...for linking and strengthening local groups working to protect civil liberties, women's rights and the environment.
For us regaining power for the people, for communities, for autonomous societal forces is crucial. To that end Lokayan aims to be a 'dialogue of the people'.
Lokayan is a dialogue for the consolidation of democracy, for exploring the possibilities and principles of coherence within the explosion of democratic assertions, for equity and people's control over natural resources, women's empowerment, cultural plurality, health and well-being for all.
Lokayan, meaning 'Dialogue of the people', started in 1980 as a forum for interaction between activists and concerned intellectuals through meetings, workshops, working groups and lectures. Professors Rajni Kothari and DL Sheth provided the organisation's overall leadership during the initial phase. They were followed by Shiv Visvanathan, Vijay Pratap, and Prof. Imtiaz Ahmed as chairpersons, with Suresh Sharma, Harsh Sethi, Smitu Kothari and Vijay Pratap as conveners at different points in time. DP Rajendra Ravi became convener in1998, and Prof. VB Singh became chairperson in 2003. In addition to the core group of conveners, Lokayan's activities are sustained by a group of part-time associates and volunteers.
Lokayan's interactions involved a large network of intellectuals, non-party and mainstream political party activists. Through these the Lokayan programme has sought to evolve a systematic critique of the established models of development and the state, and also to promote political action drawing upon the large variety of micro-initiatives that are engaged in the struggle for a just society. The aim is to build a body of knowledge, opinion and concrete strategies of intervention at the 'macro' level that will promote a decentralised democratic order and enhance respect for the cultural and social diversity of marginalised sections of society. The thinking, values, aspirations and experiences of these people provide the basis for alternative cultural, economic and political thinking, helping to unify the various movements for egalitarian change.
Over the past decades there has been a burgeoning of democratic urges and assertion by deprived groups in India, and this has been paralleled by much ideological debate among activist groups and movements. Being preoccupied with the dynamics of survival, however, these groups have not linked up with each other or with the mainstream democratic processes, so Lokayan has sought to provide a forum for such exchanges. It publishes regular bulletins of comment and analysis, as well as struggle notes, movement documents and book reviews, which express the wide range of its concerns. Then English-language 'Lokayan' journal appears six times a year.
Eminent political scientist Shiv Vishwanathan recently wrote: "Lokayan, a dialogue with the people, was a legendary thought experiment, which transformed social science in India inalterably. Lokayan was an idea whose time had come, a commons of hospitality open to every variant of every social movement". Indeed, Lokayan has been an important platform for individuals to promote alternatives. For example, Vandana Shiva (RLA 1992) has written for the Lokayan Bulletin. Lokayan has also provided intellectual sustenance to several social movements in India, including the Narmada Bachao Andolan spearheaded by Medha Patkar (RLA 1991).
1. Can you give an example of practical changes achieved by Lokayan?
Since its inception, Lokayan has been working on the issues of human rights, gender and the diversity of the indigenous people. With the number of debates and dialogues it has been involved in, over the years, there has been a shift in the thinking of the planners and policy makers towards these issues. The issue of the rights of the poor, be they in housing or employment on the roads, were never brought to the table for discussion. Today they are integral in the process of policy formulation at least, even though, at the implementation level, there is much that still needs to be done.
2. How has Indian civil society changed since you received the award 20 years ago?
Two decades ago, the ideals and issues raised by Lokayan were considered anti-development as progress was defined as reaching towards a high-tech society – technology being the panacea of all that ailed our society then. However, today our work has become a part of a powerful stream of voices, raised from the country and in the international arena, which are raising issues of sustainability and the rights of the indigenous peoples. The civil society in India is now working for the same goals.
3. What is Lokayan's biggest concern today?
Lokayan has always worked on human rights issues. Over the last decade, our work has become more urban centred, with the issues of shelter, transport and livelihood becoming the prime focus of our work. With the constant marginalization of the livelihood of the urban poor, by the processes of relocation of small industries and forced eviction from the urban slums, this issue finds centre-stage in the efforts of Lokayan.
4. Why is there a inequity in development and income generation between the countries of the "North" and "South"?
The very comparison of the North and South creates inequities by putting them together on the same platform and by judging the South by the rules and indicators developed in the "North". The development patterns, values and societal structures of both regions are entirely different. In the post industrial era of the modern world, technology and technical empowerment has been seen as the solution to all problems. This has marginalized the role of human labour and relegated it to inhumanity and indignity. There has been no effort to question how a development model, which is based on a homogeneous society with low population, can be applied to a heterogeneous society with higher availability of human resources. When the planning and economic models of the North are applied to the South, the latter is judged as chaotic and poor.
The truth is that it is the very perceived backwardness of our people and systems which help us find a faster path to sustainability compared to the North, which now has to invent and rediscover sustainable systems as their own do not have a future. A case in point here is the cycle rickshaw – we still have them plying on our roads and only need to include them in formal transport planning to make our systems both environmentally and economically sustainable. Some developed cities of the North are now trying to introduce the cycle rickshaw as a sustainable mode of transport, but will have an uphill struggle because human powered vehicles are no longer a part of their tradition or planning. The mythical perception of "North" as the giver and "South" as the recipient needs to be realigned. An equitable relationship of giving and taking, and learning from each other would be the true definition of globalization.
The RLA has brought us and the issues we are fighting for a world-wide recognition. This has given us internal strength and external support – both of which have made our cause stronger.


Working out at home is a great way to get in some exercise! There isn't always time to go the gym and sometimes it is super costly to go to a specific class. Here are my favorite ways to get in some exercise at home which are free and convenient!
For all you yogi's out there, this is a great website where you can see full length yoga videos. You can search by length of time, difficulty, body part, or teacher. There are 5 minute classes all the way up to over an hour classes. Grab your mat and give it a try!
Kelli and Daniel offer over 500 full length workouts. No equipment, just Hand weights, only have 5 minutes, just want to work upper body? They have it all. One super nice aspect is they have a timer that counts down different segments of the exercise, so if you are doing a really hard exercise, you can say "well there is only 25 seconds left." It's a nice motivator. Super easy to use website, the hardest part will be determining which workout you want to do!
OK, I know you have all been on YouTube watching cat videos, but have you ever searched BeFIT? They are a YouTube channel that has a bunch of full length workouts from various trainers, from Jillian Michaels all the way to Jane Fonda. If you're looking to switch your exercise up daily, head over here you're bound to find something fun to do!
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Recently, I posted my thoughts regarding 'The Exam Question', an article which was published in the Ottawa Citizen on January 9, 2016. As I prepared to write this companion piece to it – one on alternative methods of assessing student knowledge, I revisited The Big Picture by Denis Littky, both the book and my review of it.
The major premise of Littky's work and of the schools which he has developed is that there are other ways than the way education is currently structured to challenge students to explore ideas and concepts which are of authentic interest to them. And there are alternative ways for students to demonstrate what they know and for them to be assessed.
As a student, I remember doing pages of math homework and wondering, even as I did all the required work, why I had to answer so many questions when I could answer 2 or 3 which would demonstrate just as well that I understood the concepts which had been taught in class. I remember coming into a class and being confronted with blackboards filled with notes which I was expected to copy down. I remember reading novels and plays and poetry and then completing questions which asked me to regurgitate the content and which never asked me what I thought about what I had read. In almost all of my classes, the standard format of delivery of the curriculum was: read the book, do the questions, complete and [hopefully] pass the test. Then we'd move on to the next topic.
The teacher was always at the front of the room teaching the lesson of the day. In general, they taught the course material in the same way for everyone no matter what their students' preferred learning styles or potential educational issues might be. We learned early in our careers as students not to admit that we were having difficulty grocking the material being taught. In part this was due to our fear of appearing stupid to our peers. It was also due to the fact that we learned that almost all of our teachers could not explain what they were teaching differently so that we could understand. And if we still asked for clarification, we learned that we would be considered to be an annoying student who was merely acting out in order to disrupt the class and wrest control from the teacher.
There was an ad for CBC radio which used to be displayed in the subways in Toronto. In it, the top of a listener's head had been pried open so that words and music could be stuffed into it. I always thought that that picture was an apt representation of what my schooling was like – sit obediently while information was crammed into our heads. The course content as established by some outside educational authority was not always of interest to us. I used to wonder when, in my everyday life, I would need to know sonnet form or the parts of a plant or trigonometry.
And then I became a teacher. Initially I taught as I had been taught. I set the order of the day, created seat work, delivered the daily lesson, and marked everything. I was told by my department head to keep them 'cranking out the work.' That's exactly what I did. And my students sometimes balked at the amount of work they were expected to generate — work in which they often had little or no interest. And I know that I really did not enjoy teaching that way with me controlling the content and attempting to contain their responses.
It was not until I remembered all the things I had not liked about my experiences as a student and believed that my students probably felt as I had that I changed what I was doing. I stopped being the ultimate controller. While I did ensure that my students developed the skills essential for them to be able to deal with the work required in the next grade, it was when I let go of the belief that writing tests and exams was the only way for my students to demonstrate their understanding of the course material which we had covered that I opened myself to the possibility of developing and using alternative summative assessments in the courses which I taught.
Alternative assessments provide students with opportunities to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding in ways which are authentic to them. These types of assessments can be created to effectively assess student acquisition of the skills and objectives as set out in course profiles while they allow students to creatively demonstrate their understanding through the creation of work which requires that they use the higher level thinking skills of application and, especially, synthesis. These types of assessments can challenge students to 'think outside the box' to show what they know. Students have some choice and input into the shape and design of the work which they create. And students can use their individual learning strengths as they create their final work for assessment.
I know from my own experience the possibilities of alternative assessments. I had the opportunity to create a course called 'Gifted/Independent Design' which, for a few years, was available for students to choose when they completed their option sheets. Students had to complete 3 independent studies over the course of one semester. Those who took this course learned how to develop questions which they wanted to explore in depth, how to draft proposals for approval in consultation with the teacher, and how to create marking rubrics which were appropriate to the nature of the work they would create. With each independent study, they were expected to keep detailed notes of their process – their successes and failures and how these informed how they proceeded in completing the independent study. For each independent study, they met with the teacher a minimum of 3 times to discuss their progress. For each independent study, students had to create an appropriate final piece for assessment. As well, they had to give an oral presentation of their progress throughout the completion of their project.
Over the period of time that this course was offered at the school at which I taught, the topics which students explored and the projects which they created included: building an electric bass guitar from scratch, investigating robotics and programming remote controlled toys, writing children's stories, composing a piece for trombone quartet, learning how to paint with oils, designing and creating a colouring book on the anatomy of horses, learning logic and then teaching it to the class, operant training of horses, learning calculus and then designing a project on the effect of calculus on object oriented touring, learning hypnosis as a tool to help a friend stop smoking, creating a community awareness project on the plight of the homeless during the winter. And these are only a few independent studies which students created.
Students learned about something which was of genuine interest to them. They learned skills which would be transferrable to other courses and experiences. And they learned more about themselves and what they could do when given the opportunity to have input into what they learned. For me, as the creator of this course and one of the teachers involved in working with the students who chose it, it was extremely rewarding to see the students simply soar. And I've rarely felt as stretched as a teacher or revelled in that feeling as when I taught this course.
The benefits of this type of assessment notwithstanding, there are issues regarding alternative assessments which can make them seem daunting.
Teachers need to decide what are the essential skills and most important knowledge which students must have acquired by the end of the course. Having established that, then teachers must decide how best to assess student acquisition of this knowledge and skills. From that, course outlines can be crafted and lessons created to ensure that these goals are met. In essence, teachers must reverse design a course by considering the end points and designing assessments and course materials to achieve those end points. All of this takes time and reflection and seeking new sources and considering other ways of achieving educational goals. As all teachers can attest, time is usually at a premium.
Alternative assessments require a different way of marking, one which is much less straight forward than scoring tests or exams. And what that evaluation rubric will look like is dependent upon what the alternative assessment is – an interview, an art project, a musical performance, an oral presentation, a student generated play. The rubric needs to evaluate not only content but higher level thinking skills and creativity. Teachers need make conscious choices about what needs to be assessed and how it will be assessed. Again, this takes time to consider and to create. And there rarely seems to be enough time to do everything that teachers are expected to accomplish not only in the school day but also over the semester.
The marking of alternative summative assessments is much less objective. Since not only content but higher level thinking skills and creativity are assessed, there is the potential for teacher subjectivity to affect the overall evaluation of the final work which the student creates. There are several ways to work to offset this: having students involved in the creation of the rubric which will be used for their work, having a few students also mark presentations using the same marking scheme as the teacher, having another teacher invited to evaluate the final work created by students. These do help; however, they require time to teach students how to create rubrics or for other students to practice using the rubric for presentations or for other teachers to be available to be part of the final assessment process.
For students, completing alternative assessments can free them to explore topics in the depth that they wish. However, with this, comes the possibility of added stress as they must manage the preparation of such assessments with the demands of all their other courses during a semester or year. And, if these students are working on several different alternative pieces at the same time, this might only exacerbate their stress to complete the work on time and to their personal satisfaction. Thus, time management is absolutely critical.
As well, even though these types of assessments allow for students to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding in ways which are as bona fide as final pen and ink exams might be, there is little carry over of this type of assessment into the post-secondary academic world where essays and lab reports and final exams are still the order of the day.
There are those who argue that alternative assessments do little more than water down educational standards. They argue against alternative assessment suggesting that this type of assessment allows students to achieve inflated marks because teachers are striving to account for student learning by means other than strict testing and exams. In today's educational system there seems to be an emphasis on limiting the number of teachers working. Class sizes have increased, minimum requirements for course registration have risen, many courses [especially some senior courses] are cancelled or grades and levels are combined to facilitate timetabling. Thus, with fewer teachers and larger classes, alternative assessments which require time to create, complete and assess might seem to be more work than they are worth. Exams are relatively short and sweet and cut and dried even as they may be slanted toward students who have better literacy skills. The use of short answers and multiple choice questions allow teachers who must work within compressed time frames to mark quickly. And so, the culture of pen and ink final summative assessments seems to still hold sway.
I do believe that there are times when a final written summative assessment is the best way to assess student knowledge and skills, and there are times when alternatives would do a better job of it. Sometimes a written exam is the best way to assess and it is not the only way.
It is a challenge to create alternative summative assessments. And it is one which I know teachers are extremely capable of meeting. As they educate in this quantum age, they only need to believe in their ability and in the value and viability of this type of assessment as they choose how best to assess their students.


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Der 3. Weltcup der Biathlon-Saison 2021/22 fand im  österreichischen Hochfilzen, dem Austragungsort der WM 2017, statt. Die Wettkämpfe im Langlauf- und Biathlonzentrum Hochfilzen wurden zwischen dem 6. und 12. Dezember 2021 ausgetragen.

Wettkampfprogramm

Teilnehmende Nationen und Athleten

Ausgangslage
Als Führende des Gesamtweltcups gingen nach den ersten zwei Wochen Lisa Hauser und Vetle Sjåstad Christiansen an den Start, die Nationenwertung führte bei den Männern Norwegen, bei den Frauen Schweden an. In der deutschen Mannschaft gab es nur einen Wechsel, für die erkrankte Anna Weidel bekam Franziska Hildebrand nach fast zwei Jahren wieder einen Startplatz. Währenddessen konnte bei den Österreichern Julian Eberhard nach seinem Sturz in der vorigen Woche nicht an den Start gehen, die sechs Startplätze wurden mit Patrick Jakob, Lucas Pitzer und erneut Magnus Oberhauser aufgefüllt. In der Schweizer Mannschaft ging bei den Frauen Irene Cadurisch für Selina Gasparin an den Start, bei den Männern übernahm Eligius Tambornino den Platz von Joscha Burkhalter. Im italienischen Team übernahm mit Eleonora Fauner eine Debütantin den Startplatz von Hannah Auchentaller.

Ergebnisse

Verlauf

Sprint

Männer
Start: Freitag, 10. Dezember 2021, 11:25 Uhr

Gemeldet: 119  Nicht am Start:   Nicht beendet:

Johannes Kühn konnte dank einer hervorragenden Laufzeit zum ersten Mal in seiner Karriere ein Weltcuprennen gewinnen. Martin Ponsiluoma platzierte sich mit derselben Fehleranzahl auf der Zwei, während Anton Smolski zum ersten Mal in die Top 10 und gleich auf das Podest lief. Während beispielsweise die Norweger strauchelten, schossen einige schwächere Läufer Null Fehler. So konnten unter anderem Dsmitryj Lasouski, Olli Hiidensalo und Vytautas Strolia ihr persönliches Bestergebnis unter den Top 15 erreichen. Bester Schweizer war erneut Benjamin Weger auf Rang 13, Felix Leitner konnte als bester Österreicher immerhin Platz 32 erreichen. Für die Italiener war einmal mehr Lukas Hofer auf Rang 23 der stärkste.

Frauen
Start: Freitag, 10. Dezember 2021, 14:15 Uhr

Gemeldet: 116  Nicht am Start: 2

Bei den Frauen gab es mit Hanna Sola ebenfalls eine Premierensiegerin, die sich mit einem riesigen Abstand vor Justine Braisaz-Bouchet und Marte Olsbu Røiseland auf dem ersten Rang platzierte. Für Ida Lien auf Platz 4 war es das beste Karriereresultat. Lisa Vittozzi und Vanessa Hinz konnten sich als Beste ihrer Nationen unter den Top 10 platzieren, für die Österreicher und Schweizer waren Lisa Hauser und Lena Häcki einmal mehr die besten Athletinnen.

Verfolgung

Männer
Start: Samstag, 11. Dezember 2021, 12:15 Uhr

Gemeldet: 60  Nicht am Start:

Quentin Fillon Maillet führte einen französischen Doppelsieg ins Ziel, nachdem er das finale Schießen gegen Johannes Kühn fehlerfrei absolvierte, während Kühn drei Strafrunden laufen musste und als bester Deutscher auf Rang 15 landete. Felix Leitner konnte dank vier fehlerfreier Schießeinlagen von Rang 32 auf 6 laufen, Lukas Hofer und Benjamin Weger waren erneut die Besten für Italien und die Schweiz. Den größten Rückstand konnte der Russe Wassili Tomschin aufholen, der dank ebenfalls fehlerfreiem Schießen von 47 auf 10 laufen konnte. Auch Peppe Femling schoss Null Fehler und lief von Platz 58 auf 24. Anton Smolski und Tero Seppälä konnten wieder unter die Top 10 laufen.  Durch seinen Podestplatz ging Sebastian Samuelsson in Frankreich zum ersten Mal in der Geschichte in einem gelb-rot-blauen Trikot an den Start. Die Nationenwertung führte weiterhin Norwegen an.

Frauen
Start: Sonntag, 12. Dezember 2021, 14:30 Uhr

Gemeldet: 60  Nicht am Start: 3

Marte Olsbu Røiseland konnte auch das zweite Verfolgungsrennen der Saison gewinnen, nachdem sie die Sprintsiegerin Hanna Sola auf der letzten Runde überholen konnte. Elvira Öberg lief von Platz 17 aufs Podest. Denise Herrmann und Vanessa Hinz liefen in die Top 10, Lisa Hauser, Lena Häcki und Dorothea Wierer liefen als beste ihrer Nationen alle in die Punkteränge. Olena Bilossjuk auf Rang 13 war die einzige fehlerfreie Schützin des Tages. Røiseland reiste im gelben Trikot der Weltcupführenden nach Frankreich, die Nationenwertung führte weiterhin Schweden an.

Staffel

Frauen
Start: Samstag, 11. Dezember 2021, 14:15 Uhr

Gemeldet und am Start: 24 Nationen  Überrundet: 4

Die zweite Frauenstaffel der Saison gewann Schweden ungefährdet vor Russland und Frankreich. Deutschland wurde nach einer Strafrunde von Vanessa Voigt früh zurückgeworfen, konnte sich am Ende aber noch auf Platz 4 schieben. Nach ihrem katastrophalen Rennen in Östersund konnte sich die österreichische Staffel dank starkem Schießens auf dem sechsten Rang platzieren und damit ihr bestes Ergebnis überhaupt egalisieren, Christina Rieder setzte sich im Fotofinish gegen Tiril Eckhoff durch. Italien und die Schweiz platzierten sich außerhalb der Top 10, zum einen bedingt durch das Fehlen Dorothea Wierers, zum anderen durch drei Strafrunden von Elisa Gasparin, nachdem die Schweiz zur Hälfte des Rennens noch auf Podiumskurs lag.  Die Staffelwertung wurde punktgleich von Schweden und Frankreich angeführt.

Männer
Start: Sonntag, 12. Dezember 2021, 11:45 Uhr

Gemeldet und am Start: 27 Nationen  Überrundet: 3

Die Reihenfolge auf dem Podest entsprach der der vorherigen Woche, Norwegen siegte klar vor Frankreich und Russland. Deutschlands Schlussläufer Nawrath lag bis zum letzten Anstieg der Schlussrunde auf Rang 3, musste sich dort aber klar Eduard Latypow geschlagen geben. Die anderen deutschsprachigen Staaten fielen durch Strafrunden auf die Plätze 10, 11 und 16 zurück, Belgien wurde gar überrundet. Die Staffelwertung führte Norwegen klar an.

Auswirkungen

Debütanten
Folgende Athleten nahmen zum ersten Mal an einem Biathlon-Weltcup teil. Dabei kann es sich sowohl um Individualrennen, als auch um Staffelrennen handeln.

Weblinks
 Ergebnisse auf Biathlonworld

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The Role of Agri-Tech in Society
The Role of Agri-Tech within Society
Finding sustainable ways of producing enough nutritious food to feed an ever-growing population
As the global population continues to rise, the seriousness of the challenges to the food supply chain and the subsequent environmental impacts should not be underestimated. It is predicted that 60 percent more food will be needed worldwide by 2050 to feed the expanding global population.
Finding effective and reliable solutions
Agriculture is a multi-billion-pound global industry that's amongst the most innovative in the world. But climate change, impact on the environment and evolving consumer preferences continue to create new pressures for producers. Finding effective and reliable solutions to these challenges that work across a wide range of farms, animals, soil types and climate zones involves significant amounts of research & development activity. It also requires the use of facilities specifically designed to allow researchers to measure and analyse data – ideally in as close to real-life systems as possible. This is where CIEL, together with the wider family of Agri-Tech Centres, comes in.
Centres for Agricultural Innovation
The UK Government, through Innovate UK, has invested almost £90 million of government funds in CIEL and its sister Centres for Agricultural Innovation. These investments have developed new infrastructure and research capabilities that will address many of the existing and new challenges facing UK agriculture. Each Centre works alongside some of the best research institutions and most innovative companies in the world, all of whom are equally committed to investing in the right people, research and technology to discover new ways to help transform UK food and farming.
Having world class research capability won't solve the myriad of agri-food sector challenges overnight. It will, however, ensure that relevant solutions continue to be developed to emerging opportunities and threats facing the sector. Continued innovation will provide new growth opportunities for organisations supplying agricultural markets, ensure a long-term future for proactive UK farmers, and help guarantee the availability of nutritious and affordable food for all whilst preserving the planet's health and wellbeing for future generations.

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Heart surgeon was simply the best
World of cardiology mourns heart surgeon James Munro
By Melanie Adams
James and Jane Monro
HE was one of the greatest heart surgeons of his generation.
That is how James Monro will be remembered by friends, colleagues and the many thousands of Southampton patients whose lives he saved during his long and prestigious career.
The 73-year-old retired cardiac surgeon has sadly passed away but his legacy is long-lasting having influenced the treatment of heart disease for adults and children throughout the world.
From being at the forefront of medical advances, pioneering many techniques in congenital heart surgery, to playing an instrumental role in transforming Southampton's cardiac unit into the world-leading facility it is today – Mr Monro always had a passion for his patients and a drive for excellence.
Recruited in Southampton in 1973 by his late colleague Sir Keith Ross, Jim, as he was known to his friends, was a member of a team consisting of one cardiac surgeon and two cardiologists. Over the next 30 years he oversaw the unit's move from the former Western Hospital to Southampton General in 1983, operating on more than 10,000 adults and 2,000 children. He played a pivotal role in seeing the city's cardiac unit become a world-leading centre, which went from performing 400 operations a year in 1975 to nearly 2,000 now.
Respected both on the national and international cardiac stage, he pioneered corrective cardiac surgery on small babies and was a role model and mentor to many of today's top surgeons.
His expertise saw him become the President of the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in the UK and also President of the European Association for Cardiothoracic Surgery.
Paying tribute to the dad-of-three, who died at the end of last week after a long battle with cancer, colleague and friend consultant cardiologist Iain Simpson, who is President of the British Cardiovascular Society, said: "Jim was one of the greatest heart surgeons of his generation, passionate about the pursuit of excellence and the care of his patients.
Gentleman "He influenced the treatment of heart disease for adults and children throughout the world as a clinical leader, influential teacher and dedicated surgeon of extraordinary talent.
"Jim was a true gentleman, a wonderful colleague as well as one of the nicest people you could ever hope to meet. His loss will be met by great sadness by all his friends and colleagues across the globe and the thoughts of the whole cardiovascular community are with Jane and his family at this sad time."
Dr Tony Salmon, consultant congenital cardiologist, who worked with Mr Monro for 14 years in Southampton, added: "When he came to Southampton having worked in New Zealand's Greenlane Hospital he took cardiac surgery to another level. He was a gentleman who was totally committed to his patients and their families and he was well respected both nationally and internationally."
Charity was also a great passion for Mr Monro and he played a vital role in the establishment of Wessex Heartbeat in 1992 with colleague Rob Lamb, for which he was a trustee until last year, having also been chairman.
His expertise and dedication to providing the best patient care saw him play an integral part in the charity securing grants, including one that was crucial to the £1.2m refurbishment of the world-renowned children's heart unit, Ocean Ward.
Even after his retirement in 2004, aged 65, his links with the city's cardiac work remained strong, with him joining the fight to save children's heart surgery in Southampton when it faced the axe.
Alison Farrell, chief executive of Wessex Heartbeat, said: "We had at our helm a man who had been at the forefront of medical advances in the field of cardiac surgery and by all accounts was a brilliant surgeon. His legacy is long-lasting.
"We had all hoped his retirement could have been so much longer and we offer our very sincere condolences to Jane and his family."


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Q: How to create the bitmap and decode it at the same time I am creating a bitmap and it takes about 11 mb in the heap , though it is of the small size. Well I wanted to know if I can create the bitmap and also sclae it as a same time. The reason I want to do it is , the memory allocation , as If I understand correctly from different bitmap questions which are posted here , and that is

The bitmap allocates the memory as when it is created

So if its , then scaling it again take some process time and also increase the heap size until and unless the garbage collection is not occurred
So what I am doing is
        screenHeight = displaymetrics.heightPixels;
        screenWidth = displaymetrics.widthPixels;
        float aspectRatio = screenWidth / screenHeight;

        int modifiedScreenHeight = 400;
        int modifiedScreenWidth = (int) (modifiedScreenHeight * aspectRatio);
        mBitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(modifiedScreenWidth, modifiedScreenHeight, Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888);

So now it is creating the bitmap and allocation the memory , by memory analyzer tool in android studio I can see that it took 11mb in memory.
But I want to minimize them ,I have visited a link  and I want to do some more scaling by options as show in this video . but it uses the file to decode such as
BitmapFactory.decodeFile(??,options);

where as I have no file to decode from , I want to decode it from the bitmap I created and to wash away the last created bitmap to clear the memory.
Or if it is possible to set the options when creating it so that we can avoid from extra memory allocation .
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A: You can use this using BitmapFactory.Options - specifically, use the options to decode the width / height of the bitmap, then sampleSize to determine how large the generated bitmap will be.
According to your example, you'd like the width/height of the bitmap to be 400 by 400 * aspectRatio. So, first, you'll need to see how large the bitmap needs to be. Do this as so:
BitmapFactory.Options options = new BitmapFactory.Options();
options.inJustDecodeBounds = true;

BitmapFactory.decodeFile(??, options);

int bitmapWidth = options.outWidth;
int bitmapHeight = options.outHeight;

This action will only decode the bitmaps size, without actually allocating memory for the bitmap's pixels. This is good because it's a very quick and light operation which doesn't require much resources and helps you make a more educated decision when loading the bitmap. Now we must use these size to determine how big the generated bitmap will be.
int sampleSize = 1;

while (bitmapWidth / sampleSize > 400 && bitmapHieght / sampleSize > 400 * aspectRatio)
    sampleSize *= 2;

sampleSize must be a power of 2 for this to work, and what it will do is determine how many pixels to "skip" when reading the bitmap into memory. This algorithm will set a sample size to a size equal to 1st sample size which will produce a bitmap immediately smaller than the required bounds. You can tweak this if you'd like a slightly different implementation.
Now that you have the sample size, set it with in the options object and load the actual bitmap:
options.inJustDecodeBounds = false;
options.inSampleSize = sampleSize;

Bitmap bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeFile(??, options);

The generated bitmap will be smaller than the required bounds, thus limiting your memory requirements for creating the bitmap object.
Hope this helps.

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How to talk about cycling (when no-one is listening)
I have a habit of talking cycling.
While my wife is engaging me in some very necessary debate about our mortgage payments, our children's education, or some other important impending domestic deadline, I find myself listening for a gap in the conversation so I can rekindle the debate around Richie Porte's two minute time penalty in the Giro d'Italia, or get all deep and meaningful about Campagnolo.
I hear myself doing it, and berate myself for trivialising some important discussion by bringing up cycling – I'm not completely lacking in self-awareness, after all – but then conclude that, well, since we're on the subject…
Getting deep and meaningful about Campagnolo…
(Image: marcellbrivio Flickr CC)
I also do it with friends, although I've learnt through trial and error to stop bothering those with no interest in cycling (poor souls…) with whom it's a conversational cul-de-sac. So those who I know are (at least vaguely) cycling fans get both barrels.
You see, here in the UK if you're a football fan, for example, you have ample opportunity to discuss your favourite topic, along with reading about it, watching it, and listening to other people talk about. I often think that 'surely everything's been said now, when it comes to football, and can't we just have a couple of weeks off?'
The problem is that football is the medium through which much of the male population of this country express themselves – heaven forbid we should have to have an open and honest conversation about something without the safety net of twenty-two men running around a pitch and swearing at each other.
(Perish the thought!)
But cycling, although more popular than ever, is still a long way from mainstream.
Most of my workmates don't want to hear my theory about how Brian Cookson is playing the long game in the fight against doping, and if someone down the pub buys me a beer, it's probably on the basis that I'll stop trying to explain the tactical failings of Ettix Quick-Step in the one-day classics.
For some incomprehensible reason, these people don't want to know!
So for all of us cycling fans these bike related thoughts build up inside until they have nowhere else to go, and inevitably they come gushing out all over the nearest person who shows even the vaguest flicker of interest in the sport.
Many people I know have clearly stopped bringing the topic up in my company for fear of finding themselves on the receiving end of a barrage of half formed opinions about Peter Sagan's recent return to form, and what is most easily referred to as 'the Astana situation'.
TdF champion Vincenzo Nibali distances himself from Astana doping woes: http://t.co/Mm94CyVUy3 #cycling pic.twitter.com/sEB0CjxPZ6
— road.cc (@roadcc) May 28, 2015
Luckily I do have some friends who, like me, find the general topic of real life stressful, complicated, and sometimes a bit dull, and would much rather see the world through the prism of a slightly archaic, morally questionable, and ultimately pointless professional sport.
Which, thinking about it, brings us neatly back to football.
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9 comments on "How to talk about cycling (when no-one is listening)"
gerry miller
Football and cycling … what else is there? Apart from sex and booze that is …
ragtimecyclist
Well yeah…not JUST cycling, obviously 😉
fossilcyclist
Now I've just heard on the BBC news that Chris Froome is now 2nd in the Dauphiné so maybe it's a bit more mainstream and as for . . . . . . .
Actually, I think you're onto something here – I've been hearing daily updates from the Tour de Swiss
…on the BBC radio news all week. Mainstream!
peakpedals
alexmwilkins
Ditto. Maybe it's a guy thing…
I'm spotting a trend here…
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I finally got around to reading Fire and Fury, Michael Wolff's January opus on the dramedy going on inside the Trump administration. When this book came out in January, much of the talk was about whether it implied the president lacked the mental faculties to govern. But I think this book contains a more interesting angle–it illustrates precisely why the Trump administration is so erratic and inconsistent on policy and has helped complexify my understanding of how the admin works. Most importantly, it illustrates why other Republican administrations would be much more disturbing.
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I've long argued that the Democratic Party needs to use its time in the wilderness to remake itself so it can pursue and deliver real benefits for poor and working class voters and be seen to do so in its campaigns. This remaking necessarily requires a period of disunity and chaos within the Democratic Party–central questions about what being a Democrat is for need to be asked, and different people will and should give different answers. Those differences should be resolved in blood-soaked primaries. But I'm increasingly concerned it's not going to happen–too many Democrats seem to believe that the party needs to unify at all costs to present the strongest possible electoral challenge to Trump in 2018 and 2020. This is a dangerous misreading of the historical situation. The biggest threat to the United States is not the Trump presidency–it is the next Republican presidency, or perhaps the one after that. Let me explain…
There's a Good Chance Obamacare Won't Be Repealed
The CBO has released its report on the senate's version of Trumpcare and the numbers are once again pretty grim–22 million additional Americans would be without insurance by 2026. 15 million of the 22 million would already be kicked out by the 2018 midterms. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell thought he could get Senate moderates to vote for the bill by delaying its Medicaid cuts, but the cuts are even larger than the House bill's when they do come. There is deep opposition to this bill within the Republican ranks, and I seriously doubt whether the Republicans are capable of passing this bill, or any other major healthcare bill, for that matter. Read the rest of this entry »
Cruz vs Rubio: The Unfinished Business from the Republican Primary
After Mitt Romney lost in 2012, the Republican Party establishment decided it needed to expand its base and wrote a report to this effect. The plan was for the party to triangulate to some degree on immigration and social issues to win more votes from Hispanics and women, moderating its positions and principles to make itself more attractive to these demographic groups. As Jeb Bush flamed out, Marco Rubio became the poster boy of this new style of conservative politics. But the Republican anti-establishment never bought into this strategy. Led by Ted Cruz, they firmly believed that Romney lost because he failed to excite the Republican base and that the answer was for the party to nominate a "true conservative". The 2016 Republican primary was all set to be a showdown between "reform conservatism" and the Cruz counterrevolution, but then Donald Trump showed up and made the whole thing about him and about the public's growing economic frustration. It now looks increasingly likely (but far from certain) that Trump will lose by a significant margin. What effect will that have on this debate and the party's prospects in 2020?
Is Theresa May Britain's Mitt Romney?
With the abrupt departure of Andrea Leadsom from the Conservative Party leadership contest, Theresa May has cruised into number 10 as Britain's new PM. To many, it appears that the Tory establishment has reasserted control over the Conservative Party. But I'm not convinced this is true–when Mitt Romney won the 2012 Republican primary, many people assumed that this meant the Republican establishment was in firm control, but within just four years Donald Trump had run Romney and the rest of the establishment Republicans off the Tarpeian Rock. Indeed, a close look at the data reveals that just as the 2012 result concealed deep weaknesses within the Republican establishment, the Tory establishment remains extremely vulnerable. May owes her victory to the incompetence and disorganization of her rivals, and she will need to be extraordinarily careful to preserve it.
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The reality is we all have the same amount of time each and every day. You can work 20 hours a week, homeschool 20 hours a week, care for your home 20 hours a week and STILL have 108 hours available. Take away 56 hours for sleeping and you have 52 hours available for other tasks. And that is AFTER homeschooling, sleeping, working and homemaking. The truth is you have plenty of time to work from home!
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So, where can you find time to work? You may be able to knock out an hour each day by giving up Facebook and working instead. Maybe you could work an hour each night after the kids go to bed, or if you have all younger kids, you could work during naptime.
As a homeschool mom, I know my mornings are crazy! My afternoons are more laid-back, and my evenings are reserved for my husband. So for me, finding time to work requires me getting up a LOT earlier each day. Gone are the mornings when I sleep in; I am up at 5:45 am every. single. weekday. By doing this I immediately give myself TEN hours each week to work (6 am -8 am). On weeks when life gets busy, I am still able to get my work hours in, because they do not intrude on my day.
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Translated By: Dhruvkumar S. Patel, USA
Professor Jethalal would be overjoyed at seeing this large number of devotees congregating to get a glimpse of Shastriji Maharaj. He wrote an incident in one of his reports: "When revered Brahmaswarup Shastriji Maharaj Yagnapurushdasji started building large, towering mandirs, some people started questioning. Why is it necessary to build such large mandirs? At that time, Shastriji Maharaj used to respond in his firm tone that he was absolutely certain that many devotees would come to these mandirs, that as big as they are, there would not be enough standing room to accommodate them. This has been proven right as predicted.
Divinity Supercedes Intelligence
"It was Sunday, the day of Kartik sud Purnima in Vikram Samvat 1996 (26 November 1939 CE).
"This was a sweet combination, like sugar in milk. It was very convenient for people like us who have to toil to make a living. As per Shastriji Maharaj's wish, we went to Bochasan mandir from Ahmedabad on that Purnima day. We witnessed that the whole mandir complex was jam packed. Everyone's gaze was unblinkingly concentrated on Shastriji Maharaj. The large meeting hall proved to be too small to accommodate all the devotees.
"The devotees who had congregated in this festival formed a queue after the announcement for lunch. Twenty-eight maunds (560 kg) of rice were consumed as prasad during lunch and 10 maunds (200 kg) of khichdi were consumed during the evening meal! Thousands of devotees increasingly experienced the divine grace of Shastriji Maharaj, day by day. He is indeed the heart of Shriji Maharaj and the means to attain moksha" (Swaminarayan Prakash, December1939, p. 58).
Professor Jethalal, who at one time always weighed everything only on the scale of intelligence, now experienced that such valuations were utterly trivial in the presence of Shastriji Maharaj. Here is someone who is divine and above everything, who is not fathomable by our senses, and who can only be attained by complete submission to the divine. Jethalal, while writing about his experience of the primacy of divinity over intelligence, noted in one of his letters: "When Shriji Maharaj left his human form to return to his eternal abode, Akshardham, Dada Khachar and other devotees were extremely bereaved and despondent. At that time, Shriji Maharaj appeared in his divine form to his devotees, consoled them and told them not to mourn the departure of his physical form. I will always remain present in Satsang through the Gunatit Sant. These divine words of Shriji Maharaj will remain true forever. We are seeing the proof of these divine words. The same divine power that Shriji Maharaj deployed to establish Satsang during his time, he is expending right now through Shastri Yagnapurushdasji; and we can see it ourselves. People like me who had become atheists under the influence of western education, have now learned the true glory of Shriji Maharaj through Shastriji Maharaj. Only a true sadhu like Shastriji Maharaj can achieve the extremely difficult task to inspire someone to change from atheism to theism."
Personal Experience of Miracles
"I feel like narrating here a few of the numerous miracles that Shriji Maharaj is currently performing through Shastriji Maharaj; I like to mention here only the miracles that I have witnessed with my own eyes."
Thus saying, Jethalal started writing about the series of divine episodes that he himself had personally witnessed. While narrating these episodes, Jethalal repeatedly certifies their authenticity: "This I have witnessed with my own eyes. There is no stronger assurance than what is witnessed with one's own eyes. I only pray that the devotees from Africa definitely come to see him and benefit from his divine blessings. I humbly request anyone presently desiring to realize Shriji Maharaj to certainly meet Shastriji Maharaj and experience his divine presence. This will prove unequivocally that Shriji Maharaj is the avatari of all other avatars. This is undoubtedly realized from all the divine episodes currently transpiring in the presence of Shastriji Maharaj. There is no other path for atyantik kalyan without dedicating to him" (Letter to Africa Satsang Community, Date: 12 July 1937).
Birth of "Swaminarayan Prakash"
The erudite Jethalal was a reformist, a true patriot and an intellectual. Now his aim in life had changed. He started thinking more and more about how to organize and mobilize the satsang activities inspired by Shastriji Maharaj for the spiritual well-being of the average person. The moment he entered the Satsang fraternity, he began realizing that there was an urgent need of a periodic magazine to inform and educate devotees about the faith. Through a periodical, devotees could be reached and informed of Shastriji Maharaj's news, the unprecedented philosophy of Akshar-Purushottam and the divine experiences of devotees in the presence of Shastriji Maharaj. Therefore, he requested Shastriji Maharaj on many occasions about such a publication. He also enlisted the help of other prominent devotees, such as, Vinayakrao Trivedi, Champakbhai Banker, Nandulal Manchharam, Khengarjibhai Chauhan and others. Shastriji Maharaj eventually consented and gave his blessings and in the month of October 1938 CE the monthly Swaminarayan Prakash was born.
At this time no one could even fathom the scope of this farsighted undertaking. However, each issue of Swaminarayan Prakash has helped to advance the fundamental tenets and values of the Swaminarayan faith. Presently, with its circulation in thousands, the start of this publication was truly miraculous and Jethalal was the driving force behind its inception.
The translator, Dhruvkumar S. Patel, is the grandson-in-law of Prof. Jethalal Swaminarayan.
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Horde Partisans' Fireside: "Is the North Lost?"
Savvy Kneel
In a fireside chat with Horde's Partisans SIG this weekend, AlphastarPilot gave a grim update on the state of the war in the north from the perspective of those who live there. Partisans has been on the front lines of the war assisting their allies' defense – a position Alphastar said the group was never intended to be in, preferring to fight a guerilla-style war on their own terms rather than on the front lines.
In what became a recurring theme, he lamented the fact that the North's fractured alliance suffers from a "failure to coordinate at the highest levels." Asked about the Imperium's current offensive against CO2 space, he said that his group can't defend their allies if they aren't willing to defend themselves. He was equally critical of Horde's other allies, noting that NCdot typically will only form for their own FCs rather than participating in coalition fleets, and noting that Pandemic Legion is "very strange" at the moment and nobody is quite sure what is going on.
When asked by his group members if there was anyone else to "batphone," the response was one word: Horde. But the consensus was that it wouldn't do much good. Like Partisans, the larger Horde alliance prefers not to defend allies who won't form up in their own defense. In addition, he noted, Horde is most concerned at the moment with fortifying Geminate in case the war reaches that far.
Asked outright if the North is lost, Alphastar said he believed it was. "Goons have perfected that they can stay on this permanent deployment while still having fairly strong security of their krablands," he noted. "Unless people on our end decide to start using their brains and try to tactically outsmart Goons instead of just doing the same old feeding Muninns under cyno jammers to them, I don't think this is ever going to change."
Despite the Imperium's early struggle with the mechanics of cyno jammers, he noted, once they were accounted for in strategic planning, "Goons have proven it's very easy to take down cyno jammers – it was just a good meme the first month of this campaign where they forgot what those were."
"Do we have a counter to a 500-grid Titan fleet," one questioner asked. "Yeah, don't fight," was the answer.
The general consensus was that the war will continue until the Imperium tires of fighting it. "They're pretty unstoppable, I'm not going to lie. It very much makes me feel like the PIBC-Serenity thing could definitely happen."
"Even when goons fear they might lose, they just have PGL bring a fleet of TEST or something up here."
Some members questioned the feasibility of a counterattack against Delve, "We can," said Alphastar, "but they have their entire shield supercap and titan fleet there, which is larger than horde's entire titan and supercap fleet."
While the consensus was that the Imperium sits in the driver's seat, there was also the feeling that Goons lack the "stamina" for a prolonged war and will eventually disappear back into Delve for awhile.
A Reddit thread related to the fireside prompted a spirited debate on that particular question, with representatives from both sides of the war speaking out about the motives for, and conduct of, the war's main protagonists. Several themes emerged from the discussion.
One was that the Imperial Legacy has an innate advantage in that there are fewer groups to coordinate, giving their two main coalitions an advantage over the five-plus groups loosely allied in the north. The strength of that alliance was another key theme. The general consensus on Reddit was that PanFam made this war inevitable by attacking TEST, which turned to the Imperium as its only hope for survival, in turn giving the Imperium a strong enough ally that the two of them together have been able to steamroll the North up to this point. Part of that consensus was that TEST and Imperium forces reliably come to one another's defense when needed, while some members of the Northern forces do not.
The tactical decision-making referenced by Alphastar emerged as another theme on Reddit. The feeling was that the Imperium is tactically superior to their foes, who tend to retry the same things that have failed in the past.
The final advantage is morale. Of course it is always more fun to be on a winning side, but one of the themes that came through on Reddit is that the very mentalities the North is counting on to eventually prompt the Goons to look elsewhere, are the same mentalities that make Goons, Goons. An alliance obsessively focused on infrastructure and economic development is not likely to become frustrated with the grind of constantly building up the resources to maintain supercapital superiority. Similarly, groups that focus on killboard statistics are likely to take a morale hit when the chips are down. As one Reddit commenter put it, "Attempting to batten down the hatches and hoping the two most autistic groups in the game get bored is certainly one way to try to win a war."
In short, the conclusion on Reddit – both among the Imperial Legacy members who participated in the discussion, as well as some of their foes – was that this war plays to the particular strengths of TEST and the Imperium, and that they are not likely to slow down anytime soon.
Alphastar seemed to agree. "Pureblind and Fade are lost for sure," he said. As to the future, "It depends on how long Goons want to keep doing this."
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Rammel Kas
In short: Until we want to.
Tomoko Tanue
aye, the north is as good as gone. minus Geminate. definitely gonna be a reshuffling of powers after this. might end up being Horde as one of the super powers xD (ah….i can dream, though compared to the others in the north…it rings a bell of truth, i mean hordes kinda absorbing PL at this point. the child has become the master.)
biggest question though, is can anyone stop the Imperium(they stronger now than in World War Bee). my money's on a BoB style end. i mean….they so similar to how BOB was in the end, even got Fortress Delve. so seems the only way for them to fall is internally.
Ganthrithor Tomoko Tanue
The only thing about the Imperium that's similar to BoB is it's silhouette on the map. We're cultural and organizational opposites.
Tomoko Tanue Ganthrithor
but the greatest weakness is the same as BoB. aka your so powerful that the biggest threat is internal rather than external
anaisanais501 Tomoko Tanue
I wonder how many active Titan pilots there are in the North? I'm guessing quite a few. Probably more than Goons + TAPI combined. This is the nub of it really isn't it. Too many egos, no unified command, etc. I would say the North deserves to fall.
Vertigoe anaisanais501
if they had more active titan pilots than us then the x47 armor timer was the perfect time to show it and they had fewer. So no they don't.
Robbie_Gluon Vertigoe
I think they do, just not so many that wanted to risk dying on the x47 hill.
Vertigoe Robbie_Gluon
then the answer is they don't. If you arent willing to risk it when it counts then you might as well not have it. If you are only going to use it to gank, when the big battle roles around you are pretty useless.
Yes, that's my point. There may well be enough "force" in the North to stand up to Goons, if only their organisation wasn't so terrible.
Rammel Kas Tomoko Tanue
What you're suggesting so far seems to have no ground on any level but a similar use of the map, which is basically still dictated by the same set of regional gates, and now jump ranges. So appears to be coincidental.
Please look at this again. I am sure the answers you find on an intellectual critical inquiry will blow your mind. It's actually a very VERY deep rabbit hole.
Michele Manfredi
i am happy… very happy for that ….goons war machine is epic… take back the north!
Matt Critchley Michele Manfredi
Might want to consider what happens to a game when one side cannot be beaten.
highonpop Matt Critchley
goons can be beat. remember world war bee? The shoe is just on the other foot now and the coalition of alliances that took the North in WWB aren't funded and organized like they used to be.
Alot highonpop
World war bee was backed by a casino empire which was dismantled and banned as soon as the conflict they started was over.
As long as the leadership structure of the goonswarm remains intact I don't believe any group could rise with enough unity, funding and purpose to take down the goons at this point.
Robbie_Gluon Alot
Are you suggesting that the pressure on the North is such that at some point it's going to break and a new more unified entity is going to emerge that would be better able to take Goons on?
Alot Robbie_Gluon
The opposite. I don't feel that any new force could rise to challenge the goons at this point unless the goons implode of their own accord.
Havish Montak highonpop
Also remember that as soon as the casino coffers were gone, Goons started winning. Delve was taken and Lumpy bashed in. The Culture died due to attrition. CO2 was given Judgement.
Arcadia Kain
Been awhile since I have played Eve, but I distinctly remember a conversation between myself and a few PanFam guys during a twitch stream of a TEST citidel being taken down. It went something Like this:
"Just so I'm clear…its Test+Imperium vs the world now?"
Pamfam "Yeah, we are gonna wipe them both out"
Me "You don't wanna do that, they are the only real competition you guys have"
PamFam "Fuck TEST, Fuck Goons. We are wiping TEST out right now, what are goons gonna do about it?"
Me "lol you guys are a cancer to New Eden, you are so dumb that you don't even realize you are about to wake a sleeping beast. Do you know your history? Do you remember BoB?"
PanFam "Goons aint gonna do shit about it"
Me "I can't wait to see my boys rain hell down on your heads. You guys are as good as done and you don't even know it."
I suggested the Name Legacy Wars for this war, not just because of the Legacy Coalition, which, from where i'm sitting, this war started because PanFam wanted to utterly wipe them, but because the Legacy of New Eden, and many of it's longstanding factions are at stake. This needed to happen for a long time. The bad guys (and thats exactly what PanFam are, the villans of New Eden) have his behind the mask of "the good guys" for too long. Time for the real good guys to dismantle them, and give the north back to the players, because, lets face it…we don't conquer the weak and subjugate them like PamFam does. Our MO has always been fun fights with everyone, and bloody the noses of the bullies of New Eden whenever we need to.
Looks like those bullies overstepped. Kinda sad I'm not there to be part of finally putting PanFam down.
Ganthrithor Arcadia Kain
This is pretty much on the nose: for decades now it's been a running conflict between the descendants of the original "elite PvP, OG, played beta" crew and Goonswarm, who've historically given no fucks about green killboards or e-honour and just want to have fun with their friends and get spacerich. The names of the alliances and coalitions change, but most of the opposition has been "people who used to be in BoB" for a long time now. PL used to kind of be their own thing, but seem to be the new Mercenary Coalition– "Definitely not BoB (NCdot) pets."
At the end of the day, a room full of elitist fucks pointing fingers at one another and blaming each other for losing space battles is never going to triumph over a group of people who treat each other decently, look out for one another, and all want to enjoy getting rich together. I'm part of probably the most elitist, PvP-focused sig in the entire coalition and even we don't get upset about losing space-fights– we're just a bunch of pals who like to hang out and gatecamp. We try not to feed too hard, but at the end of the day we're just in it to have fun together and laugh at all the dumb people we blow up. Goons don't take the game too seriously: we're not EVE players– we're gamers and general nerds who– amongst other things– play EVE. We've been evicted from various regions enough times to know that it's not our supercaps or the infrastructure of a particular region that's most important: it's your friends. You can turn anywhere into home as long as you keep your friends. Keep playing together, keep enjoying spaceships, keep helping each other out and keep trying to find new ways to be better at whatever it is you like to do. That's all that matters in this game.
Alot
When the goons were kicked out of delve, the first major offensive I recall them making (in a publicised way) was to attack some folks after Test decided to attack the same folks from a different direction. Test said there was no collaboration and I believe goons said the same and that "this was the new way of doing things". The effort ended a few days later when Test pulled out stating "It was weird ".
I assume the goons and test are now officially friends with benefits?
Yoshi Tadaruwa
It does appear that the north is finally being broken apart. A lot thought that the DRF was the invisible player in the NE but they have melted away. One thing I would like to point out to both fans of Fam and Goons/Legacy, do not forget about Fraternity and its Winter Coalition. As more move from the Chinese server to here, they will be a power to be reckoned with. We will have a superpower in Goon/Legacy, but they may splinter. We still have Frat sitting on the sidelines of the Northern War between Fam and GL, but they are still involved with TEST as things remain volitile on their boarders. The North may be lost, but it is not going to be "One ring to rule them all…" as Frat and the Winter Coalition are still very much alive and will be kicking on if not down doors in the near future.
The Stalemate of the North vs the South has finally been overcome but look to the East for the next big move. It may not be this winter, but I fear it will come within the next year.
Ted W. Ott Yoshi Tadaruwa
2 years on, this post proved to be very relevant today in 2020
concerned whiteman
its not casino money that is the issue . ITS THERE TOTAL attitude of were elite pvp **** industry . This is what has cost them this war. Instead of trying to maintain the whole were nomadic pvp and we hate carebears sealed there fate. They should have used the supercap umbrella to promote rorqual and moon mining . The amount of craps they could get if they did that with premium space from tribute to tenal would have put them on par with the Goons. Instead the whole elite pvp attitude has seen many corps wither and die in NCDOT. HIFI a corp i use to belong to being one of them. Now they pay the reaper for there lack of understanding of the new meta. I ll give horde this if they can continue to increase there industry and upgrade there supercap umbrella by taking in NC/ PL Corps they could become the perfect counter to goons. They just have to adpot a Krap attitude to getting there line members rich enough where they can afford 3,4 pew supers and ratting ships such as carriers can be welped without issue
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The Russian defense ministry seems to have decided to start saving. According to several sources of Interfax, they are going to abandon the purchase of new attack helicopters Mi-28NM "Night Hunter" because of their too high price. Allegedly, the military for a long time tried to reduce the final cost of the production machine Mi-28NM, but in the holding "Helicopters of Russia" did not go for it.
What is really behind this decision, "MK" on condition of anonymity told a source in the aviation industry.
According to some reports, when the helicopter builders and the military could not agree on the final price of the Mi-28NM batch, it was decided instead of buying new helicopters to upgrade the old Mi-28. And besides, think about increasing purchases of Ka-52 helicopters.
And here, when the name of the Ka-52 car, a helicopter created at the company, Kamov, a longtime competitor of the Mil company, which created the Mi helicopters, pops up, some things start to fall into place.
Traditionally, both design schools, the Kamov Design Bureau and the Mile Design Bureau, have been producing excellent, world-wide recognized machines for more than half a century. Kamov's firm was mainly focused on carrier-based aircraft. Firm Mile made more traditional helicopters for army aviation. And all these years, since the creation of both design schools, there is fierce competition between them. It remained today, despite the fact that they are now merged into a single holding, Russian Helicopters.
And as soon as the Ka-50 (the predecessor of the Ka-52) and the Mi-28 helicopters appeared, they immediately descended into fierce competition. The machines were thought back in Soviet times as a result of a military helicopter competition announced by the military. For almost 10 years, army aviation could not decide what to buy. As a result, they made a "Solomon's decision" – to buy both.
We do not think that such an approach to the program of creating combat helicopters is very costly. The presence of two types of helicopters in the fleet of army aviation extremely increases the cost of their operation. It seems that today we continue to compete not with a foreign manufacturer, but with each other. And this interferes with the cause.
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