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China's electric vehicles set for bumpy ride
Kieran Cooke
Energy, Cities and Climate Change, Culture and Leadership, environmental impact
Sales of electric vehicles in China are picking up speed, but there are lots of obstacles on the road ahead.
The Chinese government wants to increase the number of electric vehicles on the nation's roads to 5 million by 2020.
The statistics are impressive: sales of electric vehicles (EVs) in China are likely to reach 400,000 this year, a more than 150% increase on the figure for 2015.
China is now the world's largest EV market. The government has big ambitions for the sector, setting a target of increasing the number of EVs on the nation's roads to 5 million by 2020.
China's EV policy is being driven by an urgent need to cut back on the serious air pollution while at the same time taking a world lead in the fast-expanding global EV market.
With transport estimated to account for about 10% of China's total emissions of greenhouse gases, promoting the increased use of EVs is seen by many as an important way of combating climate change.
China's EV policy is being driven by other factors: there is an urgent need to cut back on the serious air pollution that blights many cities, and the country's planners are eager to take a world lead in the fast-expanding global EV market.
Uphill task
But while China – the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases – is trying hard to decarbonise its transport sector, weaning people away from polluting internal combustion engines will be an uphill task.
According to official statistics, at the end of last year there were just under 280 million vehicles in China, more than 60% of them cars. China is now the world's biggest car market, with over 20 million cars being added to the country's already crowded roads in 2015.
EVs in China only account for just a little over 1% of the total car market compared to Norway's 22%
Though sales of EVs are rising fast, they still account for just a little over 1% of the total car market. In comparison, in Norway, EVs have a 22% market share.
Government measures aimed at encouraging EV use have met with limited success. Generous subsidies have been given to EV manufacturers, sometimes amounting to 60% of the sales price of vehicles.
While some manufacturers have used the subsidy regime to build up solid EV businesses – investing in new production processes and developing technology – others have set up companies solely to take advantage of government handouts.
Recently, the government imposed quota requirements on vehicle manufacturers, stipulating that they must produce a certain ratio of EV or hybrid vehicles.
There are now more than 200 EV companies in China, producing 4,000 brands of cars and other vehicles. Scandals have come to light in which companies grabbed subsidies but produced nothing.
New government regulations – which include stipulations on levels of technology investment and warnings of a withdrawal of subsidies in future years – are predicted to cause a massive shakeout in the market. Analysts talk of an EV "bubble" that is about to burst.
Analysts talk of an EV "bubble" that is about to burst.
Chinese policymakers have also been trying to lower vehicle emissions across the entire vehicle sector by setting increasingly stringent kilometre per litre fuel requirements.
The results have been mixed. Some big manufacturers producing both internal combustion vehicles and EVs have simply increased production of zero-emission EVs in order to offset emissions from other vehicles.
Analysts say that as a result there is little sign that conventionally powered vehicles are becoming more fuel-efficient or that emissions are being lowered.
…a big problem associated with China's EV developmentis that China is still largely dependent on coal for its electricity supply.
There is another big problem associated with EV development: despite rapid expansion of its renewable energy sector, China is still largely dependent on coal for its electricity supply.
Some analysts point out that, in the short term at least, a wholesale expansion of the EV market could drive up rather than reduce greenhouse gas emissions. They say power plants should be cleaned up before further expanding EV sales.
Ratio of EVs
But Chinese leaders seem determined to achieve EV targets. Recently, the government imposed quota requirements on vehicle manufacturers, stipulating that they must produce a certain ratio of EV or hybrid vehicles.
The new regulations are causing considerable consternation among some foreign car manufacturers, particularly German firms, which have a sizable slice of the Chinese market.
Though brands such as VW and BMW are popular in China, they have been slow to develop EVs in comparison with their Japanese and American rivals, and when quotas come into force they risk a big drop in sales.
The outlook is especially difficult for VW, which recently cut 30,000 jobs in Germany and elsewhere in order to save costs following multibillion dollar payouts because of a scandal over falsified emissions.
VW has become largely dependent for sales growth on the Chinese market. Last year it sold 3 million cars in China – four out of every 10 vehicles made by the company.
This article first appeared on Climate News Network
Kieran Cooke, is a founding editor of Climate News Network and is a former foreign correspondent for the BBC and Financial Times. He now focuses on environmental issues.
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Is Singapore's real estate industry ready to roar again?
There are signs that the Lion State's investors might be waking up
This year was a big one for Singapore. The Little Red Dot mourned its revered founding leader Lee Kuan Yew and also marked its 50th year of independence. Also hitting headlines, however, has been the state of its property market, which continues to indicate more signs of gloom than boom.
The stasis is at least party attributable to the People's Action Party (PAP) government, which introduced a succession of cooling measures back in 2013 in response to an overheating market and also growing local disgruntlement over rising living and housing costs. Pressure has been put on the government – which was re-elected in September's general election – by developers and investors to scale back the cooling measures currently in place. Still, there has been no indication of an imminent change of policy.
With a population of more than 5 million, Singapore is well known for its wealth, modernity and scrubbed-up shiny surface. Affluence is certainly on display around the island from the gated communities of Sentosa Cove to the decadent designer boutiques lining famed shopping belt Orchard Road. But it's a country also loved for its liveability. There's excellent local hawker food, and affordable public transport.
The roots of Singapore's property boom can be traced back to the wake of the Asian Financial Crash in 1997. During the recovery the Singaporean government ramped up efforts to present itself as a global finance and banking hub, offering tax incentives to attract foreign companies and easing rules and lowering interest rates for foreign land ownership. It also began selling swathes of reclaimed land. Investors took the bait and construction of luxury condominiums boomed.
Many Singaporeans take immense pride in the transformation of their country. "I love Singapore in many ways," says Alice Tan, head of consultancy and research at Knight Frank Singapore. "I'm especially proud of its continuous pursuit of ensuring quality in physical infrastructure and building assets, the clarity in our institutional and legal framework, and the way we have fostered excellence in whatever domains we work on. These factors have helped enable a fast-growing and high quality real estate landscape."
Yet as more foreigners have poured into Singapore, the rising cost of housing has become a focal area of discontent.
City fringe areas in Singapore are poised to capture attention of homebuyers who want to live in zones covered by the expanding MRT network
Although she firmly believes that investment sentiment for Singapore real estate will remain attractive for both locals and foreigners, Tan admits that the demographic and economic issues of population growth, income stability, inflation and cost of living were all significant market-influencing factors.
She also notes that Singapore's private homes market has seen seven consecutive quarters of decline following implementation of property cooling measures.
These measures include a cap on debt repayment costs at 60 percent of a borrower's monthly income, higher stamp duties and increased real estate taxes. The total tax for foreigners is now 18 percent.
Under the Residential Property Act, foreign developers now need to complete construction within five years of purchasing land and sell all units two years after that. Failing to do so will mean having to apply for extensions and paying charges of 8 to 24 percent a year on the value of all unsold units. Further, if one wants to resell a property within a year of purchase, 16 percent of the sale price must be paid. This drops to 12 percent after two years and decreases gradually after that.
But investors and developers are finding a silver lining through going private to avoid penalties for unsold, unfinished projects, analysts say.
Read full story on : http://www.property-report.com/is-singapores-real-estate-industry-ready-to-roar-again/

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package samples.testng;

import org.powermock.core.classloader.annotations.PrepareForTest;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;
import samples.system.SystemClassUser;

import java.net.InetAddress;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLConnection;
import java.net.URLEncoder;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.LinkedList;
import java.util.List;

import static org.easymock.EasyMock.anyLong;
import static org.easymock.EasyMock.expect;
import static org.powermock.api.easymock.PowerMock.*;
import static org.testng.Assert.assertSame;
import static org.testng.Assert.assertTrue;
import static org.testng.AssertJUnit.assertEquals;

/**
 * Demonstrates PowerMock's ability to mock non-final and final system classes.
 * To mock a system class you need to prepare the calling class for testing.
 * I.e. let's say you're testing class A which interacts with URLEncoder then
 * you would do:
 *
 * <pre>
 *
 * @PrepareForTest({A.class})
 *
 * </pre>
 */
@PrepareForTest( { SystemClassUser.class })
public class SystemClassUserTest {

    @Test
    public void assertThatMockingOfNonFinalSystemClassesWorks() throws Exception {
        mockStatic(URLEncoder.class);

        expect(URLEncoder.encode("string", "enc")).andReturn("something");
        replayAll();

        assertEquals("something", new SystemClassUser().performEncode());

        verifyAll();
    }

    @Test
    public void assertThatMockingOfTheRuntimeSystemClassWorks() throws Exception {
        mockStatic(Runtime.class);

        Runtime runtimeMock = createMock(Runtime.class);
        Process processMock = createMock(Process.class);

        expect(Runtime.getRuntime()).andReturn(runtimeMock);
        expect(runtimeMock.exec("command")).andReturn(processMock);

        replayAll();

        assertSame(processMock, new SystemClassUser().executeCommand());

        verifyAll();
    }

    @Test
    public void assertThatMockingOfFinalSystemClassesWorks() throws Exception {
        mockStatic(System.class);

        expect(System.getProperty("property")).andReturn("my property");

        replayAll();

        assertEquals("my property", new SystemClassUser().getSystemProperty());

        verifyAll();
    }

    @Test
    public void assertThatPartialMockingOfFinalSystemClassesWorks() throws Exception {
        mockStaticPartial(System.class, "nanoTime");

        expect(System.nanoTime()).andReturn(2L);

        replayAll();

        new SystemClassUser().doMoreComplicatedStuff();

        assertEquals("2", System.getProperty("nanoTime"));

        verifyAll();
    }

    @Test
    public void assertThatMockingOfCollectionsWork() throws Exception {
        List<?> list = new LinkedList<Object>();
        mockStatic(Collections.class);

        Collections.shuffle(list);
        expectLastCall().once();

        replayAll();

        new SystemClassUser().shuffleCollection(list);

        verifyAll();
    }

    @Test
    public void assertThatPartialMockingOfFinalSystemClassesWorksForNonVoidMethods() throws Exception {
        mockStaticPartial(System.class, "getProperty");

        expect(System.getProperty("property")).andReturn("my property");

        replayAll();

        final SystemClassUser systemClassUser = new SystemClassUser();
        systemClassUser.copyProperty("to", "property");

        verifyAll();
    }

    @Test
    public void assertThatMockingStringWorks() throws Exception {
        mockStatic(String.class);
        final String string = "string";
        final String args = "args";
        final String returnValue = "returnValue";

        expect(String.format(string, args)).andReturn(returnValue);

        replayAll();

        final SystemClassUser systemClassUser = new SystemClassUser();
        assertEquals(systemClassUser.format(string, args), returnValue);

        verifyAll();
    }

    @Test
    public void mockingStaticVoidMethodWorks() throws Exception {
        mockStatic(Thread.class);

        Thread.sleep(anyLong());
        expectLastCall().once();

        replayAll();

        long startTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
        final SystemClassUser systemClassUser = new SystemClassUser();
        systemClassUser.threadSleep();
        long endTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
        assertTrue(endTime - startTime < 5000);

        verifyAll();
    }

    @Test
    public void mockingInstanceMethodOfFinalSystemClassWorks() throws Exception {
        URL url = createMock(URL.class);
        URLConnection urlConnection = createMock(URLConnection.class);

        expect(url.openConnection()).andStubReturn(urlConnection);

        replayAll();
        final SystemClassUser systemClassUser = new SystemClassUser();
        assertSame(urlConnection, systemClassUser.useURL(url));
        verifyAll();
    }

    @Test
    public void mockingURLWorks() throws Exception {
        URL url = createMock(URL.class);
        URLConnection urlConnectionMock = createMock(URLConnection.class);

        expect(url.openConnection()).andReturn(urlConnectionMock);

        replayAll();

        assertSame(url.openConnection(), urlConnectionMock);

        verifyAll();
    }

    @Test
    public void mockingInetAddressWorks() throws Exception {
        final InetAddress mock = createMock(InetAddress.class);
        mockStatic(InetAddress.class);

        expect(InetAddress.getLocalHost()).andReturn(mock);

        replayAll();

        final SystemClassUser systemClassUser = new SystemClassUser();
        assertSame(mock, systemClassUser.getLocalHost());

        verifyAll();
    }
}

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Global Animals Donate $6000 To Feed Tripoli Zoo Animals
New pictures from Libya's Tripoli Zoo tell the inspiring story of animal advocacy in action. A thirsty lion at the Tripoli Zoo takes a drink from a caretaker as part of the ongoing care sponsored by nonprofit animal welfare organizations. Photo credit: IFAW
Please join us in celebrating this extraordinary success at the Tripoli Zoo in Libya.
Global Animal readers have been donating to the feeding and care of the animals at the Tripoli Zoo who were abandoned during Libya's recent conflict. Today, Global Animal Foundation sent $6,000 in donations to the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) to help pay for food, water, and medical care for the animal residents at Tripoli Zoo.
Thanks to animal lovers worldwide who rallied to get help to the abandoned zoo animals, as well as the swift action of animal welfare organizations like IFAW, the zoo's animals are all now receiving daily care. What a gratifying example of what can be done when people take action on behalf of animals in crisis.
The zoo is adjacent to Gadhafi's former compound of Bab al-Aziziya in the heart of Tripoli. Fearing for their own lives, most zoo staff fled the area, leaving the animals to fend for themselves.
Lunchtime for a tortoise at Libya's Tripoli Zoo as part of the ongoing relief effort by animal welfare organizations like IFAW. Global Animal Foundation is honored to be supporting IFAW's emergency efforts to ensure the animals receive food, water, and care on an ongoing basis.Photo credit: IFAW
Lions, hyenas, hippos, deer, monkeys and many other animals survived the cross-fire of last month's conflict, but were left with the consequences of war. The lack of food and water quickly became a life-threatening emergency for the approximately 1,000 animals at the Tripoli Zoo.
Animal welfare organizations mobilized under unstable conditions and, by September 7, a critical lifeline was in place to get food, water and medical care to the zoo. It is an honor for Global Animal Foundation to support IFAW's work on the ground at the Tripoli Zoo.
Recent photos, included here, show a dramatic change for the zoo's animals that's worthy of celebration.
The following update on the Tripoli Zoo effort was provided to Global Animal Foundation today by Ashley Moore Baker of IFAW. Among the good news:
The water supply is now good
All animals are being fed daily
Medicine has arrived at the zoo
The zoo director and several staff are at the zoo looking after the animals
IFAW representative Dr. Abdelmoula visits the Tripoli Zoo daily to check on progress
Three weeks ago: Hippos in dire circumstances without water in Libya's Tripoli zoo.
NOW: Hippos at Tripoli Zoo immerse themselves in plentiful water and receive daily care and feeding, thanks to ongoing relief efforts. Photo credit: IFAW
In this video, Dr. Ian Robinson of the International Fund for Animal Welfare gives an update on the continuing progress at the Tripoli Zoo.
Saving the animals at the Tripoli Zoo is a shared success for all who gave voice to their suffering and responded so generously. It is also an ongoing effort. The cost of providing food to Tripoli Zoo animals is about $2,000 per day.
Please consider supporting the continual care of the zoo's residents with a donation to Global Animal Foundation's Tripoli Zoo Program. All donations are earmarked specifically for Tripoli's animals and go directly to on the ground care at the zoo.
Thank you once again, Global Animal readers! Your compassion in action and support of Global Animal Foundation is saving lives of animals in crisis.
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Labour turns to agri, construction as manufacturing fails to create jobs
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Vijay Mathur: An opportunity too big to be missed!
The country needs someone to do to aviation what Indira Gandhi did to the automobile industry
Vijay Mathur Last Updated at January 21, 2013 06:21 IST
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India has the opportunity today to do in aviation what it did in the automobile industry in the eighties and nineties. In those two decades, a whole new industrial sector at a much higher level of technology was created. Though the need for a small car for a mass, low-cost market was first proposed in 1958, it was Indira Gandhi who first brought about the change in mindset required to successfully induct Suzuki in a joint venture with a public sector company — Maruti Udyog. As the focused and decisive driver behind this project, she completely changed the earlier, outdated mindset, and then oversaw all the policy changes needed.
She offered Suzuki a 40 per cent stake in Maruti — a major shift in approach at that time. It is ironic that 28 years later, despite a much stronger economic base now, as well as ample evidence to support higher foreign equity in a whole host of sectors, we are still ambivalent on this issue.
The first thing Mrs Gandhi did then was to handpick a proven manager and give him the freedom and the confidence to push through all the policy changes needed, and then bring the project to fruition. In the process, she also enabled the creation of an auto ancillary industrial base that today earns the economy billions of dollars of foreign exchange, and has placed India at the forefront of technology in the global automobile world. In recent times, Delhi Metro and Sridharan have again demonstrated the success of such a model.
With the escalating demands of national security in a dangerous neighbourhood, the country now needs to replicate similar success in aviation manufacturing — defence as well as civil. In parallel with the growth in defence needs, the huge growth in civil aviation also creates a large market for aviation technology and services. Moreover, as our labour costs rise and capabilities become more sophisticated, our industry needs to move up the value chain.
The ongoing visit of President Obama, and the impending visits of Presidents Sarkozy and Medvedev underline that all the latest technologies needed are on offer. What we need to do is to choose wisely, and then facilitate their induction as quickly and efficiently as possible through their embedment here. Embedment in India is the key, and offsets are the way forward. What then does this involve?
First, we need to recognise that technology resides in the minds of technologists, not in a set of drawings. Therefore, we need to look for the best and quickest ways to create a whole set of world-class technologists who can bring us to the cutting edge of technology over the next decade, and then keep us there. This implies creating attractive career options for bright, young candidates in an organisation headed by an acknowledged manager who will guide the organisation over a long term. The only way to achieve this is to create dynamic organisations in this sector — large, medium and small-scale levels through leveraging our inherent entrepreneurial talent. HAL provides the immediate opportunity, but it will need to be empowered and enabled to do so.
For historical reasons, we have created a number of aviation R&D institutions that are distinct from, and independent of, any manufacturing base. We need to recognise that design and development experts have different skill sets from production and manufacturing technology experts. To produce a finished product on time, in budget, in the quantities needed, and most importantly, with the downstream customer support base in place, requires both teams to work under one corporate entity. Therefore, the type of organisations referred to above would unite both these streams.
Next, given the wide spread of technologies involved in aircraft development, there is need to spin off development and production of airframes, engines and avionics into separate entities — again on the lines existing in the major aircraft companies in Europe and Russia. This implies a significant restructuring and reorganisation of manufacturing majors like HAL, as well as creating many new organisations that should be joint ventures negotiated under the offsets programme.
Since the technologies and manufacturing capacities involved are both capital- and human-intensive, such organisations alone can nurture and support these activities consistently, and over the long term. Recruitment, career development and retirement cannot follow the conventional government/public sector model. Brilliant aircraft designers like Kelly Johnson of Lockheed or Mikoyan of MiG and the design teams they nurtured cannot be limited to and governed by standard service conditions.
As a logical extension of this, we must rethink the present investment models we use or else we will have a predictable mismatch between actual achievement and the urgently needed objectives and timelines.
Finally, the new capacity and capability must address both civil and military applications. That alone can overcome the uneven flow of orders that addressing only defence needs entails. The present restrictions on HAL, for instance, prevent existing capability from being adequately marketed and utilised by the civil aviation market. As past experience with HAL highlights, we hamstring it by not freeing it up to restructure and reorganise itself to meet the large and challenging needs of the future.
To conclude, it is equally important to understand that the huge opportunities that our present offset programme offers go well beyond HAL and its current vendor base. The crucial FGFA programme with Russia will need such a deep and widespread manufacturing base to support it, and if we do not act now, we will only jeopardise its critically needed success.
Will Mrs Gandhi's successor as the driver of such an important national programme please stand up — the country, its industry and its defence forces are waiting?
First Published: Tue, November 09 2010. 00:25 IST


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What Doesn't Break You Makes You Stronger
Interview by Billy Shore
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What is the catalyst that makes us want to make a difference? Teach For America DC region Executive Director Adele Fabrikant and Rose's Luxury head chef Seth Wells join Debbie and Billy Shore to discuss educational inequality, developing leadership and service to community. Fabrikant talks about her 20-year career in public education. "When you see the inequities that you see when you teach in the South Bronx after growing up as privileged as I did, you cannot walk away, you cannot turn and go back to the originally scheduled programming," she explains about her early experience with Teach For America. Wells is currently preparing for his first Chefs Cycle for No Kid Hungry. "I'm at a point now where there's always more to learn in the business, but I would like to be able to give back to the community through what I do and make that part of my mission," he declares.
Fabrikant tells a story about struggling to teach a young boy with extreme anger issues in the South Bronx. "One of the most challenging things is the self-doubt. I feel like that was my loss," she laments. Wells understands the sentiment within the context of his own work and uses it to become a better chef and leader. "If you feel that comfortable that you're crushing your job every single day, I don't know what that feels like. I think self-doubt is important. It's part of becoming a leader," he says.
Get personal with these two guests as they discuss how leaders develop their skills and what drives them to want
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Head chef at Rose's Luxury. Before Rose's he was at Iron Gate Inn and Minibar by Jose Andres. A quiet thrill seeker, he's thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail and cycles to and from work every day — even in the winter. He is described as the guy you want to have by your side if you're stranded on a desert island or in back-country woods. Wells is a veteran of Chefs Cycle, riding 300 miles in 3 days to raise money for No Kid Hungry.
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Executive director for the DC region of Teach For America. Adele graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1999. Her teaching career began as a corps member of Teach For America working with second graders in the South Bronx of New York. After earning her Masters in Educational Leadership from Teachers College at Columbia University in 2004, Adele led instructional and school design for high school students through several non-profit organizations. Adele served as the founding principal of an alternative high school in Brooklyn, New York. As the Deputy Chief of Youth Engagement at DC Public Schools, Adele oversaw policy and program for the district's most under-served populations. In 2015, Adele joined Teach For America's D.C. Region as the Executive Director and graduated with a Doctorate in Education. Her dissertation focused on student-centered school district leadership.
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WIK-FTC is een gymnastiekvereniging uit Heerenveen. De vereniging werd opgericht op 21 juni 1872. De letters van de naam staan voor Willen is Kunnen - Fryso Tyr Combinatie. De vereniging ontstond in 1925 door een fusie van Gymnastiekvereeniging F.T.C. (Friso Tyr Combinatie) uit 1919 en de Dames Gymnastiek Vereeniging Willen Is Kunnen (W.I.K.) uit 1906.

De club biedt een breed aanbod van gymnastische activiteiten:
 Acrogym
 Gymnastiek
 Ritmische gymnastiek
 Trampolinespringen
 Turnen

De lessen worden gegeven in gymnastieklokalen en in de turnhal en sporthallen van Sportstad Heerenveen
Bij de vereniging trainden vroeger Herre en Epke Zonderland uit Lemmer, Berber van den Berg, Loes Linders en Annelies Nijdam uit Oldeboorn. In de zeventiger jaren van de twintigste eeuw had de club ook een handbalafdeling.
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In 1999 won WIK-FTC de Fryske Sportpriis. De vereniging deed veel aan vernieuwing en professionalisering. Er werd samenwerking gezocht met topsport door middel van de Friesland College Turnschool waar Nederlandse topturners onderdak vinden.

Gymnastiekvereniging
Sportvereniging in Heerenveen

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Home Comics Agent Coulson Turns Rogue To Become The Next Avengers Villain
Agent Coulson Turns Rogue To Become The Next Avengers Villain
Does it shock you? It has been disclosed that Agent Coulson is going to be the next bad guy of the Avengers and it has truly shocked all of us. Avengers #11 revealed that Phil Coulson is no longer the good guy that he was and has now become the new Avengers villain.
It is a real shock to discover this, but, it is a fact that Phil Coulson has teamed up with the villains as it has been disclosed that he killed a close ally and countryman of Black Panther. What makes Coulson an even deadlier enemy to the Avengers is the fact that he is well-versed with each superhero's powers and weaknesses as well as their working.
Everybody knows how Coulson had a great bond with Captain America, and Coulson used to be a huge fan of Captain America, but, that's not the case anymore. In fact, Coulson has gone so far down the evil road that he has turned into an enemy for the Avengers.
It is well known that Agent Coulson was the person who was murdered during the scandalous Secret Empire events in 2017 where it was shown that Captain America was the person who had turned rogue and had managed to fool the whole world.
However, it was Agent Coulson who saw through the Hydra Captain's plans and tried to stop him. Consequently, Captain America tasked Deadpool to murder Coulson and we all know that he is still recovering from this act. Later in Avengers #700 Agent Coulson's murder was reversed and he was shown to be in a conversation with General Thunderbolt Ross.
However, how and through which medium was he revived? It has not yet been explained, but, his existence and plans are clearly visible. In Avengers #11, we saw Coulson talk to an unknown and dangerous person, and the worst thing is that he got hold of that unknown character and narrated his plans to him.
Taking into account the things that Coulson mentioned, it is clear that he is not the same old Agent Coulson anymore after coming back from the dead, and he has a lot of hatred in his heart for Captain America. While he did talk about his collection of Captain America cards in the past, now he loathes him because he knows that Captain America had asked Deadpool to murder him.
Coulson went on to kill the person whom he had captured in a sinister way because he believed that the person was a spy working for Black Panther. Evidently, Agent Coulson has transformed, and he seems to be all set to be the next Avengers villain who is backed by Squadron Supreme. Avengers would be foolish to take Coulson lightly.
To see this evil version of Agent Coulson is truly scary, but, we are excited about it because Coulson knows S.H.I.E.L.D. inside out as well as all the superhero members of the Avengers team. That is why he is capable of delivering shock attacks on them at times when they are most vulnerable and unsuspecting.
Pitching Coulson against the Avengers is quite a fascinating premise and he has always been a character who has never backed off from putting his own life on the line to save his colleagues, and for Earthlings. Now that Captain America is his target, Coulson has no love left for any other superhero as well.
If you haven't read the Avengers #11, you can read it now as it is available at comic book stores.
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CIO interview: Carlos Morgado, CTO, Just Eat
Carlos Morgado, group CTO of online takeaway service Just Eat, discusses the company's move to public cloud
Archana Venkatraman
Datacentre Editor
Designing and implementing a public cloud strategy for online takeaway service Just Eat has been its CTO Carlos Morgado's (pictured) first cloud computing project in his 15 years in IT – and one of the most exciting and rewarding projects he has worked on.
Just Eat, which launched in 2001, operates in 13 countries around the globe with nearly 1,000 employees.
When Morgado joined four years ago, Just Eat was operating in four countries. As the takeaway service looked to expand, Morgado knew he did not want to set up a giant datacentre in Europe to power Just Eat's business in far-flung areas with different time zones, such as Brazil and India. "Having a datacentre wasn't tenable," he says.
And Morgado knew flexibility in IT capacity was crucial for a business such as Just Eat, which has peaky weekend demands and slower weekday afternoons. Between 7.30pm and 9.00pm on a Saturday evening is Just Eat's busiest period in the UK, but building a fully equipped datacentre to meet demand during those peak times would mean paying for idle resources during non-peak business hours.
"Why would you want to drive a Ferrari on occasions when a Ford Fiesta would be perfectly acceptable?" he asks.
Cloud a strategic choice
Morgado, as Just Eat's group CTO, is responsible for its e-commerce platform around the world, internal IT systems, all the applications and workloads, and desktop services for its employees. He and his team have embraced the concept of cloud computing quite strongly. The company moved to Google Apps for Business in February 2012 and uses Google's cloud-based Gmail application and Google Drive.
But Morgado wanted to take advantage of cloud's flexibility and agility on a larger scale within the company.
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While on-demand capacity was the obvious reason to move to the cloud, Morgado was not looking at it purely from an infrastructure point of view. He had more strategic objectives of using cloud computing services.
IT challenges around scalability are not impossible to solve using a more traditional IT approach, he says.
"We considered cloud because it would give the engineering team the time and ability to deliver an improved customer experience and allow us to focus on more strategic and value-added IT projects than simply patching software, fixing servers and drivers and managing IT performance," he adds.
Its infrastructure advantages, while important, were secondary considerations, he says.
Having considered all cloud options and suppliers, Just Eat chose Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud.
"We wanted to use off-the-shelf toolsets and needed a supplier that had a mature services set available," he says. "We found AWS to be most mature at scale, having rich features, and with a global presence."
Morgado's cloud strategy is "not to waste time building what you can buy".
"We considered Microsoft Azure but we didn't want to constrain all our IT to the Azure stack," he says.
Convincing cloud roadmap
Morgado convinced the financial stakeholders of the company to use public cloud with his clear and planned cloud roadmap. "It was important to have a practical, balanced approach rather than telling the stakeholders that 'We'll be on public cloud in the next two months. Let's hope for the best'," he says.
Public cloud seems to be stable, resilient and efficient. I would recommend it to everyone, but you have to go in with eyes wide open
Carlos Morgado, Just Eat
Morgado's strategy was to reassure the stakeholders by telling them that the IT team was building a resilient public cloud infrastructure and had factored in failure instances.
"Failure is likely to occur and we had to design bearing that in mind," he says.
After two years of due diligence, using AWS cloud in beta, and migrating smaller, non-critical applications first, the IT team started using public cloud fully in production at the beginning of 2013.
Today, almost 95% of Just Eat's e-commerce platform and its associated applications are hosted on the AWS cloud. In addition, its testing and developmental toolsets and mobile applications are running on AWS too.
Just Eat's UK business is the company's most lucrative market and it was the last e-commerce services that Morgado migrated to AWS.
Cautious approach to cloud
But doesn't lack of cloud standards and interoperability worry Morgado?
"It does. We have even replaced our own queuing system with Amazon's SQS [Simple Queue Service] system," he says. "But we have built the architecture in such a way that it will be easy for us to swap out Amazon's SQS should a newer, better tool become available."
Such a long-term strategy and cautious approach to cloud helps Morgado insulate the company's IT from supplier lock-in.
Just Eat's IT team has seen all the efficiencies it was expecting from public cloud services. The cloud strategy has also helped Morgado foster innovation among the IT team – his key objective.
"We run regular hackathons. One of the impediments in the old infrastructure was that the hackathon output was constrained because of our hardware limitations. But with AWS, the IT team can copy our complete environment quickly, easily and cheaply to facilitate hackathons," he says.
Coping with downtimes and cloud outages
But there have been problems too, Morgado admits. "Since using cloud in production, we have experienced two downtimes," he says.
He emphasises the importance of making changes to software architecture before migrating to the cloud: "We were fully aware of that, but we did not re-architect 100% of our software and one of them bit us. Another downtime was because of one instance of bad coding by our internal IT team."
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But Morgado says envisaging downtime and failure was part of the cloud project. "Downtime happens in in-house IT too, but cloud outages receive more bad press," he says.
"We had more downtimes with our old infrastructure; public cloud seems to be more stable, resilient and efficient. I would recommend cloud to everyone, but you have to go in with eyes wide open."
During the initial stages of migration, Morgado was constantly reminded by cloud skeptics about every single failure or outage instance. "It was very annoying when people would rubbish public cloud services and pinpoint cloud failures all the time," he says.
But if a cloud project failed, it may have been because of bad execution, lack of due diligence or no effort on software architecture, he adds. "We had to constantly tell the skeptics that we were not building for the cloud in the same way."
Another cloud-bashing that annoys Morgado is the talk around its lack of security. "I don't subscribe to the idea of cloud being any less secure than in-house IT. You have to engineer cloud for security as a good practice," he says.
Compliance limitations
Despite being a front-runner in cloud adoption, Just Eat still runs sensitive financial applications in the company's only datacentre in Denmark.
But Morgado envisages a future where cloud computing will be used in more facets of IT. "The only reason we are not currently putting financial services workloads on the public cloud is because of compliance regulations," he says.
Just Eat uses third-party PCI-compliant service providers to store sensitive customer information and uses its own datacentre to host accounting workloads.
And even within the AWS cloud, Just Eat hosts database workloads in Amazon's Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) because it wanted some tools to be directly accessible only to the IT team.
There is always a way to make applications on the cloud secure, it is just a matter of choosing the right cloud strategy and platform
There is always a way to make applications on the cloud secure, it is just a matter of choosing the right cloud strategy and platform, he insists.
Having overcome issues around flexibility and capacity provisioning in peak business hours with public cloud, Morgado and his team are now focusing on improving the company's call centre telephony infrastructure and developing more mobile applications for better customer services.
But has moving to the cloud rendered any cost savings to the company? "The money that is going out of our bank account every month for cloud is the same as it was with our traditional infrastructure. So no direct cost savings," he says.
"But if you take into account the true value, the improved IT availability, the time saved on not running backups or patching operating systems and instead focusing on more strategic IT, cloud has definitely given us more return on investment."
If given a chance, would Morgado do anything differently in his journey to the cloud? "I wish I had been a bit more aggressive and moved to the cloud earlier," he concludes.
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Pictured: Southland Academy K3 students love South Georgia Technical College Mascot, ACE!
What a treat! The Southland Academy Lower School students had an exciting morning as student athletes from South Georgia Technical College visited the Southland campus. Answering questions, giving high fives, and taking pictures, the basketball players were fun, energetic, and very kind to the young Raiders. The lower school students were intrigued by the student athletes' heights, accents, and engaging personalities. They especially enjoyed the basketball players taking the time to read to them. ACE also took time from his busy schedule to join the fun and visit the Southland students. Coach Chris Baullauer, SGTC Assistant Men's Basketball Coach, Kenzie Conyers, SGTC Assistant Women's Basketball Coach, and Terri Battle, SGTC Athletics Assistant were also on campus. Southland Academy is very appreciative of South Georgia Technical College and its desire for community connection and wishes the Jets a great basketball season.


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High hopes for Pinoy jins in the SEA Games
POOLED REPORT FROM PSA
NAY PYI TAW – A strong performance and a golden triumph.
That was the forecast of poomsae coach John Pierre Sabido a day before the taekwondo competitions of the 27th Southeast Asian Games unfurl Wednesday at the Wunna Theikdi Indoor Stadium here.
Sabido, who skippered the gold medal-winning men's team in the 2009 Laos SEA Games, said winning the gold medal isn't far from reality, especially with his wards competing in the "best shape of their careers."
The Filipinos are competing in only three of the five poomsae events – the men's team, women's team and men's individual categories.
"The team is prepared and the players' spirits are high," said the 30-year-old Sabido. "The women's team is shooting for a grand slam and the men's team is capable of pulling a surprise following a strong performance in the World Cup last October in Bali, Indonesia.
"We will be fine. I am confident that we can surpass our previous performance which is one gold, one silver and one bronze (medal)."
With 16-year-old Rinna Babanto joining the comely duo of Janice Lagman and Rani Ortega, much is expected from the women's team this year following back-to-back conquests in the previous editions of the biennial Games.
Sabido said the team may have failed to win a medal in the previous World Cup, but is ready, especially with Babanto proving she can fill the void left by Camille Alarilla, who left the team last year to focus on earning a degree in Law.
"She is younger, stronger than Camille," Sabido said. "She is a tough girl who worked her way up just to get in this position. She is very disciplined and hungry to win."
In the men's side, Sabido said brothers Djustin and Raphael Mella as well as Vidal Marvin Gabriel are capable of winning. In fact, they clinched the silver medal in the previous World Cup, winning it over other Southeast Asian countries like Thailand and Indonesia.
Gabriel will also be competing in the men's individual.
"It was Vietnam which won the gold medal," Sabido added. "But it doesn't matter. Our men's team has improved tremendously and the boys are ready for the challenges that will come their way."
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2018-01-27T18:15:30-05:00https://images.c-span.org/defaults/Capitol_default-image.jpgThe 50th anniversary of North Korea's seizing the Navy Ship USS Pueblo, with President Lyndon Johnson's calls and address to the nation from January 1968. Participants include Defense Secretary Robert McNamara; U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Arthur Goldberg; and Washington Star reporter Jack Horner. Also Mitchell Lerner, Associate History Professor at the Ohio State University and Director of the Institute for Korean Studies, talked about the seizure. He is also the author of The Pueblo Incident: A Spy Ship and the Failure of American Foreign Policy.
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Think I can understand why Oban was lived in since the Mesolithic times – it's such a beautiful place.
Apart from the few obvious touristy attractions that Oban is blessed with – fresh seafood, beautiful sunsets and a world-famous whisky distiller, there's plenty of history and culture of Oban worth learning about it. I thought there is more to the little town than its otherwise bustling little harbour and seafront. Here are three fun facts about the town of Oban. The info credits go to Wikipedia.
Like Edinburgh, the town has a semblance of medieval architecture.
According to Wikipedia, this is evidenced by archaeological remains of cave dwellers found in the town. Just outside the town stands Dunollie Castle, on a site that overlooks the main entrance to the bay and has been fortified since the Bronze age. Prior to the 19th century, the town itself supported very few households, sustaining only minor fishing, trading, shipbuilding and quarrying industries, and a few hardy tourists.
It's a quiet town, when you move away from the action near the seafront.
The experience of travel is described in the famous book – A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. It will give you a good sense of what Scotland was like in the past, this include marauding privateers and slave-ships which worked the coasts. The destruction of Scottish forests was in full swing. Scotch whisky was distilled illegally and profusely (Johnson noted the custom of the skalk, or drinking whisky before breakfast). Skalk also means in English terms, 'a sharp blow to the head'.
2. Oban played a key important during the Cold War because the first Transatlantic Telephone Cable (TAT-1) came ashore at Gallanach Bay.
A docking point for boats and ferries.
This carried the Hot Line between the US and USSR presidents. At North Connel, next to the airfield/airport was the NRC (Nuclear Reporting Cell) of the Royal Observer Corps (29 Oct 1925 to 31 Dec 1995) Since the 1950s, the principal industry has remained tourism, though the town is also an important ferry port, acting as the hub for CalMac – Caledonian McBrayne – ferries to many of the islands of the Inner and Outer Hebrides.
A port for ferries to the Inner and Outer Hebrides.
Susie Wolff is a British former racing driver. In 2014, she was the first woman to take part in a Formula One race weekend in 22 years, representing Williams at the British Grand Prix, at Silverstone. In 2016, she joined Channel 4 in the UK to be an analyst for their F1 Coverage.
I can't be quite sure if this was the Cathedral in the town.
Hope you enjoyed the three fun facts about the town of Oban. Despite it's very alluring tourist attractions, I thought it would be good to put some context into Oban's history and its people. It's one of those things where you could inform your travelling companion, while he or she is mid-slurp through an oyster. Makes for bragging rights in the knowledge area.
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Micro Don Dada, DJ Top Notch, DJ Castro, DJ Kilz, and DJ AK brought down the house with tunes from 90's to present day. The soundwaves propagated with notable songs such as: Shenseea -"Pon Mi," Buju Banton -" Love How The Gal Dem Flex," Shabba Ranks- "Gal Yuh Good," Konshens – "Bruk Off Yuh Back, " Busy Signal-"Stay So," Popcaan-"Family," Elephant Man – "Nuh Linga," Tee Jay -"Bubble Ya Body," Beres Hammond – "No Goodbye," Davido- "Fall," Vybz Kartel – "Underwater," Kranium – "Last Night," Rhianna -"Work," Dexta Daps- "Shabba Madda Pot," and more.
Blacka Di Danca, performed his song "Bubble Up" and premiered "Saucy" for the first time. The crowd reacted with excitement and vivacious dancing for both songs.
In the crowd was Courtney Panton Jr. of New Kingston, Promoter BK Stacey, Members of the Danca Family, Dancer Mateo Velasquez, Dancer Lee Carram, Choreographer FreeUp CM, Dancer Kimmy J aka "Kimbo Queen," Dancer Sunmi Kim, Dancer Mami Hasegawa of Xpressionz Family, Dancer Leomary Rodriguez, Dancer Jeo, Dancer Alyssa Amarshi, Choreographer Rahmus Rifical, Dancer Kea Rada, Choreographer Scott Bernard, Dancer Veronika Byers and Dancer Jason B (Treestep).
Angel: Congratulations on an outstanding event Blacka.
Blacka: Thank you so much, we get live every time we have an event. Every Memorial Weekend I collaborate with Jillonaire from Major Lazer for our annual barbecue and I also do an Independence Day barbecue, annually.
Angel: I really appreciate the music and choreography. A lot of New York's Premier Dancers came out to support your big birthday event. How did this journey begin for you?
Blacka: I'm West Indian American, so I grew up with my Trinidadian parents playing reggae, soca and dancehall. Movement was a natural aspect of my background and culture. I would say I realized I had a passion for dancing around the age of 12 or 13, my cousins, New Kingston, well they are not my blood cousins but we were raised together, and I consider them family. Courtney Panton Sr. gave me the moniker "Blacka," he was a father figure in my life. They brought me along on tours with them and they have had an influence on every decision I have ever made. I really respect them so much, Tahir, Courtney, and Stephen. Well yeah when I was 12 or 13 we would go to the Elite Ark (which I realized later, was owned by a family member, when the club shut down) but there I saw crews stepping out on the dance scene with choreographed steps and even matching fitted caps and sneakers. This all intrigued me and I wanted to emulate these moves and create my own moves.
Angel: How did your family feel about your decision to pursue dancing?
Blacka: My mom is my biggest fan or cheerleader, She loves it and supports me all the way.
Angel: You performed "Bubble Up" at the party and the animated vocals reminded me of of Shaggy. Tell us about the inspiration behind this song.
Blacka: The first song I recorded was "Buss A Dance" featuring ZJ Sparks. That came about because my manager's close friend is a producer named DJ Septik and when he had an event called "Slow Bounce," I was one of the dancers. He later called me up and asked me if I was interested in doing music and I said yes. Then I wrote "Bubble Up" in LA, I was with Producer Clayton William and a friend Ebboni and we were having Hennessy and Coca Cola; Clayton was playing a beat. I was kinda zoned out and starring at the bottle of Coca Cola and then just started to say: "Wah mek yuh bubble up like a Coca Cola." My friend Ebboni was like "What?" and I repeated it a little deeper and that was the beginning of the chorus. Now the song is just over 50K streams on Spotify.
Angel: How about "Saucy?'" My friend told me what she thought the meaning behind the song was and I told her she was way off – the song is not a sensual song right- it's like showing off your style – whether it's your dance moves or fashion right?
Blacka: That song is definitely about swag. But everyone has their own interpretation of that song and I love that about the music.
Angel: What's next for you?
Blacka: I have a lot of songs coming up – some sensual ones too. I have a collaboration with Mr. Killa, Lexy Panterra and some reggaeton tunes with Los Rakas and El Chevo. The "Bubble Up" video will be released in January 2019, it was directed by Zurisaddai with assistance from my friends Andranita and Ebboni.
Angel: We are speaking to you right at a point where you are moving into a new phase of your career. At the party you mentioned that you were at a party and Jason B –now a well-known New York City dancer called "Tree Step," asked if you teach dancing and you said yes and then you became a Dance Instructor, in a similar vein, when DJ Septik asked you if you are interested in doing music, and now you are a Rising Star. Why were you so brave to say yes to these new endeavors? Did you feel like it was destiny?
Blacka: I don't say yes to everything. But I trust my heart and vibes, if it feels right I say yes, and I go for it. I believe it's not just about the action but it's about intention. My ultimate goal is to make others happy, if it helps the well-being of others, helps them to vibrate higher. I don't believe in destiny. I also don't focus on the past or future as much as I do the right now or present. I believe your past, present and future are manifested by what you say and do now. So if my energy says yes, I trust what my heart feels.
Angel: What is your biggest hope for the future?
Blacka: My Charity – "Little Danca." Through this program I am trying to expose children in Jamaica to dancehall and other forms of dance. The program is two-years old and brings dance education to 50 children, every Tuesday and Wednesday, at local community center in Gordon Town, as well as to the children of St. Martin De Porres Basic School. I want to be able to branch out and bring performing arts and dance education to neighboring schools and communities in Jamaica. It's sad because while the rest of the world is profiting off of dancehall, most local dancers in Jamaica can't make a career out of their passion, in the place where dancehall was born. I'm hoping to obtain the financial backing to bring this program to various schools throughout Jamaica and employ local dancers from Jamaica. Mr. Vegas, Zidan (from Xclusiv Dancers) Pancho (from Team Caution) have visited and supported my efforts, but I really need more sponsors to take this to the next level.
Angel: How can people support this philanthropic effort?
Blacka: They can contact me, I have a Go Fund Me page and I'm currently working on building a website for the program.
Angel: I hope that you are able to accomplish your mission. Many schools in the Caribbean are implementing STEM (Science Technology Engineering Mathematics) programing now. I think education in the Performing Arts and Fine Arts is equally, as important. Thank you for sharing your vision with Boomshots Magazine.
Blacka: Thank you for an intellectually stimulating conversation and for sharing my story. I really appreciate this.


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Internet Governance: "the party's standpoints as a timely rain in a spring breeze, silently moistening all things"
If you are looking for a platform that assumes the ungrateful – but important – task of translating party documents, there it is. It comes with a national interest (not necessarily China's), but it takes the CCP's paperwork seriously (which we all should).
The latest there is a translation of a commentary by Zhuang Rongwen (庄荣文), newly appointed head of the "Cyberspace Administration of China" (CAC).
Here's a bit of the spiritual nourishment in Chinese, and in English:
善于站在网民视角谋划网上正面宣传,推进网上宣传理念、内容、形式、方法、手段等创新,深耕信息内容,注重用户体验,力戒"虚"、务求"实",使广大网民愿听愿看、爱听爱看,使党的主张春风化雨、润物无声。
Be adept at seeing things from the point of view of netizens in planning positive online propaganda; enhance innovation in online propaganda ideas, content, forms, methods, techniques, etc.; deeply cultivate information content; pay attention to user experience; guard against the "fake" and strive for the "real"; ensure that the majority of Internet users are willing to listen and willing to see, and love to see and love to listen; let the Party's standpoints be as a timely rain in a spring breeze, silently moistening all things.
人类灵魂的工程师, 人民日报, Sept 15, 2018
Lu Wei's visit to Germany, July 17, 2015
"Unobtrusive influence", Jan 7, 2012
Delighting in Rain, 2012 / 2009
Tags: America, China, communication, Communist Party of China, conscience, education, government, ideology, internet, media, propaganda, Xi Jinping
Seeking "Discourse Power", Taipei plans to merge Radio Taiwan International, CNA, and Public Television
Note: Links within blockquotes added during translation.
A short article on the website of Public Media Alliance, an international, UK-based association of public broadcasters, reported early this year that Taiwan's ministry of culture was drafting legislation to integrate the country's public television services (PTS), the Central News Agency (CNA) and Radio Taiwan International (RTI) "into one independent organisation".
Radio Taiwan International QSL, 2018
The draft appears to be taking shape now, and rapidly so: CNA reported on Thursday last week that
Since minister of culture Cheng Li-chun's appointment, a review of public broadcasting corporations have been conducted, and so far, the ministry of culture has, after communicating, consulting and engaging in dialog with Public Television Service Foundation, Chinese Television System, Central News Agency, Radio Taiwan International's boards of directors, labor union representatives, and experts and scholars, reached a consensus, completed a legislative draft, and announced it to the public today.
文化鄭麗君部長上任以來,即啟動公廣集團發展之檢討,自106年7月迄今,文化部已跟公視基金會、華視、中央通訊社、中央廣播電臺的董事會、工會代表及專家學者們召開十幾場諮詢會議,經過不斷地內外溝通、協商、對話後取得共識,完成修法草案並於今天對外公告。
CNA also emphasized that union representatives were "invited to jointly participate in formulating the approach to integration, and actively protect the employees' rights and interests" (將邀集工會代表共同參與整合辦法的訂定,積極保障員工權益).
This isn't a particularly clear-cut definition of what union representatives may or may not be entitled do to exert influence in the process, but contary to Taiwan's private sector, where they are extremely weak, unions do have a role to play in public institutions.
That said, the base for unionised work in those institutions may be much weaker than what mere numbers suggest. For example, the only permanent employee at RTI's German-language service in 2013 was the head of the department herself, according to the station's German listeners club, while a number of further members of the department were freelancers.
Taiwan's Commercial Times (工商時報) reported on Friday that the draft should be sent to the Executive Yuan (basically the cabinet of ministers and chief commissioners) in October, reach the Legislative Yuan by the end of the year, and pass its third reading in June next year.
Overall, about 1,400 employees will be affected, of which 800 work for public television, with revenues of 2,000,000,000 two billion NT dollars for public television, 500 million NT dollars for Central News Agency and Radio Taiwan International combined, and 1.4 billion NT dollars for Chinese Television System. The combined budget was nearly 3.6 billion NT dollars last year.
The Commercial Times:
Cultural minister Cheng Li-chun emphasized that as Taiwan was facing the digital age and market competition, it lacked a cultural propagation strategy on a national level. Also, the existing content was lacking propagation channels, and there was a serious imbalance for incoming and outgoing international culture. Similarly, because of insufficient budgets, legislature and integration, public media were unable to play their propagation role, let alone mastering the power of speech [or discourse power] internationally. Therefore, the ministry of culture wanted to promote the "public media law" for the integration into a public media platform, following NHK's [Japan's public radio and television] role as an up-and-coming Asian public broadcaster.
文化部長鄭麗君強調,面對數位匯流時代與市場競爭,台灣缺乏一個國家級的文化傳播戰略,且有內容也缺乏通路,目前國際文化內容輸出入嚴重失衡;同樣在公共媒體方面,因為預算、法制、整合皆不足,也沒有發揮公共傳播的角色,更無法在國際上掌握話語權。所以文化部希望推動《公共媒體法》,讓公媒平台大整合,繼NHK之後成為亞洲新興公共媒體。
Indeed, according to the CNA article on Thursday, the ministry of culture intends to
[…] further promote cultural propagation in the digital age. The public media can provide information domestically, serve different ethnic groups, strengthen cultural affirmation. Internationally, they will not only be able to share Taiwanese culture with the world, but can also become the world's most trusted newly emerging public media in Asia.
[…..] 進一步推動數位時代的文化傳播。公共媒體對於國內可以提供公共資訊、服務多元族群、強化文化平權;而面對國際,不僅可以與世界分享台灣文化,也能夠成為最受國際信賴的亞洲新興公共媒體。
Apart from the domestic services, NHK also runs Japan's international media units. Under the name of "NHK World – Japan", they "intend to establish wider global recognition for the service's Japanese roots in advance of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games".
China has taken a similar approach earlier this year, blending domestic broadcasting with international broadcasting.
In its report on Thursday, CNA claims that board members of the media organisations, managers, and union representatives involved had all expressed approval and support 贊同與支持) for the draft at an information meeting on the same day. That could be true: journalists tend to be fans of reflecting ethnic diversity and affirmation, and the ministry of culture also offers more features in its draft that may be convincing. Apart from (apparently) including some kind of labour director in the planned new board, the term of every board member is said to be four years, with appointments*) of half of the body every two years.
If that helps to avoid resignations of the kind reported in October 2008, when the Ma administration took office, that should help to build trust among employees, and the public.
*) to be suggested by the executive, and approved by the legislative yuan
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Tags: China, communication, competitiveness, image, industrial relations, international, Japan, journalism, media, nation-building propaganda, negotiations, public diplomacy, Radio Taiwan International, shortwave radio, soft power, Taiwan
A long-running Taiwan Blog is closing
Michael Turton announced closure of The View from Taiwan sixteen days ago. The blog had its drawbacks, but it will hopefully remain online, as an archive of pan-green views, information, and dogmatism – and as a rare collection of photos, showing everyday life in Taiwan.
There are too few English-language windows on Taiwan, and it is bad news that The View isn't posting anymore.
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Tags: blogging, China, cross-strait relations, democracy, feelings, international, isolation, nation-building propaganda, patriotism, soft power, Taiwan, world
Plans for English as an Official Taiwanese Language
Duties and a receptive mode (online and offline) are keeping me from blogging at the moment.
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If I had blogged this month, one topic might have been about Taiwan's (sensible, I believe) plans to make English their second official language. To survive under Chinese pressure, international perceptibility – i. e. communication – is a key issue for Taiwan.
There had been plans to make English official for some time, but they appear to have been taking shape this summer. Pan-blue leaning United Daily News (UDN) published an online article in March this year, quoting both people in favor and against the idea, including criticism by a Chengchi University professor:
Chengchi University professor Her One-Soon says that this, in ideological terms, is about surrender to Western power. "Currently, most of the countries of the world that have made English an official language have been colonized by Britain and America", but has Taiwan? If [English] is really to become an official language, it only represents Taiwan's inferiority complex towards its own language and culture.
政大語言所教授何萬順則說,這樣在意識形態上是向西方強權屈膝,「目前世界大多國家以英文做為官方語言,都是被英美殖民過」,但台灣有嗎?若是真的定為官方語言,只是代表台灣對自身語言文化的自卑。
If statistics of six years ago are something to go by, there may be more practical issues that would need to be solved. In November 2012, the English-language Taipei Times quoted a foreign education company's study which said that proficiency in English was low.
Currently, Taiwan is ranked as a country with rather low proficiency by "Education First" (which emphasizes the importance of perceptibility by listing Taiwan as "Taiwan, China").
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Tags: academic, China, communication, competitiveness, development, education, international, language, lobbyism, New Southbound Policy, sovereignty, Taiwan, world, 新南向政策


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Round She Goes: Landsat's Orbital Swath
Source: NASA Science Visualization Studio
As a Landsat satellite flies over the surface of the Earth the instruments aboard the satellite are able to view a swath 185 kilometers wide and collect images along that swath as the satellite proceeds through its orbit. The spacecraft travels at approximately 4.7 miles per second. The satellite travels from north to south while it's over the sunlit portion of the Earth, and travels south to north over the dark side of the Earth. One orbit takes about 99 minutes, so that's about approximately 15 orbits in a 24 hour period. The orbit's maintained such that after 16 days, the entire surface of the Earth has come within view of the Landsat instruments, while sunlit, and then on day 17 the first ground path is repeated. So we get to view the entire surface once every 16 days.
This animation was produced by Matt Radcliffe, animated by Cynthia Starr, and narrated by the Landsat 8 Project Scientist, Jim Irons.
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Take LA Dodgers (-135) on the ML against Seattle Mariners risking 4.05% to win 3%.
The Dodgers seemingly broke out of their offensive funk last night in their 11-1 drubbing of the Seattle Mariners and we expect that momentum to carry over into tonight's contest. At this point in the season, every game count and this is one that the Dodgers should win, especially since they will have a huge edge on the mound as Rich Hill squares off against Erasmo Ramirez.
Rich Hill has been nothing short of dominant since the All-Star break, going 3-0 with a 1.78 over 5 starts. While pitchers usually regress while on the road, Hill has been nearly unhittable at Safeco Park in his career, going 4-0 with an ultra-impressive 0.39 ERA in 6 games (3 starts) in this ballpark. With those kind of career numbers, it is incredibly difficult to go against Hill in this situation.
Erasmo Ramirez meanwhile is 0-2 with a 6.75 ERA in three starts with the Mariners this season and has allowed 17 hits and a whopping 9 walks in his 14 2/3 innings of work. Ramirez has also struggled in interleague games in his career as he is just 5-5 with a 5.57 mark in 21 inter-league matchups. The Mariners haven't had much success when he has taken the mound against quality teams as they are 3-14 in Ramirez's L17 starts vs. teams with a winning record.
Los Angeles has been one of the best teams in baseball in Interleague play as they are 25-12 in their last 37 inter-league matchups and Hill should have a decided advantage on the mound. These are still reasonable odds to lay with a team that should win this game convincingly. The value is on the Dodgers tonight.


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Q: What is the use of a -5V supply rail on a bench PSU? I am converting a ATX computer power supply into a bench power supply and I was wondering if I would need the -5 volts. I know I might need the -12 volts for op amps but is there any point of using a binding post for the -5 volts.

A: As well as the +/- 12V you've mentioned for op-amps many will run from +/-5V as well, sometimes that can be handy because you can use something like a TPS60400 charge pump to get -5V from a 5V supply. You might like to include it for that reason so you can test your analog section before you've made the final power supply.
It might also be a useful test input for bipolar ADCs and other analog stages that accept a negative input voltage, for example you might want a negative input that is not right on the supply rail with a +/- 12V circuit (although for most of those cases you could also use a voltage divider).
I suspect it's not the sort of thing you'd use often but for the sake of a binding post it's probably worth including in case you ever need it.

A: A common output voltage for an ac transformer is 6v, 0V, 6V i.e. a 12V secondary with a centre pin. After the bridge rectifier you'd get dc voltages of + and -7V relative to the centre pin and many circuits will use + and - 5V regulators to derive a stable and clean DC supply for various circuits.

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This charming small hotel is situated in a historical building, a former coaching inn originating from the 18th century. Set around a courtyard, it is located in the centre of the city and it has an Italian garden. The unique interiors are simple and comfortable and their contemporary style blends well with the traditional architecture. There is a small wine bar where guests can choose wine by the glass or bottle from a short menu before 9pm.
The hotel comprises 14 guest rooms, each of which is equipped with air conditioning, TV, WiFi, tea and coffee making facilities and an ensuite bathroom.
3 nights from £555 per person in February and from £599 per person in September, based on two adults sharing on bed & breakfast basis. Indicative prices include return daytime flights (Bordeaux) and return private car transfers.


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With 20-something years in the game, the former Parisian turned Berliner is lauded by peers and fans alike for his production technique, and infamous on the circuit for his extensive collection of - and near-obsessive relationship with - machines.
Growing up in Pigalle, most kids his age were playing football as Alex spent his days examining the synth shops in his neighborhood, twiddling away on every dial button he could get his hands on, buying and selling gear.
A DJ/producer, multi-instrumentalist and sound engineer, Alexkid is credited as an early protagonist of 90s Parisian underground culture. Ignited by no less than three critically acclaimed albums on Laurent Garnier's F Communications, and cemented by his Rex Club residency of four years, having been invited to the very same club where he has been clubbing for the past 25 years.
This, matched with selected releases and remixes on labels including Rekids, Desolat, Cadenza, Cabin Fever, Freerange and Supplement facts have solidified Alexkid's reputation in every corner of the world. Stripped back, dubby and a sometimes borderline obscure, Alex constructs atmospheric narratives - maneuvering just as easily through a live set-up as a vinyl session. A self-professed perfectionist always in the search of the perfect beat, he applies stylistical values from jazz when concurring that 'things can sound wrong, and yet sound great.
2014 adds another chapter to Alexkid's repertoire, with the inception of his new vinyl-only label Wu- Dubs. Presenting an expressive platform for his own music, as well as music of his friends, the focus lies on unearthing timeless pieces of music. Coupled with a series of label showcases at the Rex aptly titled 'Deja-Wu', whilst building the backbone of his own new artist platform, and with releases on Jus- Ed's Underground Quality, Fuse and Ovum on the way, Alex is paving a new path for himself.
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I have an EAR which contains a SAR and a WAR. It deploys successfully on JBoss 4.0.3rc2.
But if the service in the SAR throws an exception during deployment (which may happen due to external causes), I would expect JBoss to stop the EAR deployment. Instead the rest of the application - i.e. the WAR - is still being deployed and made available to users on the web, although in an inconsistent state.
Adding a dependency on the service contained in the SAR in the jboss-web.xml for the WAR does the trick in this example, but it's not what I want. I actually have more modules inside my EAR and I want the whole EAR not to be deployed if the SAR fails.
Is there any way to accomplish this? Am I missing something on how deployers work?


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Barangaroo was the second wife of Bennelong, who was interlocutor between the Aboriginal people and the early British colonists in New South Wales.  Barangaroo was a member of the Cammeraygal clan. While Bennelong spent considerable time in the British settlement in Sydney, Barangaroo maintained her way of life with her people.

She had two children prior to being Bennelong's wife, both of whom died.  She had a baby girl, Dilboong, while she was Bennelong's wife. The baby only survived for a few months. Barangaroo died in 1791 and was buried in Governor Phillip's garden, in the area of the present day Circular Quay.

The accounts of Watkin Tench
First Fleet marine Watkin Tench, in his first-hand account called A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson, describes several encounters with Barangaroo.

At the first meeting between the colonists and Barangaroo in October 1790 he describes how Bennelong presents her wearing a petticoat.  "But this was the prudery of the wilderness, which her husband (Bennelong) joined us to ridicule, and we soon laughed her out of it.  The petticoat was dropped with hesitation, and Barangaroo stood 'armed cap-a-pee in nakedness'."  Tench said at the request of Bennelong "we combed and cut her hair, and she seemed pleased with the operation".  She would not taste any of the wine that she was offered, even though she was invited to do so by Bennelong.

He also describes an occasion where a convict was flogged in front of an audience of Aboriginal people, for stealing from them.   Barangaroo was angry, and menaced the man performing the flogging with a stick.

His final mention of Barangaroo in the text is to describe how the Aboriginal women were treated with what he described as "savage barbarity", and that Bennelong would strike Barangaroo with blows and kicks and "every other mark of brutality".  He also says that Barangaroo was not pitied as a result of this, as she was "a scold and a vixen".

Legacy
A  suburban area at Sydney's east Darling Harbour, not located in her traditional lands, was officially named in her honour in October 2006. The site was formerly a dockland precinct used for shipping, and has since been redeveloped into commercial office spaces, residences, a casino, hotel, and parklands. In 2008, part of the precinct, called The Hungry Mile, was the site of the Opening Mass and several other large gatherings for World Youth Day 2008.

The SS Barangaroo was a ferry operating across Sydney Harbour prior to the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Barangaroo Street in the Canberra suburb of Chisholm is named in her honour.

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With all of space his jurisdiction, Horatio Hellpop battles tyranny across the galaxy, but in the fallout of his now-notorious massacre on Mars, Nexus is forced to validate his performance as interstellar champion and executioner. However, tragedy threatens to strike again, as the artificial black hole known as the Gravity Well approaches collapse, endangering the entire solar system! Collects Nexus Volume 2 issues #40-#52 and The Next Nexus #1. * Don't miss original Nexus stories in Dark Horse Presents! * The thrilling conclusion to a pivotal chapter of the Nexus saga! * Over 400 pages!
When dark forces push the current Nexus into his work with a brutal vengeance, classic Nexus Horatio Hellpop must step in before he goes too far! But as the Nexuses square off, an even greater threat looms on the cosmic horizon! Collects Nexus volume 2 #66-#80. * Don't miss original Nexus stories in Dark Horse Presents! * Over 400 pages!
The mighty Nexus is charged and empowered to execute the galaxy's mass murderers, and there is no shortage of targets. But when Nexus delegates some of his docket, the appointed assassins go on a rampage, killing thousands, and Nexus must intervene or become responsible for genocide himself! Collects Nexus #26-#39 (Volume 2).
Plagued by nightmares of the horrific misdeeds of his mass-murderer targets, the executioner Nexus chooses a life-threatening procedure to block his tormenting night visions. But though the nightmares cease, the behavior of Nexus becomes increasingly erratic and violent, a dangerous development for a man who wields the power of the stars! Collects Nexus #12-#25. * Nexus has won six Eisner Awards. * Look for new Nexus in Dark Horse Presents!
When Horatio Hellpop resigns as Nexus, the mantle of cosmic executioner falls to the vengeful and dangerous Loomis sisters. It isn't long before the amazing power that accompanies the office begins to corrupt Stacy and Michana Loomis, and the nigh-omnipotent Merk must supplant them with a new, nobler host! Collects issues #53-#65 of Nexus volume 2 and issues #2-#4 of The Next Nexus! * Features early work from Adam Hughes, Peter David, and Phil Hester! * Over 400 pages!
Nexus is the greatest avenger in history, but his power and purpose come from an alien race with their own agenda. Is Nexus hero or pawn? Deliverer or destroyer? God or devil? Contains Nexus Volume 1 #1-3, Nexus volume 2 #1-11.
America's Army deploys to Czervenia. President-General Adzic and his new Czervenian Army set upon a murderous campaign to destroy the neighboring Republic of the Ostregals. But the war is only the tip of the iceberg and sets in motion a mysterious plan to change the course of world power. Sergeant John Plaxco and his elite Long Range Surveillance Team conduct a critical recon mission and make an ominous discovery that could endanger the world. With new information in hand, will every American Soldier make it out alive? Only strength and teamwork will make the difference in America's Army #1 Knowledge Is Power.


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package com.sksamuel.elastic4s

import com.sksamuel.exts.OptionImplicits._
import org.elasticsearch.common.bytes.BytesReference

import scala.collection.mutable

/**
  * A common trait for Get, MultiGet, Search and MultiSearch API results so that
  * the HitReader typeclass can unmarshall results from any of those.
  */
trait Hit {

  def id: String
  def index: String
  def `type`: String
  def version: Long

  final def ref: DocumentRef = DocumentRef(index, `type`, id)

  final def to[T: HitReader]: T = safeTo[T].fold(e => throw e, t => t)
  final def safeTo[T](implicit reader: HitReader[T]): Either[Throwable, T] = reader.read(this)

  final def toOpt[T: HitReader]: Option[T] = if (exists) to[T].some else None
  final def safeToOpt[T: HitReader]: Option[Either[Throwable, T]] = if (exists) safeTo[T].some else None

  def sourceField(name: String): AnyRef = sourceAsMap(name)
  def sourceFieldOpt(name: String): Option[AnyRef] = sourceAsMap.get(name)

  def sourceAsMap: Map[String, AnyRef]
  def sourceAsBytes: Array[Byte]
  def sourceAsString: String
  def sourceAsByteRef: BytesReference
  def isSourceEmpty: Boolean

  def sourceAsMutableMap: mutable.Map[String, AnyRef] = mutable.Map.apply(sourceAsMap.toSeq: _*)

  def exists: Boolean
}


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Featured Stories Clint Bowyer leads opening practice for Auto Club 500 at Auto Club...
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By SM Staff
At the end of the first practice, it'd be Clint Bowyer topping the charts with a lap of 38.832 seconds (185.414 mph) in his No. 15 5-Hour Energy Toyota.
"This is a fun race track," he said. "For as big as it is, it's always a lot of fun when it widens out on the race — running high, running low and duking and driving. It always seems to race pretty well. For the size of this race track, we all enjoy ourselves pretty well out there. Looking forward to it."
In four races so far this year, Bowyer has two top 10 finishes, with his worst finish being 27th at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Currently sitting fourth in points, Bowyer is trying to keep the momentum going after finishing second in points last year to Brad Keselowski.
"Had a strong run last week (at Bristol) and hopefully we can continue this momentum and keep building," Bowyer continued. "This is a good time of the year to get your mojo rolling and get a good points base established so you can roll into the summer months being able to race as hard as you want and take as many chances as you want."
Denny Hamlin would time in second, 0.0124 seconds off of Bowyer. Hamlin has been in the news lately as a result of a comment that NASCAR didn't agree with at Phoenix International Raceway. Hamlin was penalized and said he wouldn't pay the fine, but chose not to appeal. Hamlin is also looking for a good run this weekend after a poor finish last weekend due to a flat tire late in the race. Last weekend may be a weekend that the driver of the No. 11 FedEx Toyota would like to forget after a run-in with Joey Logano.
A.J. Allmendinger was third, 0.169 seconds off of Bowyer in his No. 51 Phoenix Construction Chevrolet. Allmendinger will be running some races for Phoenix Racing while running some Indy Car races for Penske Racing, including the Indianapolis 500.
Last week's pole sitter and fourth place finisher Kyle Busch was fourth, followed by Logano.
Greg Biffle was sixth, followed by Mark Martin, Kevin Harvick, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Tony Stewart.
Points leader Brad Keselowski was 20th, 0.570 seconds off of Bowyer.
"We have done everything but win a race," Keselowski said of his season so far. "That is where our focus is at this weekend for sure. We've certainly got a strong, consistent start but we have been in position on the final restart of each race to win and have come up just a little bit short. Hopefully we can close that out this weekend. I think we have got the car to do it and the team to do it. We are ready to get on track and get going. We have practice and qualifying here today and I am curious how this race is going to play out. I honestly think this is going to be an exceptional race."
Qualifying takes place later today at 7pm EST.
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