which Angela attended. Peter attended school in Curledge Street where Pam joined the PTA.
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On becoming playgroup supervisor at the YMCA, Pam organised a steam railway trip from Paignton to Kingswear and back to Goodrington Sands for all the playgroups in the Torbay area, finishing on the beach for an enormous picnic.
As things changed at the YMCA, Pam continued to help in the nursery and afterschool club, then when Chris was asked to take on the basketball section at the YMCA, Pam helped collecting subs and with the tuck shop.
Back on the steam railway she volunteered as membership secretary, helping at Goodrington Sands and Kingswear Railway Stations in the booking office or buffet and tending the station gardens, and also involved herself with the railway society's carnival float, Paignton Pudding and the 125 years celebrations in 1989.
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Unfortunately Pam had a spine problem which made walking difficult and affected her balance in later years, but she still continued collecting subs and tuck for the YMCA basketball section which linked up with the Torbay Tigers Basketball Club when the YMCA entered the Basketball National League and shared the facilities of the senior club at Churston Ferrers Grammar School.
Her husband Chris Mackey said: "She will be remembered with affection by many ex-YMCA members who played, and some who are still playing, for Torbay Tigers Basketball Club as well as many others in the local community."
The funeral takes place at Paignton Parish Church on Thursday, October 5, at 3pm.
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By Madeleine Johnson, Associate Editor| 2018-03-21T18:52:29+01:00	January 26th, 2013|"Notebook"|
Anytime the six-ton Elephant and the Rider disagree... the Rider is going to lose. He's completely overmatched.
taly will hold national elections in late February. Sadly, party maneuvering continues obscuring a host of urgent problems including tax evasion, wasted public funds, widespread corruption, and a stagnant society.
Though most voters insist they're weary of the same old storylines and same old faces, they also tend to ignore novelty.
Take Fare per Fermare il Declino ("Work to Stop the Decline"), a fast-growing grassroots movement lead by journalist Oscar Giannino. Giannino's 10-point platform of clear and simple ways to kick-start Italy's lagging economy and weak civil society gets many voters excited, but many eventually lose heart and turn back to established faces. The reason is resignation: "It would never work here." "People don't care." "Italians will never change…"
But built-in defeatism is just what fires up American brothers Chip and Dan Heath, business teachers and the authors of "Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard." In the best tradition of American pragmatism, the Heath brothers amass quality research and use international examples as a means to approach to complex problems.
At the heart of the Heaths' book is a metaphor developed by psychology professor Jonathan Haidt ("The Happiness Hypothesis") that seeks to explain human duality. Haidt writes that humans are one part rational, conscious and prone to long-term thinking; another part irrational, emotional, instinctive and short-term. Haidt fashions a suggestive image to make his point: that of a rational and conscious "Rider" poised atop an irrational and emotional elephant.
The Heaths respond to image by saying change requires that both rider and elephant work together. Otherwise, they write, "Anytime the six-ton Elephant and the Rider disagree… the Rider is going to lose. He's completely overmatched."
To get the Rider and Elephant to work together, the Heaths suggest a three-pronged strategy: Directing the Rider, motivating the Elephant, and shaping the path.
"Directing the Rider" means finding bright spots-or situations where something works-copying them, scripting moves so they take root, and pointing to a destination or choosing a concrete and measurable goal.
"Motivating the elephant" means making people feel (not just think) change is necessary. It means breaking change down into small steps that won't spook the elephant. It also means creating a new identity and mindset that make change feel natural.
"Shaping the path" means making environmental adjustments that modify behavior, building habits so that the new behavior becomes unconscious (like brushing your teeth), and "rallying the herd" or making new behavior contagious.
Now let's put this in an Italian context.
How might it work with, say, tax evasion?
First, let's find the bright spots: Though Italians think they are pathologically incapable of paying taxes, that might not be true. Economist Giulio Zanella says that among the self-employed, the U.S.-Italy tax gap- the difference between what's owed and what's paid- isn't particularly striking (55 percent versus 52 percent). Some categories pay more systematically than others. Doctors pay more taxes than architects; domestic workers more than homework tutors. The idea would be to find out who pays and why, and get the deadbeats to imitate them.
Script the moves: Think of IMU, the property tax reintroduced by Prime Minister Mario Monti (a previous property tax known as ICI had been abolished by then-leader Silvio Berlusconi). Italians might have been more willing to pay if the government had published the new guidelines on time and explained them more clearly. Italians might have felt better about a new tax if the destination of the cash had been unambiguous and verifiable — something that citizens care deeply about, such as better healthcare or teacher salaries.
Motivate the elephant: Perhaps instead of generic talk about decreasing evasion overall, which seems unattainable, Italy could set small well-defined and quantifiable goals, such as raising compliance in lax regions to levels that are standard in other regions. Or it could aim to reduce the tax gap by a specific but modest amount. Perhaps the government could challenge sneaky tutors (notorious for tax evasion) to pay as much as housekeepers and the elderly caregivers known as badanti. Perception and identity, say the Heaths, are essential tools.
For example, hotels were able to convince guests to reuse towels by telling them that most people did so. Underage drinking drops at colleges whose leaders tell students that the majority of students do not drink.
Italians need to be reminded that most citizens do pay their taxes. If Italians perceived and saw themselves as the hardworking taxpayers they actually are, more would pay up. Global perception would also change, which in turn could improve the country's ability to borrow on international markets.
Shape the path: Italy could change its bureaucratic environment to make paying easier. It could reduce the sheer number of taxes paid — on televisions, trash collection, cars, and so on. What if Italians got their tax forms in the mail instead of having to purchase them in shops? In the U.S. "designated driver" was an unknown concept until the late 1980s, when a Harvard professor convinced the producers and writers of 160 primetime programs to introduce five-second, designated-driver moments into scripts. After three years, nine out of ten people were familiar with the term. What if Italian shows included similar bytes?
When comparing their country and its flaws to the U.S., Italians often say "But we aren't like you." But I always respond by reminding them of their own proverb Tutto il mondo è paese ("The whole world is a village.") If the Heaths' approach works in places as diverse as Vietnam, the U.S. and Tanzania, then it should work in Italy.
In the end we humans are sadly alike the world over. We're all just poor struggling Riders trying to guide our Elephants.
About the Author: Madeleine Johnson, Associate Editor
Madeleine Johnson has written her "Notebook" column for more than a decade. She lived in Italy for almost 30 years, mostly in Milan, before returning to the U.S. in 2017. Her work has been published in the "Financial Times" and "New York Post."


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Avaya announces the completion of its senior lien note offering, the repurchase and extension of the first lien term loan, and the extension of the ABL facility
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SANTA CLARA, California – (BUSINESS WIRE) – Avaya Holdings Corp. (NYSE: AVYA) ("Avaya") announced today that its wholly-owned subsidiary Avaya Inc. (the "Company") announced its previously announced private offer (the "Offer") from Jan. USD has completed EUR billion in the total face value of the Senior First Lien Notes due in 2028 (the "Bonds"). The Notes bear cash interest at 6.125% per annum, payable semi-annually on March 15 and September 15, beginning March 15, 2021. The Notes are senior secured debt of the Company and are owned by Avaya. Guaranteed on a senior secured basis and each of the Company's wholly owned domestic subsidiaries that guarantee the Company's term loans and asset-based revolving credit facilities.
The Company has used the proceeds of the Offering to repay and / or buy back outstanding debt under its existing senior secured term loans due in December 2024 ("Existing First Deposit Loans") and the associated fees, costs and expenses to pay. In addition, the terms of $ 800 million in par value of the existing first lien term loans that were not repaid / repurchased extended from December 2024 to December 2027.
Simultaneously with the above transactions, the company extended the life of its asset-based revolving facility from December 2022 to September 2025 and reduced its related obligations from $ 300 million to $ 200 million.
"These transactions represent a significant step in optimizing our capital structure," said Kieran McGrath, EVP and CFO of Avaya. "We have extended the weighted average term of our capital structure from 4 years to over 6 years and at the same time staggered our maturity profile, which will give us more flexibility in the future."
The Notes and their related warranties have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), the securities laws of any state or the securities laws of any other jurisdiction, and may not be offered or offered in the United States or for the benefit of any US person except under an applicable exemption from or in any transaction that is not subject to the registration requirements of the Securities Act and applicable state securities or blue sky laws. Accordingly, the Notes and associated guarantees have been offered only to persons who are reasonably believed to be qualified institutional buyers in reliance on Rule 144A of the Securities Act and non-US persons outside of the United States under Regulation S of the Securities Act.
This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor will any sale of these securities be made in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale prior to registration or admission would be unlawful under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.
Businesses are built by the experiences they offer, and every day, millions of those experiences are being shared by Avaya Holdings Corp. (NYSE: AVYA) provided. Avaya is shaping the future of work with innovations and partnerships that deliver breakthrough business benefits. Our cloud communication solutions and the ecosystem for multi-cloud applications enable personalized, intelligent and effortless customer and employee experiences to achieve strategic ambitions and desired results. Together, we're committed to growing your business by bringing you experiences that matter.
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