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Public Release: 2-Mar-2016
Food limitation linked to record California sea lion pup strandings
New research shows a decade-long decline of sardines and anchovy associated with poor condition of sea lion pups
NOAA Fisheries West Coast Region
IMAGE: Julia Stewart Lowndes is sorting the catch during a Rockfish Recruitment and Ecosystem Assessment Survey off the coast of California. The survey provided information about the composition of fish species... view more
Credit: NOAA Fisheries/SWFSC
Large numbers of California sea lion pups have flooded animal rescue centers in Southern California in the past few years. Now, as part of an ongoing investigation into the Unusual Mortality Event of California sea lions by a team of NOAA scientists and private partners, researchers may have an explanation.
Booming sea lion numbers combined with declines in the highest-calorie prey around the Channel Islands breeding rookeries have left nursing females struggling to support the nutritional needs of their pups, according to a new study published today in Royal Society Open Science.
The study by NOAA Fisheries scientists is the first to analyze changes in fish populations sea lions prey on for clues as to what is causing the record strandings. Scientists examined changes in the abundance of four of the main prey species: sardine, anchovy, rockfish and market squid over the 2004-2014 time period. They found that that high-calorie sardines and anchovies, both rich in fat that is vital to the growth of young sea lions, have declined since the mid-2000s in the areas around the Channel Islands where the females forage. That has forced the female sea lions to prey instead on market squid and rockfish, which contain far less fat and fewer calories.
"When you have hundreds of thousands of animals to feed and you have a fluctuating prey base that has trended downward, you are going to have starving animals," said Sam McClatchie of NOAA Fisheries' Southwest Fisheries Science Center in La Jolla, Calif., and lead author of the new research. "Sardines and anchovies have both trended downward, and that compounds the problem for the sea lions."
The scientists did not study how changes in fish species affect the composition and quality of milk that mother sea lions feed their pups, which affects the growth of the pups. However, the close correlation between the fish available and the weight of sea lion pups provides "compelling evidence of a food limitation effect on the weight of dependent pups," the scientists wrote. The trends in the relative abundance of forage taxa highlight a decade-long decline in the availability and quality of forage for sea lions.
Nature, in effect, has put the sea lions on a low-calorie diet. Market squid, for instance, contain less than half the calories and about one-tenth the fat content by weight compared to sardines. While adult males and females without pups can survive on a low calorie diet, lactating females and their dependent pups seem to be sensitive to reductions in high calorie prey. The results build on earlier studies at San Miguel Island that showed pup weights decrease during El Niño events and when female diet, as determined from scat analysis, was predominantly squid and rockfish.
The long-term and widespread nature of the changes in prey suggest that environmental shifts are driving them, the researchers concluded. Although sardines have been subject to limited fishing pressure, anchovies were much more lightly fished prior to 2013; yet both populations have declined.
"The overall driver appears to be the natural fluctuations in fish populations," McClatchie said. "They do fluctuate up and down over time, and since 2004, they're doing it in phase."
The changes in prey were documented by Southwest Fisheries Science Center surveys off the California Coast, which sample the composition of fish species. Changes in pup condition were collected by the Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Marine Mammal Laboratory.
Sea lions are not endangered but are protected by the 1972 Marine Mammal Protection Act. Their population has grown from about 50,000 to over 300,000 in the last 40 years, and is expected to ultimately fluctuate around a still-unknown carrying capacity, the researchers said. The carrying capacity would be expected to vary with climate and ocean conditions."Given the likelihood that the California sea lion population is approaching carrying capacity, density-dependent effects such as food limitation (and stranding) of pups may be a long-term consequence of a rebuilt sea lion population during periods of low abundance of high-quality forage," the scientists wrote.
Sea lions have faced similar declines in sardines and anchovies during previous El Niño conditions, but the shifts are not limited only to El Niño periods, the researchers found. The latest spike in sea lion strandings began before the current El Niño pattern took hold, and before the large expanse of warm water known as "the blob" began dominating West Coast Waters in 2014.
The results refocus the debate on the causes of sea lion pup weight loss from episodic stresses associated with El Niño years to a decadal-long trend of declining forage quality in the waters around the California Channel Island rookeries, the researchers wrote. The large areas where surveys documented declines in sardine and anchovy and increases in market squid and rockfish suggests that the drivers for this decadal trend is environmental. Both the warm blob and El Niño events may continue to disrupt historical spawning times and locations of sardine and anchovy populations. It is unknown how long low-quality forage abundance will persist. Recently completed NOAA Fisheries surveys suggest that while both sardine and anchovy populations have trended downward in recent years, the 2015 numbers of anchovy larvae appear to be stronger than in the past 10 years along portions of the U.S. West Coast. Sardines, which normally spawn off central California in spring, last year spawned off Oregon. However, there is uncertainty, whether the young anchovies and sardines that were observed will successfully mature into the adult populations.
NOAA Fisheries surveys and stock assessments continue to track the status of sardine, anchovy and other coastal pelagic species, while monitoring the health and abundance of sea lion populations, to provide data for the public and effective management of these species in changing ocean conditions.
Michael Milstein
michael.milstein@noaa.gov
@NOAAFish_WCRO
http://www.westcoast.fisheries.noaa.gov/index.html
MARINE/FRESHWATER BIOLOGY
TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENT PHENOMENA
Sea Lion and Underweight Pup (IMAGE)
Sorting the Catch (IMAGE)
https://swfsc.noaa.gov/news.aspx?ParentMenuId=39&id=21588
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.150628
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Oncotarget published "Genomic clustering analysis identifies molecular subtypes of thymic epithelial tumors independent of World Health Organization histologic type" which reported that genomic information from 102 evaluable TETs from The Cancer Genome Atlas dataset and from the IU-TAB-1 cell line underwent clustering analysis to identify molecular subtypes of TETs.
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In this study, computational analysis of the TCGA dataset reveals an updated molecular classification of TETs and identifies 6 unique molecular subtypes; importantly, these subtypes are independent of WHO histologic subtypes.
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Detectives investigating the murder of a 63-year-old woman in Earls Barton have today named her
Detectives investigating the murder of a 63-year-old woman in Earls Barton have today named her.
Marion Price, of Earls Barton was found in her car in a private residential car park in Elderton Way in the village, shortly after 8pm on Sunday, December 15. A post-mortem examination carried out at Leicester Royal Infirmary yesterday (Monday, December 16) found she died as a result of a shotgun wound.
Detective Chief Inspector Joe Banfield, from the East Midlands Special Operations Unit Major Crime Team, is leading the investigation.
He said: "Marion, a much loved mum, grandmother, daughter and sister, tragically died after suffering serious injuries. Specialist trained officers are supporting her family and our thoughts remain with them at this extremely difficult time.
"Our investigation into what happens continues to progress well, however I would still like to appeal for anyone who may have witnessed, or has information, which would assist with this enquiry to come forward.
"I am particularly interested to hear from anyone who may have been in or around Earls Barton, between 4pm and 8pm on Sunday, and have dash-cam footage. Or anyone who may have seen someone acting strangely, which gave them cause for concern."
Anyone who may have witnessed this incident or who may have any information, no matter how insignificant they think it may be, is asked to call Northamptonshire Police on 101, quoting incident number 504 of 15/12/19. Alternatively, if they would prefer to remain anonymous, they can call Crimestoppers on 0800 555111.
DCI Banfield added: "Marion's death has understandably shocked the local community. We know there has some speculation surrounding the case and neighbourhood officers have been carrying out increased patrols in the area.
"They're there to provide extra reassurance and are happy to speak with local residents. They'll be patrolling in Earls Barton this evening (Tuesday, December 17) between 5pm and 7pm and I would encourage anyone with any concerns to approach them."
A 69-year-old man from Northampton has been arrested on suspicion of murder and remains in police custody after officers were granted a 24 hour extension at Northampton Magistrates' Court today (Tuesday, December 17).


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Луис Комфорт Тиффани (, 18 февраля 1848, Нью-Йорк — 17 января 1933, Нью-Йорк) — американский художник и дизайнер, представитель модерна.

Международное признание Тиффани принесли его изысканные изделия из стекла (названного ): витражи, абажуры, бижутерия. Произведения Луиса Комфорта Тиффани украшают храмы и частные дома. Крупнейшая в мире коллекция его ювелирных и стекольных изделий находится в музее «Метрополитен» в Нью-Йорке. Изобретённый им способ соединения небольших кусочков стекла с помощью медной фольги, а также новые виды созданных им стёкол, произвели революцию в художественном стеклоделии. А техника Тиффани стала самой распространённой во всем мире для создания витражей, ламповых абажуров и других произведений декоративно-прикладного искусства из цветного стекла.

Биография

Родился в Нью-Йорке, в семье основателя ювелирной фирмы «Тиффани и Ко» — Чарльза Льюиса Тиффани. Выросший в роскоши и окружённый красивыми вещами, Луис Комфорт Тиффани решил посвятить себя искусству. Обучался живописи у Джорджа Иннесса и Сэмюэля Колмена в Нью-Йорке, и в Париже у Леона Байли. В 1876 году состоялась экспозиция работ Тиффани на Всемирной выставке в Филадельфии, а в 1877 году он стал одним из учредителей «Общества американских художников».

С начала 1880-х годов Тиффани переключился на дизайн стекла. Постоянно экспериментируя, дизайнер разработал новый вид стекла — «Фавриль». На Всемирной выставке 1893 года в Чикаго работы Тиффани были восторженно приняты публикой. С середины 1880-х годов основанная им дизайнерская фирма производила витражи на религиозные сюжеты по заказам церквей и храмов. Из кусочков стекла, оставшихся после нарезки отдельных элементов витражей, компания стала производить абажуры. К концу XIX века эти изделия приобрели большую популярность, и фирма заняла лидирующее положение на рынке.

Стиль модерн, в котором работал дизайнер, в США и других странах называют также «тиффани», по имени Луиса Комфорта Тиффани.

После смерти Чарльза Тиффани в 1902 году, Луис Комфорт Тиффани стал первым директором по дизайну ювелирной компании Tiffany & Co. Находясь на этой должности, он создал отдел художественных ювелирных изделий при магазине на Пятой авеню в Нью Йорке.

Техника Тиффани
Свинцовые прутья, использовавшиеся в течение многих веков для соединения стёкол между собой, казались Тиффани очень грубыми: он хотел создавать филигранно-тонкие и сложные произведения. Он нашёл собственный заменитель свинцовым прожилкам в виде медных полосок, вырезанных из металлического листа. Они приклеивались к стеклу пчелиным воском и спаивались между собой при помощи олова. Таким образом стало возможно соединять мельчайшие кусочки стекла и создавать сложные объёмные формы. Первоначально техника медной фольги применялась им для создания ламповых абажуров, и только позже — для витражей. Иногда Тиффани использовал сочетание двух техник в одном произведении, сочетая свинцовую оплётку с медной фольгой.

Стекло Тиффани
Свою художественную карьеру Тиффани начал как живописец и уже после того, как стал известен на этом поприще, стал заниматься стеклом. Первые результаты его деятельности в области витражного искусства его не удовлетворили. Изготавливаемые в то время, в последней трети XIX столетия, стёкла не соответствовали его требованиям. Тиффани чрезвычайно ценил силу света и естественную красоту материала. По его мнению, роспись красками лишь скрывала естественную красоту стекла, лишала его эффектности и производила неприятное впечатление.

Опыты Тиффани по изготовлению витражей из стёкол чужого производства не были удачными. Поэтому при поддержке семьи он приобрёл стекольную фабрику и начал экспериментировать. За короткое время он достиг замечательных результатов и смог собирать витражи из стёкол собственного производства.

К 1900 году Тиффани уже являлся одним из известнейших производителей стекла в мире. В его мастерских возникали стёкла, невиданные до тех пор. На складах Тиффани, вероятно, крупнейших в мире, находилось до  стекла примерно  различных оттенков, которые были классифицированы и разложены по специальной системе.

Благодаря применению новых видов стёкол он с успехом справлялся с такими задачами, как изображение поверхности воды или листвы одной стеклянной пластиной без применения росписи красками. Только для изображения рук и лиц он использовал чёрно-коричневую краску шварцлот.
Собственно изобретателем опалесцентного стекла (или стекла Тиффани) является Джон Ла Фарж, который уже в 1875 году использовал опалесцентное стекло для витражей. Через некоторое время и другие художники обратили внимание на новый вид стекла и стали сами экспериментировать в этой области или просто копировать стекла Ла Фаржа. Тиффани не был исключением. Дважды он работал вместе с Ла Фаржем в его мастерской в Бруклине. Впоследствии Тиффани поставил изготовление опалесцентного стекла и предметов из него на коммерческую основу. При этом он заключил с Ла Фаржем соглашение о том, что ламповые абажуры, витражи из опалесцентного стекла и само это стекло будут носить имя Тиффани как второе название.

Опалесцирующий эффект такого стекла получается, если добавить в состав сырья замутняющие вещества (олово или жжёную кость). При добавлении костяного пепла в расплавленной массе образуются крохотные капельки фосфатного стекла, которые «глушат» (замутняют) стекло. Эффект такого стекла состоит в том, что оно не столько пропускает свет, сколько его преломляет. В зависимости от массы непрозрачных веществ можно получить различные степени опалового эффекта.

Фирменным знаком Тиффани стало иризирующее стекло. Его можно получить, если посыпать уже готовое, но ещё не охлаждённое стекло металлическими крупинками. При этом на поверхности пластины образуется металлический глянец, который переливается всеми цветами радуги. Иризирующее стекло также изготавливали уже до Тиффани, но только благодаря ему оно стало по-настоящему известно.
Складчатое стекло или «драпировки» также прославило имя Тиффани. Его получают, деформируя ещё мягкую пластину стекла в процессе производства. Сам Тиффани использовал «драпировки» и «складки» в больших витражах для фонов в виде растительных мотивов или для изображения листвы деревьев. Стекло для Тиффани — это прежде всего цвет. Как живописец на палитре, так и он в процессе производства стекла смешивал различные тона и «рисовал» ими свои картины. Он чрезвычайно тщательно подбирал цвета, и, если необходимого тона не было в одной пластине стекла, он складывал три или четыре стекла друг на друга по так называемому «сэндвич-методу», пока не получал желаемого тона.

Стиль Тиффани

Иногда технику Тиффани неверно отождествляют со стилем Тиффани. Под Тиффани-стилем подразумевают яркие лампы классических форм с преобладающими натуралистическими мотивами и пёстрые витражи насыщенных цветов, изображающие природные мотивы и пейзажи. Творчество Тиффани находилось между реалистической манерой изображения и стилизованной, близкой средневековым витражам.

В 2007 году исследователями обнаружено, что основной вклад в дизайн этих светильников внесла некая  (в девичестве Клара Пирс Уолкотт), возглавлявшая женское подразделение компании (неофициально оно называлось «Девушки Тиффани»). До прихода Клары в компанию для светильников использовались в основном геометрические узоры. Дрисколл создала новый стиль в лучших традициях ар нуво — с растительными орнаментами (лампы «Глициния», «Пион», «Нарцисс»). Именно Клара отвечала за подбор стекла и обработку его кусочков.

Клара родилась в 1861 году, в штате Огайо, в небольшом городке неподалёку от Кливленда. Она окончила художественную школу в Кливленде, и некоторое время работала дизайнером для местного производителя мебели. Через некоторое время Клара переехала в Нью-Йорк, чтобы посещать Школу Искусств при Музее Метрополитан. В 1888 году Луис Тиффани заметил талант девушки, и вскоре она уже работала в его компании, создавая эскизы витражей и плафонов.

Первой её лампой для компании стала лампа «Нарциссы». Всего Клара создала дизайн 30 светильников. Лампа «Стрекоза» даже удостоилась бронзовой медали на Парижской выставке 1900 года. По сути, именно Клара разработала все основные элементы дизайна, благодаря которым лампы Тиффани ценятся столь высоко (рекордная цена на аукционе за антикварный светильник составила около 2,8 млн долларов).

Луис Тиффани считал, что семья отвлекает женщин от работы, и запрещал своим сотрудницам вступать в брак. Поэтому в 1889 году, когда Клара вышла замуж, она ушла из компании. Но первый муж Клары в 1892 году скончался, и она вновь вернулась в мастерскую, где проработала до 1909 года, пока вновь не вышла замуж.

Стараниями профессора Ратгерского Университета (США)  найдены документы, подтверждающие роль Клары в создании шедевров Тиффани.

Известные произведения
Витражи
 «Священный град» — Пресвитерианская мемориальная церковь Брауна, Балтимор
 «Крещение Господне» — Пресвитерианская мемориальная церковь Брауна, Балтимор
 «Нагорная проповедь» — Церковь Арлингтон-стрит, Бостон
 «Мемориальный витраж Мэя» — Синагога Эману-Эль, Нью-Йорк
 «Образование» (Мемориальный витраж Читтендена) — Йельский университет

Лампы и абажуры
 «Лист лотоса»
 «Стрекоза»
 «Ракитник — золотой дождь»

Примечания

Ссылки
 Биография и работы Луиса Комфорта Тиффани на сайте музея «Метрополитен»
 История Тиффани
 Тиффани: личность, стекло, техника, стиль
 История витража
 Что такое технология Тиффани

Художники по алфавиту
Художники США
Художники-витражисты
Похороненные на кладбище «Грин-Вуд»
Выпускники Университета Вайднера
Почётные доктора Йельского университета

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La microrégion de Santa Maria Madalena est une des microrégions de l'État de Rio de Janeiro appartenant à la mésorégion Métropolitaine de Rio de Janeiro. Elle couvre une aire de  pour une population de  (IBGE 2009) et est divisée en trois municipalités.

Microrégions limitrophes

 Baie d'Ilha Grande
 Rio de Janeiro
 Vallée do Paraíba Fluminense
 Vassouras

Municipalités

 Itaguaí
 Mangaratiba
 Seropédica

Itaguaia


"Still Rings True: The Enduring Voice of Keith Whitley" opens May 3 at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.
In addition to hosting an all-star, sold-out concert on the 30th anniversary of his death, the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum is remembering country star Keith Whitley with a new exhibit.
"Still Rings True: The Enduring Voice of Keith Whitley" opens May 3 at the museum and will run through April 5, 2020.
The Kentucky native was a skyrocketing star in country music in the late '80s, before his 1989 death at age 33.
He released just two albums during his lifetime, which featured the No. 1 hits "Don't Close Your Eyes," "When You Say Nothing at All" and "I'm No Stranger to the Rain."
The exhibit will feature several storied items from Whitley's career and childhood, including a bolero jacket he wore at one of his final performances in 1989 and an acoustic guitar he used extensively in the 1980s.
There's also the original handwritten lyrics to "When You Say Nothing At All" by songwriting great Don Schlitz, and a reel-to-reel tape recorder that was used by Whitley's father to record Whitley and his brother Dwight — back when they played in the bluegrass group The Lonesome Mountain Boys.
Whitley's own handwritten lyrics for two songs that appeared on his posthumous album "Wherever You Are Tonight" also will be on display.
The museum will follow up the exhibit opening with the now sold-out "Keith Whitley 30th Anniversary Memorial Concert," taking place Thursday, May 9, at the CMA Theater at the museum.
The show will be hosted by Lorrie Morgan — who was married to Whitley from 1986 until his death — and their son, Jesse Whitley.
Performers include Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood, Tracy Lawrence, Joe Diffie, Darryl Worley, Tom Buller, Mark Chesnutt, Larry Cordle, Caleb Daugherty, Kevin Denney, Wesley Dennis, Corey Farlow, Carl Jackson, Cory and Dustin Keefe and Mark Wills.


More Bare Bones . . .
waiting for green buds and fancy dresses.
Hope dresses bones in breezy longing.
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Will you take pictures of these same bare bones in spring bud then in full bloom?
That would be fun and easy since they are in my neighborhood and near work.
This is a great line!
That last one is gorgeous.
Makes walking the dog fun!
The bar bones of winter hide the promise of spring!
This is a beautiful, I appreciate the stunning images….
It's hard not to stop a gazillion times when there are so many interesting images with winter barrenness.
***********************************Another revisiting of an older blog–suits with the winter upon us.
I love it. The webby artistry is something very cool to me.


Writing in the Times, Kevin Roose describes how he recently arrived at a better working relationship with his smartphone. It is not unlike similar narratives that you might have read at some point in the last few years. Roose realizes that he is spending way too much time checking his smartphone, and he recognizes that it's taking a toll on him. A series of unambitious measures—using grayscale, installing app-blockers, etc.—can't quite get the job done, so he turns to Catherine Price, the author of "How to Break Up With Your Phone," a 30-day guide to getting a better grip on your phone use.
You can read the piece to find out how things go for him. I'm just going to make two or three observations.
The implicit fear that commending tech temperance might earn one the label of neo-Luddite is especially telling. Of course, the fear itself already cedes too much ground to the Luddite bashers and to the Borgs, who use the term as an a-historical slur.
Preemptive framings notwithstanding, there's still some fodder for another, socio-economic strand of criticism: taking recourse and gaining access to a life-coach of sorts, pottery classes, an unplugged weekend in the Catskills framed as a Waldenesque experience.
Who has the time and resources for such measures? And, of course, this is the point of the socio-economic critique of testimonials of this sort: it's a luxury experience available to very few. Mind you, Roose himself notes the even more luxurious variants: multi-thousand dollar getaways at luxury detox destinations, etc.
This line of criticism is understandable. The point-scoring, out-of-hand, performative dismissals are less so, of course. The unfortunate result of all of this is that in certain quarters it is difficult to speak about the problems associated with digital devices without getting some serious blowback. We must all, to some degree, necessarily speak out of our own experience, and this requires a measure of humility not only in the speaking but also in the hearing. Neither is particularly encouraged by the structures of social media.
Secondly, I was reminded about a post I wrote back in 2011 about the possible virtues of what I then called digital asceticism. I used Google to find the post with "digital asceticism" as my search term. I expected to have to wade through a few pages to find my post, but I was surprised to discover that it was, at least for me, the third result. The first result was a blog titled "Digital Ascetics," which appears to have been launch and abandoned in 2009 (practicing what it preached, I suppose). I was surprised by this because I was sure that in the eight or so years since I wrote the post, especially in light of the rolling tech backlash over the last couple of years, there would be plenty of references to digital asceticism. Apparently not.
It seems like an obvious framing for the wide variety of efforts that we deploy to get at least a semblance of control over our use of digital devices. It's even suggested by some of the language we use to talk about such measures: fasts and Sabbaths, for example. Frankly, I find that it may be a better option than the more popular alternative: the clinical language of addiction.
Part of what the language of asceticism captures is the aspect of self-denial that is necessarily involved, at least for many who would practice it. We won't really be able to grapple with the personal consequences of digital devices unless we recognize that doing without them now entails what is experienced as real deprivation. Indeed, the connection between the word privation and privacy is suggestive on this score. Privacy in the world of digital media is privation; the measures we might take to achieve privacy require privations we find barely tolerable. The self-denial entailed by digital asceticism also takes on a slightly different hue: it is not simply a matter of denying certain experiences to the self, it is denying the self the very experiences by which it is constituted in the present psycho-social technical milieu.
It is also useful to consider that asceticism is never properly for its own sake. It is for the sake of some greater good than that which we deny ourselves. But this valuation is itself dependent on the psycho-social milieu. What higher goods do we find plausible or compelling? The answer to this question is already informed by the structures within which the self takes shape. Such goods are always a product of what Charles Taylor has called a social imaginary, and we might think of media as the material scaffolding of the social imaginary. We might expect, then, that the pursuit of alternative goods to those sustained by the dominant media structures will always appear renegade, deviant, or, at best, quixotic. Yet another reason why we might feel pressured to preemptively hedge our decision to pursue them.
Has there ever been a more perfect instrument of what Pascal called diversion than the smartphone? I'm hard pressed to think of a counter example.
It occurs to me that these three observations are not unrelated. The difficulty in speaking earnestly about digital asceticism involves the erosion of a social imaginary that would render the goods for the sake of which such asceticism might be undertaken plausible or desirable. Instead we are left with the less satisfying and less compelling language of wellness with which to speak about such things. But this itself reminds us that whatever the dominant social imaginary may tell us about the virtues and wonders of the preternaturally connected life, there is a world against which such visions rub up and in this world the recalcitrance of our bodies signals to us the inadequacy of the vision. Then, it may be that, heeding the challenge of the body, we undertake the practices of digital asceticism and as a consequence stumble upon these signs of an alternative, possibly disconcerting understanding of our situation, as Pascal suggested. And we might even find that we really are better for it and that wellness, as we imagined it, had, finally, very little to do with it.
Occasional reminder that tips are welcome.
It seems to me that not much has changed in the 28 or so years since Winner published these reflections; we have learned very little and the challenges have become more complex, consequential, and urgent. Indeed, what strikes me about this article is that it could be re-published today without substantive changes and it would appear to be speaking directly to our situation.
In his article, Winner went on to survey ancient and modern attitudes toward the relationship between techne and politics. According to Winner, "the Western tradition of moral and political philosophy has … almost nothing to say about the ways in which persons in their role as citizens might be involved in making choices about the development, deployment, and use of new technology." Indeed, the chief feature of both classical and modern political reflection regarding technology has been the tendency to compartmentalize the political and the technological, although for different reasons.
Again, nearly three decades later, it seems the problems, on all counts, are both more acute and more vexing.
Different ideas of social and political life entail different technologies for their realization. One can create systems of production, energy, transportation, information handling, and so forth that are compatible with the growth of autonomous, self-determining individuals in a democratic polity. Or one can build, perhaps unwittingly, technical forms that are incompatible with this end and then wonder how things went strangely wrong. The possibilities for matching political ideas with technological configurations appropriate to them are, it would seem, almost endless. If, for example, some perverse spirit set out deliberately to design a collection of systems to increase the general feeling of powerlessness, enhance the prospects for the dominance of technical elites, create the belief that politics is nothing more than a remote spectacle to be experienced vicariously, and thereby diminish the chance that anyone would take democratic citizenship seriously, what better plan to suggest than that we simply keep the systems we already have?
And yet the idea that technical forms are merely neutral has proven hard to shake. For a very long time, it has been a cornerstone principle of our thinking about technology and society. Or, more to the point, we have taken it for granted and have consequently done very little thinking about technology with regards to society.
I'll note in passing that the liberal democratic structures of modern political culture and the development of technology are deeply intertwined, and they have both depended upon the presumption of their ostensible neutrality. I tempted to think that our present crisis is a function of a growing realization that neither our political structures nor our technologies are, in fact, merely neutral instruments.
Making our way back to Winner's claim about the absence of moral-political communities within which technological ethics can be enacted, our political structures (or better our political-economic structures) and our technologies have, as one function of their non-neutrality, made such communities very difficult to sustain. It has rendered them implausible.
We are, at present, stuck in an unhelpful tendency to imagine that our only options with regard to how we govern technology are, on the one hand, individual choices and, on the other, regulation by the state. What's worse, we've also tended to oppose these to one another. But this way of conceptualizing our situation is both a symptom of the deepest consequences of modern technology and part of the reason why it is so difficult to make any progress.
Technology operates at different scales and effective mechanisms of governance need to correspond to the challenges that arise at each scale. Mechanism of governance that makes sense at one end of the spectrum will be ineffective at the other end and vice versa.
Our problem is basically this: technologies that operate at the macro-level cannot be effectively governed by micro-level mechanisms, which basically amount to individual choices. At the macro-level, however, governance is limited by the degree to which we can arrive at public consensus, and the available tools of governance at the macro-level cannot address all of the ways technologies impact individuals. What is required is a cocktail of strategies that address the consequences of technology as they manifest themselves across the spectrum of scale.
The problem, of course, as Winner diagnosed long ago, is that the further up the scale we move, the more unlikely we are to find a relevant moral community with either the prerequisite coherence or authority to effectively grapple with the problems we face. We lack those communities, in part, because of the moral and political consequences of existing technology, so it would seem that we are stuck in a vicious cycle of sorts.
I have no solution for this, of course. I think it would be helpful, though, if whatever moral communities we have left that occupy the broad space between the individual on the one hand and the state on the other would take up the challenge of thinking critically about the morally formative consequences of technology and see their way to leveraging their existing structures of deliberation and practice with a view to helping their members better navigate the challenges posed by emerging technologies. If we need some model of what this might look like, we could do worse than consider the Amish.
Periodic reminder that tips are welcome and your steady support even more so.
It's a line to which I frequently resort as a way of addressing a variety of developments in the sphere of digital media that have, as I see it, eroded our confidence in the possibility of public knowledge. I'm using the phrase public knowledge to get at what we believe together that is also of public consequence. This is an imperfect distinction worth teasing out, but I'm just going to let it go at that right now.
It occurs to me, though, that it might be worth making a clarification: digital media does not create the conditions out of which the problem arises.
Although the story is more complicated than this, there is something to be said for framing the emergence of the modern world as a response to an epistemic crisis occasioned by the dissolution of the what we might think of as the medieval world picture (see Stephen Toulmin's Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernity, for example).
The path that emerged as a way toward a solution to that crisis amounted to a quest certainty that took objectivity, abstraction, and neutrality as methodological pre-conditions for both the progress of science and politics, that is for re-emergence of public knowledge. The right method, the proper degree of alienation from the particulars of our situation, translations observable phenomena into the realm mathematical abstraction—these would lead us away from the uncertainty and often violent contentiousness that characterized the dissolution of the premodern world picture. The idea was to reconstitute the conditions for the emergence of public truth and, hence, public order.
Technology (or, better, technologies) plays an essential role in this story, but the role that it plays varies and shifts over time. Early on, for example, in the form of the printing press it accelerates the crisis of public knowledge, generating the pluralism of truth claims that undermine the old consensus. The same technology also comes to play a critical role in creating the conditions under which modern forms of public knowledge can emerge by sustaining the plausibility of a realm of cool, detached reason.
Consider as well how we impute to certain technologies the very characteristics we believe essential to public knowledge in the modern world (objectivity, neutrality, etc.). Think of photography, for example, and the degree to which we tend to believe that a photographic image is an objective and thus trustworthy representation of the truth of things. More recently, algorithms have been burdened with similar assumptions. Because they are cutting edge technologies feeding off of "raw data" some believe that they will necessarily yield unbiased and objectively true results. The problems with this view are, of course, well documented (here and here, for example).
The general progression has been to increasingly turn to technologies in order to better achieve the conditions under which we came to believe public knowledge could exist. Our crisis stems from the growing realization that our technologies themselves are not neutral or objective arbiters of public knowledge and, what's more, that they may now actually be used to undermine the possibility of public knowledge.
The point, then, is this: It's not that digital media necessarily leads to epistemic nihilism, it's that digital media leads to epistemic nihilism given the conditions for public knowledge that have held sway in the modern world. Seen in this light, digital media, like print before it, is helping dissolve an older intellectual and political order. It is doing so because the trajectory we set out on 400 years ago or so has more or less played itself out.
In other words, what if the technocratic strain within modern political culture, the drive to ground politics in truth (or facts) is actually the drive to transcend the political altogether? What if the age of electronic/mass media, the brief interregnum between the high water mark of the age of literacy and the digital age, was in some ways merely a momentary deviation from the norm during which politics could appear to be about consensus rather than struggle? In this light the political consequences of digital media might simply be characterized as the revenge of politics, although in a different and often disconcerting mode.
Here are a few lines from Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, which reveal the play's key plot device. Stay with me, it's going somewhere.
ALGERNON Well, that is exactly what dentists always do. Now, go on! Tell me the whole thing. I may mention that I have always suspected you of being a confirmed and secret Bunburyist; and I am quite sure of it now.
JACK Bunburyist? What on earth do you mean by a Bunburyist?
ALGERNON I'll reveal to you the meaning of that incomparable expression as soon as you are kind enough to inform me why you are Ernest in town and Jack in the country.
JACK My dear fellow, there is nothing improbable about my explanation at all. In fact it's perfectly ordinary. Old Mr. Thomas Cardew, who adopted me when I was a little boy, made me in his will guardian to his grand-daughter, Miss Cecily Cardew. Cecily, who addresses me as her uncle from motives of respect that you could not possibly appreciate, lives at my place in the country under the charge of her admirable governess, Miss Prism.
ALGERNON Where in that place in the country, by the way?
JACK That is nothing to you, dear boy. You are not going to be invited . . . I may tell you candidly that the place is not in Shropshire.
ALGERNON . I suspected that, my dear fellow! I have Bunburyed all over Shropshire on two separate occasions. Now, go on. Why are you Ernest in town and Jack in the country?
JACK My dear Algy, I don't know whether you will be able to understand my real motives. You are hardly serious enough. When one is placed in the position of guardian, one has to adopt a very high moral tone on all subjects. It's one's duty to do so. And as a high moral tone can hardly be said to conduce very much to either one's health or one's happiness, in order to get up to town I have always pretended to have a younger brother of the name of Ernest, who lives in the Albany, and gets into the most dreadful scrapes. That, my dear Algy, is the whole truth pure and simple.
ALGERNON What you really are is a Bunburyist. I was quite right in saying you were a Bunburyist. You are one of the most advanced Bunburyists I know.
JACK What on earth do you mean?
ALGERNON You have invented a very useful younger brother called Ernest, in order that you may be able to come up to town as often as you like. I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose. Bunbury is perfectly invaluable. If it wasn't for Bunbury's extraordinary bad health, for instance, I wouldn't be able to dine with you at Willis's to-night, for I have been really engaged to Aunt Augusta for more than a week.
Relatedly, take a moment to visit This Person Does Not Exist. The image you'll see is of a person who … does not exist. The image is generated by generative adversarial networks. Hit refresh and you'll get another.
After you've perused a few images, read Kyle McDonald's "How to recognize fake AI-generated images." Things to look for include weird teeth, asymmetry, surreal backgrounds, mismatched or missing earrings. That helps. For now.
The arc of digital media is bending toward epistemic nihilism, as I've been inclined to put it on Twitter; it amounts to a casual indifference to much of what has counted as evidence in recent memory. There is, of course, something decidedly Baudrillardian about this. But, of course, even to suggest that Baudrillard has something to tell us about our moment is to acknowledge that digital media has not necessarily initiated the trajectory, it has merely accelerated our descent, exponentially so perhaps.


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More Than Half of Malaysia Residents Likely to Give Up on Car Ownership, New Report Finds
A new report by Avis Budget Group, a leading global provider of mobility solutions, revealed that while the car's popularity will stay strong in the upcoming mobility shift, attitudes towards car ownership will change significantly. Almost all (97%) of residents in Malaysia surveyed think that owning a car is important and 67% still see the car as the ideal mode of transport. However, more than half (51%) said that they would consider giving up car ownership and rely on long-term car rental if it was convenient and easy for them.
The report, titled The Road Ahead: The Future of Mobility, examined the way in which the mobility landscape is changing around the world, how it is likely to look in the future and, how people in different countries view these changes.
In the research conducted across 16 countries in Europe and Asia, including Malaysia, respondents revealed that over the next decade, consumers are likely to move to an access-driven and on-demand model as their favourite mode of transportation.
The single biggest factor leading the transport revolution is technology, specifically 5G networks. Most recently, the Malaysia Government has started a nationwide demonstration of 5G projects that indicated it was on track to becoming one of the first Asian countries to launch the technology. Once implemented, the large amounts of data provided by the 5G networks will enable mobility companies to collect and mine data for insight, which can be used to improve travel experiences. To this point, Avis Budget Group's research revealed that 73% of respondents feel comfortable having their data accessed and shared for the implementation of smart infrastructure and better travel experience.
More than four-in-five (81%) of respondents also expect driving to become easier in the coming years
Keith Rankin, President, International, Avis Budget Group, said: "Driven by technology advancements and the influence of services like Amazon, Netflix and Spotify, people today want to consume and access products and services at the click of a button. The expectation for an on-demand service has impacted the mobility industry and resulted in the evolution we're seeing today - from being able to book a taxi instantly to hiring a car for a week-long holiday, all from your smartphone. However, our report reveals that we are now seeing a rise in this demand for instant access and flexibility, resulting in changing behaviours towards car ownership.
"Changing needs and the expansion of the sharing economy offer both challenges and opportunities for the mobility industry. Our research has shown that whilst consumers are expectant of connected, integrated and on-demand services, they still want convenience at a reasonable price.
"It's imperative that different mobility players work together to ensure the future needs of consumers are met. We have demonstrated the success of collaboration, as shown with our fleet management as a service (FMaaS) partnerships with Via and Lyft, and our agreements with Ford and Continental in providing connected cars. Our partnerships demonstrate well how the sector can work together to provide the on-demand and connected services that customers want. These can range from a technology giant delivering 5G, or local governments working with the private sector for improved, urban electric vehicle (EV) access for residents."
The Avis Budget Group Road Ahead: The Future of Mobility Report examined the current and near future mobility landscape across markets in Europe and Asia.
Link here - The Road Ahead - The Future of Mobility Report.pdf


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SUPREME COURT OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA
IN CIVIL (ARBITRATION LIST)
TULIP BAY PTY LTD
(Plaintiff)
STRUCTURAL MONITORING SYSTEMS LTD
(Defendant)
CORAM: Kenneth Martin J
HEARD: 13 June 2019
FILE NO: ARB 1 of 2019
CATCHWORDS: Arbitration – Failure by party to nominate their choice of arbitrator to panel of three – Court asked to appoint – Discretionary considerations – Urgency and expertise
Costs – Whether to lift scale limits – Considerations of urgency, importance and assistance of the court required – Scale lifted as to rate and amount
KENNETH MARTIN J:
(This judgment was delivered extemporaneously on 13 June 2019 and has been edited from the transcript.)
I have reached a decision in relation to the relief sought by the plaintiff applicant, Tulip Bay Pty Ltd ('Tulip Bay'), in respect of its originating application or originating summons, filed on 23 May 2019. Tulip Bay seeks that the court appoint an arbitrator in circumstances of – I use a loose term – the dysfunctionality of a clause in its Technology Agreement with the defendant, Structural Monitoring Systems Ltd (SMS) as regards the opposed appointment of an arbitrator to a panel of three.
I am asked to act pursuant to s 11(4)(a) of the Commercial Arbitration Act 2012 (WA), which provides for the appointment of arbitrators by a court in certain circumstances. Specifically, it says:
Where, under an appointment procedure agreed on by the parties –
(a) a party fails to act as required under the procedure; or
(b) the parties, or 2 or more arbitrators, are unable to reach an agreement expected of them under the procedure; or
(c) a third party, including an institution, fails to perform any function entrusted to it under the procedure,
any party may request the Court to take the necessary measure, unless the agreement on the appointment procedure provides other means for securing the appointment.
But I should first observe, while I am in that legislative neighbourhood, that s 11(6) of the Commercial Arbitration Act says:
The Court, in appointing an arbitrator, is to have due regard to any qualifications required of the arbitrator by the agreement of the parties and to such considerations as are likely to secure the appointment of an independent and impartial arbitrator.
The parties have put a considerable amount of material before me including, on behalf of Tulip Bay, Mr Shane Michael Gray's affidavit sworn 23 May 2019 and then a further affidavit of Mr Matthew James Keating sworn 7 June 2019. Tulip Bay filed written submissions in support of its application on 23 May 2019.
In response, and by way of contending that, in fact, I ought not to make any orders today other than programming orders to a special appointment some time off so that the matters in ostensible dispute over the nomination of an arbitrator can be argued even further (on the basis of future receipt of even further evidence), SMS filed the affidavit of Mr Alan Phillip Rumsley sworn 12 June 2019. Also received were the written submissions of the defendant which were only just filed this morning.
The arbitration agreement and the parties' positions
The relevant arbitration clause within the parties' written agreement (being the Technology Agreement see Mr Rumsley's affidavit APR1) of 29 November 1999 says this:
17.1 Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Deed, any dispute, controversy or claim arising out of, in relation to or in connection with this Deed or anything done or omitted to be done under this Deed, including (without limitation) any dispute as to the construction, interpretation, enforceability or breach of this Deed, shall be exclusively and finally settled by arbitration and any party may submit such a dispute, controversy or claim to arbitration.
17.2 A single arbitrator shall be appointed by unanimous consent of the parties. If, within fourteen (14) days of the submission of a notice of arbitration ("Submission Date") the parties cannot reach agreement on an arbitrator, the arbitration shall be heard and determined by three (3) arbitrators. The parties on each side of the dispute, controversy or claim shall appoint an arbitrator of its or their choice within thirty (30) days of the Submission Date. Within sixty (60) days of the Submission Date, the arbitrators appointed by the Parties shall in turn appoint a presiding arbitrator. If a party refuses to appoint an arbitrator within thirty (30) days of the Submission Date, or if the arbitrators appointed by the parties cannot reach agreement on a presiding arbitrator within sixty (60) of the Submission Date, the President of the Australian Institute of Arbitration may be requested by any party to make such appointment.
17.3 Unless otherwise agreed in writing by the parties to the arbitration proceedings:
17.3.1 the arbitration proceedings shall be held in Perth;
17.3.2 each arbitrator shall be and remain at all times wholly independent and impartial and shall not have any financial interest in the outcome of the dispute, controversy or claim;
17.3.3 where there is more than one arbitrator, all decisions and awards shall be made by majority vote of the arbitrators;
17.3.4 the arbitration proceedings shall be conducted in accordance with the Commercial Arbitration Act 1985 (WA); and
17.3.5 the party initiating the arbitration shall give a copy of the request for arbitration to each other party to this Deed.
The essential position is that Tulip Bay is pressing to receive what it claims as due to it as minimum royalties payments from SMS, pursuant to the Technology Agreement, of $617,844.57. This amount is sought as the minimum amount of royalties said to be due pursuant to cl 2.4 of the Technology Agreement across six successive financial years, ie, from 30 June 2013 through to 30 June 2018.
Tulip Bay, as applicant in seeking its disputed moneys from SMS, gave a notice of arbitration to SMS on 12 April 2019 – by reference to the terms of cl 17 of the Technology Agreement. As seen, the way the clause works allows SMS 30 days after receiving that notice to nominate its own arbitrator. In other words, absent agreement upon the parties using only one arbitrator (which needs to be unanimous), then by cl 17.2, each party to a relevant dispute must nominate their own arbitrator. Those two arbitrators then, in turn, get together to appoint a third arbitrator, who would be the presiding arbitrator in the panel.
Back on 12 April 2019, Tulip Bay nominated the Hon John Chaney SC, a former justice of this court, as its arbitrator. But SMS did not nominate anyone within that 30day time frame, or at all. Prima facie, it had 30 days to do so concluding 12 May 2019 – a date now long gone.
There has followed a series of correspondence passing back and forth between the parties through their legal representatives. Many submissions have been put by SMS objecting, in effect, against various aspects of Tulip Bay's attempt to ultimately engage a panel of three arbitrators, so as to proceed with what would be a further arbitration between these same parties.
History of the parties' arbitration
I have been taken, as background to the current application, to the reasons for decision in this court by former Chief Justice W Martin under Structural Monitoring Systems Ltd v Tulip Bay Pty Ltd [2017] WASC 379, dealing with ramifications or challenges arising in a previous arbitration between the parties conducted by their arbitrators Hannan, Clifford and Lord. See also the Court of Appeal's reasons provided to me affirming that first instance decision: Structural Monitoring Systems Ltd v Tulip Bay Pty Ltd [2019] WASCA 16.
In very short summary, the opposing arguments which have been put by Mr Rumsley for SMS, by his written submissions, which I have considered closely, would seek to raise matters about a potential abuse of process or Anshun estoppel arguments: see Port of Melbourne Authority v Anshun Pty Ltd [1981] HCA 45;(1981) 147 CLR 589. These claims arise by reference to what is contended to have been a prior opportunity (not taken up) for Tulip Bay to have pursued some of the present unpaid royalty claims for payments – by way of an amendment to the Tulip Bay counterclaim in the earlier arbitral proceedings.
To that end, I was taken to provisions within – and schedules to – the reasons for decision in the earlier arbitration reasons, by reference to Mr Keating's affidavit at pages 46, 55, 73,74 and 105.
However, the basal difficulty that I hold over SMS's objection submission is that the foreshadowed Anshun estoppel arguments or, indeed, even a higher level abuse of (arbitral) process argument, would still seem to me to fall within the province of a freshly appointed arbitral panel to consider and to resolve as a matter of jurisdiction. The merit or otherwise of such arguments would need then to be holistically evaluated by that panel by reference to all relevant underlying circumstances said to arise.
Disposition Section 11(4) considerations
From a jurisdictional perspective, an arbitral panel of three once appointed, as is now sought by Tulip Bay, is, on my assessment, perfectly capable of ultimately determining the merits or demerits of all SMS's foreshadowed arguments over royalty payment claims being not pressed for by counterclaim in the earlier arbitration and whether that should constitute either a basis for Tulip Bay being barred from presently proceeding with such a claim again in a further arbitration. These foreshadowed SMS arguments at present seem broadly to present as Anshun estoppel arguments. The full parameters of that doctrine, particularly as regards its intersections as between litigation and arbitration, on my assessment, are yet to be fully worked out. It is clear, however, that every situation is unique and requires its own bespoke evaluation.
What is also presently crystal clear is that an Anshun estoppel argument, in terms of its merits or demerits, is perfectly capable of being determined by a fresh arbitral panel. Such assertions do not, therefore, constitute any jurisdictional obstacle to impede this court from assisting today on the request made on behalf of Tulip Bay via s 11(4)(a) of the Commercial Arbitration Act.
First, I am satisfied as regards the request for arbitrator appointment assistance that the contractual machinery the parties set down under cl 17 of the Technology Agreement to resolve a deadlock regarding a party's failure to appoint an arbitrator in circumstances where three arbitrators are required has broken down.
Factually, it was wholly unchallenged before me that the issue with the roadblock clearing appointment mechanism the parties specified by their cl 17, namely, to delegate to the President of the Australian Institute of Arbitrators, is dysfunctional because is that no such institute exists presently. Moreover, it is questionable whether such an institute ever existed even when the parties' Technology Agreement was consummated as at 29 November 1999.
That being the case, the chosen cl 17 arbitral appointment deadlock breaking mechanism, in circumstances where SMS has to date declined to nominate anyone as its second arbitrator to a panel, has thereby thwarted the event of two respectively nominated arbitrators getting together to themselves appoint a third presiding arbitrator, under cl 17.2. The resultant arbitral appointment stalemate situation engages against the power of this court to assist the parties in that dysfunctional stalemate situation when requested by the appointment of an arbitrator, by s 11 of the Commercial Arbitration Act.
I am satisfied then that Tulip Bay may in these circumstances viably request the court to take the necessary measures in order to assist the parties to proceed with their arbitration. I render that observation in circumstances where it is plain that their arbitration bargain, the subject of cl 17 of their Technology Agreement, gives primacy to the medium of arbitration as their chosen mechanism of dispute resolution.
Moreover, the parties' choice and submission to the process of arbitration under cl 17 (and, indeed, by the same parties under a very similar cl 19 in a predecessor agreement) was made in the widest possible terms concerning what genre of dispute between them could be referred. To that end, I refer within cl 17(1), its textual reference to
… any dispute, controversy or claim arising out of, in relation to or in connection with this Deed or anything done or omitted to be done under this Deed including (without limitation)…
and the clause continues, as earlier seen.
It is apparent that, objectively assessed, the breadth of that language shows the parties' bargain for submission of disputes, controversies and claims was in the broadest terms.
Mr Keating, by his oral submissions on behalf of Tulip Bay, helpfully took me to various provisions of the Commercial Arbitration Act, which all point to or encapsulate the underlying policy importance of holding parties to their arbitration bargain. Many prior judgments of this court have addressed that topic. The underlying international convention is given effect to by Western Australia and, as well, the various other States and, indeed, the Commonwealth of Australia all seeking, in effect, to together enshrine through that counterpart legislation across this nation a regime that holds parties to that international convention that gives primacy to arbitral bargains. That is a significant policy consideration.
A further significant underlying policy consideration is that arbitral bargains when sought to be engaged need to be implemented speedily. The pathway to an arbitral resolution must not be allowed to be obstructed by delays or technical roadblocks as one too frequently encounters within litigation. The local legislation carries a clear policy objective within the Commercial Arbitration Act that where courts are called upon for assistance to engage the arbitral process, there is a need for courts to do everything reasonably feasible to assist the parties to uphold and pursue their arbitral bargains and to make sure that an arbitration can proceed not only fairly, but efficiently.
Consequently then, notwithstanding that my consideration of the materials that have just been put before me by SMS (through Mr Rumsley via his affidavit), none of that can inhibit the assistance relief presently sought. I do emphasise, of course, that I am not expressing any views about the merits of SMS's Anshun estoppel or abuse of process concerns. Those arguments if pursued by SMS will be for the arbitral panel once engaged to rule upon and resolve. That panel might even resolve (theoretically) to make a reference back to a court over a particular issue or issues if seen as problematic, assuming there is consent to that end and the court agrees to take it up. I say nothing more about that. But the relevant provision in the Commercial Arbitration Act I was taken to by Mr Keating in argument (s 27J) indicates that is a possibility.
Section 11(6) considerations
The remaining question then, in circumstances where I assess this to be a matter of some urgency, is to consider s 11(6) of the Commercial Arbitration Act in terms of the actual appointment by this court of a second arbitrator – in circumstances where two arbitrators, once engaged, will then appoint a third presiding arbitrator under this bargain.
Tulip Bay, has suggested that Mr Scott Ellis, a well-qualified local barrister who has conducted many arbitrations, be appointed, effectively as the second arbitrator to join the Hon John Chaney SC in the panel. They together then would appoint the third arbitrator, as envisaged.
Correspondingly, SMS, as a default option submission has said through Mr Rumsley's affidavit that if the court is minded to assist the parties by nominating another arbitrator today (as it is) then SMS points to a need, in the present dispute, for a patent attorney or someone holding scientific experience to be engaged within the panel. To that end, SMS identified through an appendage to Mr Rumsley's affidavit a patent attorney with Wrays, a Mr Todd Shand, as a more appropriate appointee to the panel. Appended APR7 to Mr Rumsley's affidavit are Mr Shand's qualifications, industry practice areas, educational background and professional affiliations.
Mr Shand, on paper, holds impressive qualifications in science, including an honours degree in chemistry. He holds a Diploma of Intellectual Property Practice and also holds a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Western Australia. The material before me also indicates his extensive engagement with patent litigation and his collaborations in his fields over the years in respect of complicated scientific issues.
The question for me then, now that I have reached the position that I have, is to weigh the choice, by reference to s 11(6), as between Mr Ellis as a well-known and well-respected barrister over many years, to join the Hon John Chaney SC – or whether it is more appropriate under present circumstances to appoint Mr Shand, who I am told from the bar table by Mr Rumsley (without objection from Tulip Bay) is available to take such an appointment if the court is so minded to order to that end.
I re-emphasise again that s 11(6) speaks of the court having due regard to any qualifications required of an arbitrator by the agreement of the parties and to such considerations as are likely to secure the appointment of an independent and impartial arbitrator.
Here then, I am strongly influenced by the fact that it seems that an ultimate panel of three arbitrators that needs to be eventually engaged would undoubtedly benefit from holding a combination of expertise, not just legal expertise towards interpreting the provisions of a commercial contract, but also some specialist patent familiarity expertise and as well a level of specialist scientific knowledge – in order to potentially engage across all dimensions of the foreshadowed arguments in the forthcoming dispute. The disputes to be resolved here may be over whether there is a sufficient nexus as between a patent or patents (including to patents now expired), or a nexus to one or more products said to have been derived by reference to work done, in reference to patents or to expired patents – evaluated by the panel for the purposes of a triggering (or not) of the underlying legal obligation to render a royalty payment to Tulip Bay under cl 2.4 of the Technology Agreement.
It seems to me, in the end, that a combination of diverse expertise is desirable in this arbitral panel. There is already the significant legal expertise delivered through the existing appointment of the Hon John Chaney SC, as regards contractual construction and interpretation issues. Bearing in mind the foreshadowed patent lapse arguments and product nexus considerations which may arise in the overall consideration concerning products and the other scientific considerations which could arise in the overall evaluation, I am, with no disrespect to Mr Ellis, presently more persuaded, particularly by reference to s 11(6), to accept SMS's fall-back request and so, to appoint Mr Todd Shand as the second arbitrator. He then, in conjunction with the Hon John Chaney SC, will decide upon who that panel's third arbitrator should be. Those circumstances should assist to break the presently existing deadlock between the parties – as regards them getting on with the resolution of their disputes under arbitration, which to date has unnecessarily been held up since April this year on a basis of the parties' inability to date to yet constitute a panel of three arbitrators.
As regards to costs, the ordinary order, in terms of the successful party receiving their costs of a contested application, should be made and, indeed, that orthodox costs outcome was not really opposed in principle by Mr Rumsley for SMS.
The only costs related question in dispute was whether the scale limits made otherwise applicable in the circumstances towards a taxation conducted by the plaintiff, if necessary, ought be lifted or not. In my view, they should.
I reach that position by reference to the urgency of the matter, the importance of the matter to the parties – which was demonstrable – the need for appointment assistance of the court that has been called upon to render via s 11, to effectively resolve an obstacle to the enforcement of the parties' arbitral bargain and a very significant amount of documentary material that I needed to urgently consider over previous days and, indeed, this morning – in terms of evaluating what in more usual circumstances would have been a fairly straightforward situation where parties ask the count to appoint their arbitrator.
I am also satisfied that it is not appropriate under present circumstances for there to be an indemnity cost award as Tulip Bay sought. But I do assess that the voluminous nature of the submitted materials and the urgent circumstances in which they needed to be considered, together persuade me that s 280(2) of the Legal Profession Act 2008 (WA) is met here, in terms of special circumstances being established justifying the scale limits (the otherwise applicable scale limits) being lifted both as to rate and total amount.
Of course, in saying all that, any ensuing costs exercise is completely one for the taxing officer to evaluate, assuming the parties cannot agree on their costs as, indeed, they sensibly should. But if they cannot, and if a taxation has to be conducted, then I am only preserving a potential for Tulip Bay, if appropriate, to not be constrained by the scale – under circumstances where a taxing officer might come to a view that those limits are not sufficient in order for justice to be done in the circumstances as regards a taxed costs award.
I have been satisfied then that there is material before me of voluminous content that persuades me that the scale limits may not be sufficient in order to provide appropriately just costs compensation. I say no more about it than that, other than the fact that the potentiality persuades me a special order should be made.
I certify that the preceding paragraph(s) comprise the reasons for decision of the Supreme Court of Western Australia.
Research Associate/Orderly to the Honourable Justice Martin
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Med Sci Monit 2017; 23:6082-6088
BACKGROUND: Alcohol consumption is a high-risk factor for several medical disorders and traffic accidents and poses a burden on outpatient clinics and emergency units. We aimed to assess the pattern of alcohol screening among patients in a multicultural setting in a national referral hospital in an Arab Middle-Eastern country.
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Trips and vacations are a great time to indulge a little, but airport and travel food isn't always the best. If you eat mostly real food at home, going on a trip can really mess with your digestion and make a fun trip less fun. Here are some of the things I packed for my trip to VidCon to keep me feeling good on the flight over and during the event.


Face ID on the iPhone XS is already one of the most advanced facial recognition systems you'll find on a phone, but it could be even better on the iPhone XI.
According to the famed analyst of all things Apple, Ming-Chi Kuo, and reported by MacRumors, all 2019 iPhone models will have a new flood illuminator, which will reduce the impact of invisible light from the surrounding environment when using Face ID.
Kuo doesn't go into detail on what effect that will have, simply saying that it will "improve the Face ID user experience", but it sounds like it would increase the reliability of the Face ID system.
Kuo's latest note also talks about the possibility of a Time of Flight (ToF) camera being added to the iPad range in late 2019 or early 2020, likely meaning the next iPad Pro model would get it.
A ToF camera can judge the distance between objects by measuring the time-of-flight of a light or laser signal between the camera and the subject. So it's good for judging depth, and Kuo believes the system could be used to capture 3D models, which users could then edit using the Apple Pencil.
He reckons there's a "greater than 50% probability" that such a camera will be added to a new iPad by early 2020, but adds that the iPhone XI probably won't get a ToF camera. However, he believes that the 2020 iPhone might and that on the iPhone it would create new augmented reality experiences and improve photo quality.
As with all rumors, we'd take these with a pinch of salt, especially as they're talking about devices that are a long way from launch. But Kuo has a good track record, so he may well be right.


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Q: Google maps classes not showing in Import-Package in MANIFEST.MF I'm using the maven-bundle-plugin and trying to bundle Google maps dependency.
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.felix</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-bundle-plugin</artifactId>
            <extensions>true</extensions>
            <configuration>
                <instructions>
                    <Bundle-ClassPath>*;scope=compile|runtime</Bundle-ClassPath>

                    <Embed-Dependency>*;scope=compile|runtime</Embed-Dependency>
                    <Embed-Directory>OSGI-INF/lib</Embed-Directory>
                    <Import-Package>
                        *
                    </Import-Package>
                    <_exportcontents>
                                *
                    </_exportcontents>
                </instructions>
            </configuration>
        </plugin>

When I inspect the JAR (Manifest.MF) I can see com.google.maps.model in Export-Package but not in Import-Package. How can I get it in the Import-Package as well?
This question is linked to a previously unresolved question How to import a class from third party jar file in an OSGi component

A: Well, there shouldn't be anything in the Import-Package here, as you're not importing the google maps classes, you are embedding them. You're packing the google jar inside your own bundle, and Import-Package applies only when you want to use those classes exported from another bundle.
As of the other question, I'm not entirely sure (I don't use the maven bundle plugin at all) but the 'exportcontents *' seems suspect, exporting too much can lead to subtle problems.
I'd say start by exporting nothing and add packages as needed.

A: If you are embedding the jar in your bundle and want to access its classes, use the Include-Resource instruction, it has an option to unroll a JAR resource (see @ option)

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Director Biography – Ramya Nambessan (UNHIDE)
Ramya Nambessan is a multi-faceted talent. From being an accomplished film actress she is a classical dancer and a trained singer too. From playback singer to director of short movies Ramya has been successful in all her ventures.
With more than 60 films to her credit she has crooned more than 15 songs. Born in 1986 to an art loving parents at Chottannikara, Kerala, India. Ramya entered the filmdom as a child artiste. From Chappakurishu in Malayalam to the stupendous hits like Pizza and Sethupathi in Tamil, Ramya has acted in films belong all the South Indian language films.
She has given classical dance performances all around the globe and has always been a part of any major South indian Filmfare. She presently curates and produces videos for her YouTube channel Ramya Nambessan Encore. Ramya is an active founder member of Women in Cinema Collective (WCC) an ace organization championing the cause of gender equality in cinema. She is eloquent in the topic and voices her opinion in concerned platforms.
Unhide is a message oriented one. About the trials and tribulations faced by women in the society. The three minute long video begins with a woman's dressing and puts light on if women need to cover themselves than covering the eyes of a pervert. The video further emphasizes on how important it is to get a woman's consent.
Short Film: UNHIDE, 3min., India, Experimental
Short Film: WHEN THE WOLF'S AWAY, 12min., France, Drama