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Guilhaumon, F., Albouy, C., Claudet, J., Velez, L., Ben Rais Lasram, F., Tomasini, J. - A., et al. (2015). Representing taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity: new challenges for Mediterranean marine-protected areas. Diversity Distrib., 21(2), 175–187.
Résumé: Aim To assess gaps in the representation of taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity among coastal fishes in Mediterranean marine-protected areas (MPAs). Location Mediterranean Sea. Methods We first assessed gaps in the taxonomic representation of the 340 coastal fish species in Mediterranean MPAs, with representation targets (the species range proportion to be covered by MPAs) set to be inversely proportional to species' range sizes. We then asked whether MPAs favoured representation of phylogenetically and functionally more distinct species or whether there was a tendency to favour less distinctive ones. We finally evaluated the overall conservation effectiveness of the MPAs using a metric that integrates species' phylogenetic and functional relationships and targets achievement. The effectiveness of the MPA system at protecting biodiversity was assessed by comparison of its achievements against a null model obtained by siting current MPAs at random over the study area. Results Among the coastal fish species analysed, 16 species were not covered by any MPA. All the remaining species only partially achieved the pre-defined representation target. The current MPA system missed fewer species than expected from siting MPAs at random. However, c. 70% of the species did not achieve better protection in the current MPAs than expected from siting MPAs at random. Functional and evolutionary distinctiveness were weakly correlated with target achievement. The observed coverage of taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional diversity was not different or lower than expected from siting MPAs at random. Main conclusions The Mediterranean MPA system falls short in meeting conservation targets for coastal fish taxonomic diversity, phylogenetic diversity and functional diversity. Mediterranean MPAs do not encompass more biodiversity than expected by chance. This study reveals multiple ongoing challenges and calls for regional collaboration for the extension of the Mediterranean system of MPAs to meet international commitments and reduce the ongoing loss of marine biodiversity.
Mots-Clés: Functional diversity; Gap analysis; marine-protected area; Mediterranean fishes; phylogenetic diversity; reserves; taxonomic diversity
Hadjadji, I., Masseret, E., Plisson, B., Laabir, M., Cecchi, P., & Collos, Y. (2012). Clonal variation in physiological parameters of Alexandrium tamarense: implications for biological invasions and maintenance. Cah. Biol. Mar., 53(3), 357–363.
Résumé: The study of the intraspecific variability is a crucial step for understanding the successful establishment and maintenance of invasive species. Alexandrium tamarense strains isolated in spring 2007 from a single bloom in Thau lagoon have been grown on three different media (ESNW based on natural seawater, and the artificial media, ESAW, ESAW+HA). A large diversity in the ability of strains to grow on these media was found. Irrespective of medium composition, growth curves followed three models: (1) a classical shape, (2) a population crash followed in some cases (3) by growth recovery. Some strains were able to show significant growth in an environment completely artificial (ESAW). ANOVA indicated a significant difference between groups in growth rates allowing the distinction of contrasted categories among the strains studied in ESNW medium. These statistical tests also indicated the presence of distinct groups among the strains grown in the ESAW as well as for those on ESAW+HA medium. Lag phases were extremely variable between strains in all environments, suggesting a high variability of adaptation to the environment. The results revealed that wide fitness variations were exhibited by diverse conspecific A. tamarense individuals co-existing during a bloom.
Mots-Clés: Alexandrium tamarense; Fitness; Growth rate; Humic acid; Intraspecific variability; Lag phase; blooms; catenella; complex dinophyceae; dinoflagellate; dinophyceae; growth; humic substances; marine-phytoplankton; southern france; thau lagoon; urea uptake
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Heymans, J. J., Coll, M., Link, J. S., Mackinson, S., Steenbeek, J., Walters, C., et al. (2016). Best practice in Ecopath with Ecosim food-web models for ecosystem-based management. Ecol. Model., 331, 173–184.
Résumé: Ecopath with Ecosim (EwE) models are easier to construct and use compared to most other ecosystem modelling techniques and are therefore more widely used by more scientists and managers. This, however, creates a problem with quality assurance; to address this we provide an overview of best practices for creating Ecopath, models. We describe the diagnostics that can be used to check for thermodynamic and ecological principles, and highlight principles that should be used for balancing a model. We then highlight the pitfalls when comparing Ecopath models using Ecological Network Analysis indices. For dynamic simulations in Ecosim we show the state of the art in calibrating the model by fitting it to time series using a formal fitting procedure and statistical goodness of fit. Finally, we show how Monte Carlo simulations can be used to address uncertainty in input parameters, and we discuss the use of models in a management context, specifically using the concept of 'key runs' for ecosystem-based management. This novel list of best practices for EwE models will enable ecosystem managers to evaluate the goodness of fit of the given EwE model to the ecosystem management question. (C) 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.
Mots-Clés: benguela ecosystem; dynamics; Ecological network analysis; Ecopath with Ecosim; Ecosystem-based management; Ecosystem modelling; exploited ecosystems; impacts; indicators; marine ecosystems; Monte Carlo; network analysis; nw mediterranean sea; shelf ecosystem; southern benguela; Time series fitting
Jaquemet, S., Ternon, J. - F., Kaehler, S., Thiebot, J. B., Dyer, B., Bemanaja, E., et al. (2014). Contrasted structuring effects of mesoscale features on the seabird community in the Mozambique Channel. Deep-Sea Research Part II.Topical Studies in Oceanography, 100(No spécial), 200–211.
Résumé: The Mozambique Channel (western Indian Ocean) is a dynamic environment characterised by strong mesoscale features, which influence all biological components of the pelagic ecosystem. We investigated the distribution, abundance and feeding behaviour of seabirds in the Mozambique Channel in relation to physical and biological environmental variables, with a specific interest in mesoscale features. Seabird censuses were conducted in summer and winter during 7 cruises in the southern and northern Mozambique Channel. Tropical species accounted for 49% of the 37 species identified and 97% of the individuals, and species from the sub-Antarctic region constituted 30% of the identifications. The typically tropical sooty tern (Onychoprion fuscata) was the dominant species during all cruises, and overall accounted for 74% of the species observations and 85% of counted birds. Outputs of Generalised Linear Models at the scale of the Mozambique Channel suggested that higher densities of flying and feeding birds occurred in areas with lower sea surface temperatures and lower surface chlorophyll a concentrations. Most of the flocks of feeding birds did not associate with surface schools of fish or marine mammals, but when they did, these flocks were larger, especially when associated with tuna. While tropical species seemed to favour cyclonic eddies, frontal and divergence zones, non-tropical species were more frequently recorded over shelf waters. Sooty terns foraged preferentially in cyclonic eddies where zooplankton, micronelcton and tuna schools were abundant. Among other major tropical species, frigatebirds (Fregata spp.) predominated in frontal zones between eddies, where tuna schools also frequently occurred and where geostrophic currents were the strongest. Red-footed boobies (Sula sub) concentrated in divergence zones characterised by low sea level anomalies, low geostrophic currents, and high zooplanlcton biomass close to the surface. Our results highlight the importance of mescoscale features in structuring the tropical seabird community in the Mozambique Channel, in addition to segregating tropical and non-tropical species. The mechanisms underlying the segregation of tropical seabirds seem to partially differ from that of other tropical regions, and this may be a consequence of the strong local mesoscale activity, affecting prey size and availability schemes. Beyond characterising the foraging habitats of the seabird community of the Mozambique Channel, this study highlights the importance of this region as a hot spot for seabirds; especially the southern part, where several endangered sub-Antarctic species over-winter.
Mots-Clés: Foraging habitats; Frigatebird; Marine productivity; Mesoscale eddies; Red-footed booby; Sooty tern; Tropical marine predators; Tuna; Western Indian Ocean
Jaspers, C., Huwer, B., Antajan, E., Hosia, A., Hinrichsen, H. - H., Biastoch, A., et al. (2018). Ocean current connectivity propelling the secondary spread of a marine invasive comb jelly across western Eurasia. Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr., 27(7), 814–827.
Résumé: Aim: Invasive species are of increasing global concern. Nevertheless, the mechanisms driving further distribution after the initial establishment of non-native species remain largely unresolved, especially in marine systems. Ocean currents can be a major driver governing range occupancy, but this has not been accounted for in most invasion ecology studies so far. We investigate how well initial establishment areas are interconnected to later occupancy regions to test for the potential role of ocean currents driving secondary spread dynamics in order to infer invasion corridors and the source-sink dynamics of a non-native holoplanktonic biological probe species on a continental scale. Location: Western Eurasia. Time period: 1980s-2016. Major taxa studied: 'Comb jelly' Mnemiopsis leidyi. Methods: Based on 12,400 geo-referenced occurrence data, we reconstruct the invasion history of M. leidyi in western Eurasia. We model ocean currents and calculate their stability to match the temporal and spatial spread dynamics with large-scale connectivity patterns via ocean currents. Additionally, genetic markers are used to test the predicted connectivity between subpopulations. Results: Ocean currents can explain secondary spread dynamics, matching observed range expansions and the timing of first occurrence of our holoplanktonic non-native biological probe species, leading to invasion corridors in western Eurasia. In northern Europe, regional extinctions after cold winters were followed by rapid recolonizations at a speed of up to 2,000 km per season. Source areas hosting year-round populations in highly interconnected regions can re-seed genotypes over large distances after local extinctions. Main conclusions: Although the release of ballast water from container ships may contribute to the dispersal of non-native species, our results highlight the importance of ocean currents driving secondary spread dynamics. Highly interconnected areas hosting invasive species are crucial for secondary spread dynamics on a continental scale. Invasion risk assessments should consider large-scale connectivity patterns and the potential source regions of non-native marine species.
Mots-Clés: abundance; biodiversity; biological invasions; black-sea; caspian sea; consequences; ctenophore mnemiopsis-leidyi; gelatinous zooplankton; invasion corridors; invasive species; jellyfish; larval transport; marine connectivity; Mnemiopsis leidyi; north-sea; range expansion; source populations; source-sink dynamics; waters; zooplankton


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Warning: is oil the new gold?
Anyone watching oil prices right now has got to be asking his/herself the question, is the future of oil prices going to fall to the Dumber Guy Rule? That's the investing rule that governs the market price of assets that don't produce anything, don't manufacture anything, don't create any new technologies or processes, don't create any revenue or profit, and don't pay investors any interest or dividends. It's the rule where you can't value investments using the usual business and investment valuation models to determine current and future market prices. You know, the same rule that brought down the price of gold. Remember?
In a previous article (Gold: Should You or Shouldn't you?), we outlined how the gold price is determined mainly by the amounts of money investors pour into investments like exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that invest directly in gold. By examining the investment demand for gold, it was easy to see how money-flows from investors influenced gold's trading price – on the way up and now on the way down!
So, given the tale of gold prices and the Dumber Guy Rule, you got to wonder if oil prices are going to go the same way. Will oil investors be just like those investors that bought into the gold story (where they believed the story sold to them by the investment industry that gold prices were going to rise as central banks juiced financial markets with their money-printing, triggering a new wave of inflation!)? That's the question!
Every investment needs a story!
It's true. After all, when it comes to investment ideas, the investment pros understand they are selling a concept (not a good or service), and the best way to sell an idea is with a great story.
Oil investors have bought into the oil story (hook, line and sinker!). The oil story, for those of you not familiar with it, goes like this: oil's market price is all about Peak Oil's diminishing supply in the face of the growing demand out of emerging markets (China et al). This diminishing-supply-vs.-growing-demand story helped the investment pros sell the concept of oil as an investment. And as with the gold story, the oil's story sounds like a plausible, fact-based theory explaining the increase in oil's market price over the past decade.
But maybe we should take a brief look at how the oil story really developed.
For more than 100 years the basic premise for buying and selling oil remained the same where buyers and sellers would make a legal agreement to take, or to make, delivery of a pre-specified quantity and quality of oil on a set date at set location. The agreement was always for the physical delivery of oil where the buyers had to physically receive barrels of oil and the sellers had to physically deliver barrels of oil. This simple physical-settlement characteristic pretty much meant that only producers and consumers traded in oil. In other words, investors and speculators who were not able to deliver or receive physical barrels of oil were pretty much left out of the oil market. However, all this began to change with the oil crises in the 1970s and when technical market innovations changed how oil was traded.
The 1970s transformed the industry forever. Oil trading based upon a physical delivery/settlement model enabled large oil producing countries to restrict oil shipments. The physical delivery/settlement meant producing countries could hold consuming countries hostage leading to two oil-price shocks and price volatility became a new feature of the market. This new volatility created the need for oil producers and consumers to hedge future oil prices, and in response oil traders created a short-term physical trading market for the buying and selling of oil.
New oil market: bigger, faster, better?
In 1980 the International Petroleum Exchange (IPE), now called the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), created the first cash-settlement contract and from 1981 to 2001, oil traders were able to buy and sell oil without the risk of having to make physical delivery/settlement. As a result of this change from physical-settlement to cash-settlement and the eventual adoption of electronic trading in 2006, trading volume in oil skyrocketed. For example, NYMEX crude oil's average daily trading volume was 107,579 contracts in 1988, 254,162 contracts in 1998 and 1,173,548 in 2008, with most of the jump coming after 2006, as a result of cash-settlement and electronic trading.
But the rapid expansion in oil trading is not just a result of the shift to cash-settlement and technical trading changes; it's also a direct result of an increase in demand – both real and investor created.
In a 2008 testimony before the U.S. Senate, it was reported that between 2003 and 2008 investors' trading in oil increased by 848 million barrels. According to the U.S. Department Of Energy, between 2003 and 2008, annual Chinese demand for petroleum increased from 1.88 billion barrels to 2.8 billion barrels, an increase of 920 million barrels. So investor demand for oil was almost equal to the increased demand from China.
Oil is not alone in this surge in demand from investors. The switch to cash-settlement and electronic trading spread like wildfire to every other commodity (gold, copper, natural gas, etc.), and almost overnight demand from investors surged.
The chart below shows how investor demand for commodity ETFs strategies rose from $13 billion at the end of 2003 to $260 billion as of March 2008, and how prices for the 25 commodities that compose these indices increased by an average of 183% in those five years!
The chart below shows this dynamic at work in the overall commodities market. Note how as investor money pours into the markets, two things happen concurrently: the markets expand and prices rise.
Wow, right? So, with that new cash-settlement and electronic trading system, oil trading jumped, and still keeps on increasing!
But something else also happened in 2006 at this point. By creating a cash-settlement option for oil traders and shifting to an electronic trading platform, a whole new demand for oil was created – i.e. investors like you and me!
Prior to 2006 there was no convenient and easy method for the average investor to invest savings directly in oil – or any commodity for that matter. In fact, 2006 not only marks the year oil began trading electronically, it also marks the year the first ETFs were created for the sole purpose of investing in commodities – oil, gold, wheat, sliver, etc. Prior to this, investors could buy mutual funds that invested in companies that operated within the oil industry, but we couldn't invest directly in the price movements for oil itself.
From 2006 onward, as the number of commodity ETFs expanded, investors were told by the investment industry they must diversify their investments. No longer was it acceptable to only own stocks and bonds when you could invest your savings directly in things like oil, natural gas, copper, silver, gold, wheat, pork belly, orange juice, etc. Investment diversification became the call to action for investors to start buying oil ETFs. And buy we did!
So, what's going to happen with all of us buying so much oil? Well, if the history of investing in gold can teach us anything, maybe we all need to sit up and take note.
We'll take a look at that can of worms in our next article.
Read the next article in the series - Oil's market price today: where do you want to sit as an investor?


Mrs.Wood '94 mix@ FF club London..
pricey but nice track.. is lady Chatterly miss Woods ?
... is lady Chatterly miss Woods ?
No, it's not Mrs Wood.
Yeah agreed it's not Mrs Wood it's some German artist.
It's on Billy Nasty's Essential Mix from May 1994. Probably my favourite ever Essential Mix, well worth checking out if you're not familiar with it.


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This is a balun originally designed by Guanella and subsequently improved by Dr. Jerry Sevick (W2FMI). By utilizing Thermaleze wire inserted in teflon tubes, Dr. Sevick was able to substantially increase the breakdown voltage between both conductors while maintaining the required 100 ohm characteristic impedance for the wire pair used for the windings.
The result is a current balun that will handle moderate power from 1.5 to 54 MHz. It's a good choice to transform ladder line fed multiband doublets and cobra designs to coax and to build an economical Off Center Fed dipole around. Note: This 4:1 current balun is not the type used for an Original Windom which has a vertical coaxial radiator with a choke balun at the end. The model 4125 should be used at the center of an original windom design.
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Core is coated and sealed for long term durability.
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Power Rating 1 to 35 MHz - 3kW, 35 to 54 MHz - 2kW.
All ratings based on resonant load. High SWR will reduce power handling ability.
Connectors SO-239 connectors are silver plated with Teflon insulation.
Enclosure Type NEMA rated 4x marine grade junction box for outdoor installations.


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Home > Starcraft: Cartooned > The Starcraft: The Saturday Morning Cartoon Edition is a fun new look at a classic
The Starcraft: The Saturday Morning Cartoon Edition is a fun new look at a classic
Review by Nick H.
Blizzard is showing a willingness to take some chances with its established properties, and while your mileage on how much you enjoy or look forward to them may vary, I am happy to see them happening. For example, from the moment World of Warcraft Classic (or Vanilla WoW) was announced, that was something I could get behind. I appreciate the quality of life improvements the series has made over the years, and the oodles of extra content available along the way as well. However, a part of me has always missed 'what used to be', whether it was World Dragons, the ability to dig deeper into my character stats when leveling up traits, or how getting to certain levels actually felt like an accomplishment.
The recently released Starcraft: Cartooned is another interesting addition to Blizzard's storied stable of titles. It is a purely cosmetic mod, but that this is an official Blizzard one certainly makes it notable. Years ago I had friends who readily modded games like Warcraft III and it was a lot of fun. Sure, it was sometimes a little buggy and it was not officially supported so if something went wrong, it was not like you could ring up their technical support teams for help, but it was always a fun way to put a fresh spin on an established property, and this feels very much like that creative spirit... only this time it's an official effort.
Well, as far as Blizzard games go, properties don't get much more established than its venerable Starcraft game. When the company re-released the original game as the updated Starcraft Remastered back in the summer of 2017, fans and critics alike were thrilled to experience the title again with updated visuals and sound effects. The core game has withstood the test of time and still enjoys a healthy competitive scene, so there was not much need to change most of what was under the hood except perhaps more modernised online options.
This new DLC might be seen as a bit superfluous in that it also does not change anything about the tried and true core gameplay, but it does entirely update the visuals. In terms of the style, if you are familiar with Jonathan Burton of YouTube fame (his channel is called Carbot Animations), then you have a pretty good idea what to expect here. Bright, colourful, rounded... pretty much everything that the gritty science-fiction world of Starcraft has never been in the past. Being in my 40's now, this just really reminds me of the kinds of cartoons I used to get up early in the morning to watch every Saturday morning, which is pretty cool as it adds a layer of nostalgia to the existing nostalgia of playing the original Starcraft. Just about everything in the game has been completely redrawn and reanimated.
Now it is worth noting that you do need the Starcraft Remastered in order to purchase and use this Cartooned expansion. One thing that I thought was very cool is you can still play online against other people, even if they do not have the pack. So there was none of that competitive online stuff where the user base has gotten segmented based on what DLC packs you have purchased along the way, which was nice to see. For some people the clearer, cleaner, brighter visuals might even help give them an edge in comparison to the darker and sometimes muddy Starcraft.
Is the upgrade worth your money? My guess is if you bought Remastered in the first place (after all, you can get the original standard definition version of the game and play it for free), this kind of visual update will probably be of more interest to you. But it really is one layer of superficial over another, and purely there for people that simply enjoy Starcraft that much.
Overall though, I have to say that the visual update - while just a bit jarring at first - is pretty impressive. A ridiculous amount of work from updated UI to all-new animations is evident from the very beginning. Despite the story and everything else remaining the same, it certainly just felt different to be staring at a screen with all of these bright colours and less jagged, linear edges. If nothing else, it certainly is distinctive, especially when compared to a lot of other titles in the RTS sci-fi genre. It will be interesting to see what the reception is like and if it will be positive enough to prompt other alternate skins in the future.
- Nick H.

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Gulf of Aden
Roadside Bomb Kills Soldier In Somalia's Puntland
By Matt Roberts on March 28, 2017
At least one soldier has been killed, and another was wounded, after a roadside bomb exploded in the semi-autonomous Puntland region of Somalia.
Suicide Bombers Kill 10 In Yemen
By Matt Roberts on July 18, 2016
At least 10 people have been killed, following attacks by two suicide bombers, on two military checkpoints, in Yemen.


Authored by jgrulich on Mar 2 2018, 10:42 AM.
jgrulich added a subscriber: Plasma.
Hi Jan, I'll take a look in the evening once I'm home.
jgrulich added dependencies: D1231: Add Remote Access interface to KWayland, D1230: GBM remote access support for KWin.
Is this code actually reachable?
We can use QTimer::singleShot here, no?
Some methods have first letter upper-case, some not, why?
This is not a list ,this is a map. The variable name is confusing.
I'd wrap some pipewire structures into some kind of PipewirePointer like WaylandPointer in KWayland does. But maybe I'm too picky, overall this stuff looks really good!
See . We are supposed to reimplement this interface and these methods are defined by xdg-desktop-portal so we have to follow their naming.
I'll push it once your GBM stuff is merged, thank you for your review.
With self-compiled Pipewire 0.1.9 I needed this to be <spa/lib/pod.h>.
Weird it wasn't pushed, I had that module file locally since the beginning.
Both required reviews for GBM stuff have been already merged, can we proceed with this one? If there are no objections I will push it.
From me there are no objections. I haven't looked in detail through the code.
I could compile, but not test it because according to our last discussion the official Ubuntu xdp PPA isn't compiled with Pipewire support. So if this diff lands it would be good if Pipewire support in the PPA follows swiftly so people on Kubuntu/Neon can test it this way and we don't get needless bug reports.
If there are no objections I will move forward with this review.


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Bear vs. Tiger (fight video)
MMA_Playwright March 3, 2018, 1:48pm #1
stevosmith March 3, 2018, 2:36pm #2
yea tiger had more cardio
Bear had more heart
John_Travoltage March 3, 2018, 2:58pm #4
Pratty March 3, 2018, 3:01pm #5
Don't fuck with a momma bear
Fury2Feed March 3, 2018, 3:16pm #6
I love watching animals scrap. Cats are tremendous grapplers.
bruised March 3, 2018, 3:23pm #7
That was awesome and much more balanced than I expected.
Siciliano March 3, 2018, 3:27pm #8
Awesome music.
nottheface March 3, 2018, 3:29pm #9
Baloo was game
Mynewscreenname March 3, 2018, 3:32pm #10
I know they were just playing. But after watching that I can't imagine a tiger ever defeating a big brown bear.
Grizzly for the win
Kings21 March 3, 2018, 3:39pm #11
II feel like that tiger didnt know wtf to do.
Me_Calf_Ariel March 3, 2018, 3:45pm #12
They were just playing, not fighting.
This is what a real fight looks like...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9KmqL9EIM4
Kamikaze_Emu March 3, 2018, 3:50pm #13
That was a small bear. I'd like to see that cat take on a game grizzly.
scrapdo March 3, 2018, 3:57pm #14
Mynewscreenname -
This. If a sloth bear can hold its own against a full grown tiger, a Costal Brown would have a big lunch.
sicko March 3, 2018, 4:29pm #15
Subbed for later
TexDeuce March 3, 2018, 4:55pm #16
Yeah no tiger is fucking with a grizzly. That was a small bear in the vid. I saw another video of a bigger bear against a tiger and it had the tiger pinned the whole time. The bear was on top and dominating. Finally the tiger ran off.
vincan469 March 3, 2018, 5:29pm #17
TexDeuce -
Yeah no tiger is fucking with a grizzly. That was a small bear in the vid. I saw another video of a bigger bear against a tiger and it had the tiger pinned the whole time. Finally the tiger ran off.
was it done tastefully and did the bear finish?
In_Limbo March 3, 2018, 5:35pm #18
up until i saw this video, i always picked the Tiger over any other land predator in the world
now i think a grizzly bear destroys a tiger
and a silverback gorilla would def embarrass a tiger
boy was i wrong the entire time
ImOldGreg March 3, 2018, 7:26pm #19
Low T Low IQ -
Maybe so. Bu I'm sure animals match up differently with one another. While a grizzly may be king, some other animal might just match up with it better than a tiger.
im high and this
is tripping me out
sgotwalks March 3, 2018, 7:35pm #20
Now I'm convinced that Grizzly Man would enter the jungles Bangladesh and have all the tigers eating out of the palm of his hand like it was child's play.


If you love Oriental cooking, you must have this sauce in your larder! The Schezuan Sauce is a common addition to several Chinese recipes including noodle and vegetable preparations. It can be made quite easily with readily available ingredients, and by preparing at home you can rest assured that no unnecessary chemicals have been added to it for preservation, flavour enhancement, etc.3.5 minutes.
Boil 1 cup of water in a deep non-stick pan, add the dry red chillies and garlic, mix well and cook on a medium flame for 5 to 7 minutes, while stirring occasionally. Keep aside to cool.
Blend in a mixer to a smooth paste using approx. 1 tbsp of water. Keep aside.
Heat the oil in a broad non-stick pan, add the garlic, green chillies, ginger, onions and sauté on a medium flame for 1 minute.
Add the prepared chilli-garlic paste, and ½ cup of water, mix well and cook on a medium flame for 1 more minute, while stirring occasionally.
Add the cornflour–water mixture, vinegar, sugar and salt, mix well and cook on a medium flame for 1 to 2 minutes, while stirring continuously.
Cool completely and keep refrigerated.


On average, one person dies on New Zealand's roads every single day - a statistic that amounted to 380 people losing their lives last year.
That's 380 Kiwis who didn't make it to see Christmas this year.
Police Minister Stuart Nash said the main contributing factors were speed, not wearing a seatbelt, distractions like cellphone use and impairments such as drugs, alcohol and fatigue.
"If you engage in any of these sorts of behaviours, you minimise the odds of getting where you want to be safely," Mr Nash told Newshub.
A breakdown of the deaths shows two-thirds were male. Nearly a third were over 60 years old and nearly 50 percent of crashes happened on state highways.
The region where the highest number of fatal crashes occurred was Waikato, followed by Auckland and Canterbury.
Road safety campaigner Clive Matthew Wilson told Newshub it shows the safety campaigns aren't working.
"Multiple studies over 30 years have shown it's an absolute waste of time to ask people to drive safely as everyone thinks they drive safely already," he said.
The Government has committed $1.4 billion over the next three years to making safety improvements to high risk roads.
Mr Wilson said it's urgently needed if the road toll is to come down.
"According to a study by Monash University in Australia we could be reducing the road toll 90 percent by nothing more than road side fencing and median barriers on all our major roads," he said.
It's an expensive undertaking that could be a solution to the problem that's costing hundreds of lives each year.


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Nationwide Irish cultural festival announced by Creative Ireland for Easter
The Cruinniú na Cásca festival will take place on Easter Monday for the next five years, with 31 local authorities across the nation hosting special free cultural, fun initiatives.
IrishCentral Staff
The Cruinniú na Cásca festival will take place every Easter Monday for the next five years, with 31 local authorities across the nation hosting special free Cruinniú na Cásca initiatives. Ireland.ie
Monday, April 17 marks the official launch at Dublin Castle of Cruinniú na Cásca, a new, large-scale, free, fun family festival that invites members of the public across the country to join in a spirited celebration of contemporary Irish life, multiculturalism, and creativity. You can find listings to all the events going on around the country here, Cruinniu.rte.ie.
Presented by RTÉ as part of the Creative Ireland Programme, Cruinniú na Cásca, which translates directly as 'a meeting at Easter', will see the streets and public spaces of our nation's cities, towns and villages come to life with an enormous range of live music and dance, theatre, art and coding workshops, talks and tastings, readings and screenings, special events and more.
The festival will take place every Easter Monday for the next five years, with 31 local authorities across the nation hosting special free Cruinniú na Cásca initiatives, with a distinct focus on events for families and children. It's the perfect opportunity to get together for a new way to celebrate Easter Monday.
With new events being added daily to this year's programs throughout Ireland, be sure to visit RTÉ Cruinniú na Cásca online to find out what's happening in your area.
Stroll the streets of Cork City, where you can brush up on your cúpla focal by joining a local history walking tour, courtesy of St. Peter's, before stopping at the Triskel Arts Centre for a late afternoon screening of Song of the Sea. Or why not wander up to historic Elizabeth Fort for unmatched views of the city below and a guided tour, to boot?
The county of Cork itself will be a hive of activity for Crinniú na Cásca, with a wonderful range of activities across each of its eight municipal districts, while in Galway City, you can help round off the fabulous Galway Food Festival by sharing a nibble at the public Breaking Bread Event.
The community craic will be mighty in Clare, where glór has designed a cultural program of activities for all the family, and in Kerry, too, where the Lúmina light, art, and music event in Dingle will stimulate your senses.
In the capital, four designated zones across Dublin city centre will provide a dazzling array of activities and entertainment, from Smithfield Square (Zone 1) and Custom House Quay (Zone 4) on Dublin's north side to St. Stephen's Green (Zone 3) and Dublin Castle (Zone 2) to the south. Revelers can enjoy live music, workshops and demonstrations, poetry and dance performances, film screenings, talks, crafts and much more, and RTÉ will be there to broadcast live from all four zones throughout the day on RTÉ Radio 1, RTÉ 2fm and RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta.
Sligo and Donegal will each be serving up fun-filled days out, with traditional music, children's activities, arts and crafts and guided tours aplenty, including a spine-tingling performance by Crash Ensemble and Adrian Crowley of the latter's latest work The Dead Hotel. You can also take part in a moving exploration of The Children of Lir, where you will be invited to help forge a new vision of Ireland in the 21st century.
As the day draws to a close, festival-goers in Abbeyshrule, County Longford will enjoy an evocative ceremony of lights and music at the historic 12th-century Cistercian Abbey, surely the most magical place to be to cap off this nationwide day of festivities.
These activities are just a sampling of the rich variety of events taking place across Ireland for the inaugural Cruinniú na Cásca Festival. Why not get together and dance, eat, sing and play, for free, and make this Easter Monday a day to remember?
When: Easter Monday, April 17, 2017 from 11.00am – 6.00pm
Where: Locations nationwide
All events are free, organized courtesy of RTÉ and Creative Ireland, who together seek to capture the unique spirit and creativity of contemporary Ireland. Cooperation for this program is graciously provided by Dublin City Council, the OPW, and Transport for Ireland.
Thousands of tickets will be available to the public for talks, film screenings, autism friendly workshops and coding classes, but it's strongly recommended that you secure your place online in advance as capacity is a regard.
For a full list of events and to book your free tickets, visit RTÉ Cruinniú na Cásca online.
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Rush order for 31,000 smartphones signals return of 'March Madness' budget rush
It's a well-known practice in government circles: 'March Madness' - public servants rushing to spend every last dollar in their budgets before the fiscal year ends. A massive order for 31,000 smartphones last month suggests the spending tactic has returned, after the previous Conservative government banned it.
Liberal government took huge delivery of smartphones last month to spend cash before year-end
Dean Beeby · CBC News · Posted: Apr 26, 2018 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: April 26, 2018
The federal government ordered a rush delivery of 31,000 smartphones last month to ensure payment came out of the 2017-2018 budget - an apparent example of 'March Madness' bureaucratic spending. (Ryan Remiorz/Canadian Press)
Federal bureaucrats scrambled to take delivery of a massive order of smartphones by March 31 of this year in an apparent eruption of 'March Madness' – the practice of shovelling unspent departmental funds out the door before the end of a fiscal year.
On Feb. 20, Shared Services Canada sent an urgent order to Bell Mobility for about 31,000 smartphones, with delivery required within five weeks in order to qualify as 2017-2018 expenditures.
"Bell will bill partners [departments] directly for these orders, and will ship to partners by March 31, 2018," says an internal memo on the rush order.
Normally, Shared Services Canada – the government's IT agency – would order the equipment and pay the bill itself, charging back the amounts to individual departments.
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But the rush order and its large size overwhelmed the agency, which required each department to pay its own bills for the delivered hardware.
CBC News obtained the memo and other information about the bulk purchase through the Access to Information Act.
March Madness is a long-observed phenomenon in Ottawa which sees federal departments quickly spend all of their remaining annual budgets in the last month of the fiscal year to avoid losing the cash altogether in the following budget – a use-it-or-lose-it strategy.
The bonuses paid to some executives in government are also partly dependent on how close to budget they are at year-end, since they're expected to spend all of their budgets in order to fully enact programs and services approved by Parliament.
Conservative MP Tony Clement banned 'March Madness' spending in 2012, when he was Treasury Board president in the government of Stephen Harper. He says the smartphone order shows the practice has returned. (Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press)
The previous Conservative government issued a stern public edict against the practice.
"This type of expenditure — dictated by the fiscal calendar rather than real departmental needs — is something that our government strongly opposes," then-Treasury Board president Tony Clement said in a February 2012 letter that year to his cabinet colleagues.
There is some evidence the warning had an impact: no March spikes in spending were observed in 2013 and 2014.
Twenty-seven departments and agencies participated in the bulk order last month, which was valued at $21.5 million, taking into account a $6 million volume discount from Bell Mobility.
Android devices, such as the Samsung S7 and S8 smartphones, made up about 80 per cent of the order. About 20 per cent was for iOS devices — Apple iPhones. Three departments — Privy Council Office, Industry and SSC — together ordered 1,800 iPhone 8 models.
This thing spreads like wildfire through the whole bureaucracy - Conservative MP and former Treasury Board president Tony Clement, on the phenomenon of March Madness spending by federal departments
The largest departmental order by far was from Global Affairs Canada, with 5,500 devices split evenly between the iPhone7 and the Samsung S7.
Absent from the order were BlackBerrys, once ubiquitous in Ottawa but now disappearing. BlackBerry announced in 2016 the firm would no longer manufacture mobile devices, and Shared Services Canada has been managing the gradual transition to Android and iOS devices, while still supporting the dwindling number of BlackBerrys still in use.
The agency defends the rush order as simply a response to demand.
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"In winter 2018, given the shortage of BlackBerry devices and their anticipated user requirement, more than a dozen federal organizations expressed interest in purchasing new devices to ensure service continuity and to replace broken devices," spokesman Charles Anido said in response to questions from CBC News.
Anido said the final order was larger than the memo indicated: 34,000 devices and accessories, at a final cost of about $23 million.
"This bulk purchase, leveraging Shared Service Canada's enterprise approach to meeting customer needs, resulted in savings of $6.6 million for the Government of Canada," he said in an email.
Shared Services Canada says the bulk order was partly intended to replace BlackBerrys, which are being phased out across government. (Manu Fernandez/Associated Press)
Many of the devices were so-called "open boxes" — the packaging had been opened but the product was new and unused. These items normally can't be sold in retail stores, and so sell at a discounted price.
Clement, Conservative MP for Parry Sound-Muskoka, said the rushed purchase is evidence that March Madness has returned, often to the delight of local Ottawa retailers.
A 'bonanza' for retailers
"This is an ongoing cultural issue in Ottawa where, when March 31 occurs, people use it as an opportunity to access the taxpayers' piggy bank and initiate a bonanza," he said in an interview.
"This thing spreads like wildfire through the whole bureaucracy … They just spend the money because they can."
A Bell spokesman declined to comment on the bulk purchase. "We don't discuss details about any of our government or business contracts," said Nathan Gibson.
Shared Services Canada supports about 230,000 cellular devices, so the March order represents almost 15 per cent of inventory.
It's not clear how widespread March Madness may be in the current Liberal government, which has run a series of deficits since taking office in November 2015.
Finance Minister Bill Morneau's February budget projected an $18.1 billion deficit in the current fiscal year, but the parliamentary budget officer this week estimated the real number would be $22.1 billion.
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"Ms. Chism would like you to know that her son was born in love and is dear to her, very dear."
-Attorney Denise Regan makes a statement on behalf of the mother of 14-year-old Philip Chism, arrested on Oct. 22 for murdering his high school teacher in the bathroom of the school (10/28/13)
POSTED BY: Sydney Slater on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2013
Victoria Fedder
This is an interesting comment. What does a mother do when their child does something so very wrong? They have grown up loving their child unconditionally, and this shows that a lot of times they do not stop.
I think Phillip's mom wanted to let everyone know that she loves and cares for Phillip no matter what, but also wants to show that he did not shoot the teacher because of a lack of love on her part. This produces an extremely interesting dynamic.
Rachel Schmitt
I think this quote is heartbreaking. Even though Phillip has committed a heinous crime, when his mother looks at him she still sees the little boy she has raised and loved unconditionally for fourteen years. How are you supposed to reconcile the fact that the baby you cradled in your arms is the same young man responsible for murder? The phrase "her son was born in love" is perhaps the most emotional part of the quote because it's a grim reminder that sometimes the people you love the most will do terrible things, no matter how much love and support you give them. Ms. Chism wanted to make everyone aware that Phillip's crime was not born from a broken home or years of abuse, but from something else entirely. And while that may serve as some small comfort to her, it's a horrifying thought for the rest of us.
Sophia Lin
In a mother's perspective, they will always love their child no matter what they have done. It is seen by this quote that Ms. Chism was in shock of what her son did and wants the public to know that it also came to a surprise to her as well. She had cared and loved for her son, which would not have led to his crime. As a loving mother of course, she wants to protect her son from the consequences and wants people to know that she taught him right despite his actions.
Meredith Morrow
This comment breaks my heart because I can only imagine the struggle Ms. Chism is going through. What Philip Chism did was horrifying, but a mother's love towards her son is an extremely strong bond. Ms. Chism will always love her son no matter what, even if she is disgusted by what he has done.
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The Advanced Data Collection System (A-DCS), also known as ARGOS, is to provide a worldwide in-situ environmental data collection and Doppler-derived location service with the basic objective of studying and protecting the Earth's environment. The A-DCS is currently jointly operated by NOAA and CNES. However, with the instrument installed on the MetOp series, EUMETSAT will become the third agency to operate the system.
Another important A-DCS application is the tracking of animals using mini- and micro-DCPs (Data Collection Platforms) – this is especially useful in the study of migratory species.
The A-DCS instrument collects and processes data for immediate transmission to the ground and for subsequent transmission from the satellite to high-latitude ground stations at each orbit.
Two global processing and data distribution centres are located in Toulouse, France and Largo, Maryland, USA. They receive and process raw data from EUMETSAT and distribute the processed data to the users.
Environmental platforms transmit data to the Advanced Data Collection System (A-DCS) at a carrier frequency around 401.650 MHz, digital modulation format at 400 bps and 4800 bps. The A-DCS demodulates this signal and determines the carrier frequency and relative time of each transmission. This processing capacity management subsystem optimises the operation of a software equivalent to twelve stand alone Data Recovery Units allowing up to twelve messages to be processed in parallel. The mission data is processed, formatted, and transferred to the satellite for real-time or for later transmission to ground. A dedicated UHF transmitter (TXU) is used to transmit downlink small messages to the users beacons fitted with a UHF receiver. These messages are sent by the users to their beacons or autonomously by the instrument for acknowledging some of the beacon uplink messages.


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In this episode, the VCinema boys are joined in the fourth chair by Dr. John Berra, a film scholar who has authored and edited books covering American Independent and Japanese cinema. Besides talking to us about these publications and a post that he has accepted abroad, John joins us in a discussion and review of Tony Takitani (2004, dir: Jun Ichikawa), a character study adapted from a short story by Haruki Murakami. Also included in this episode is an extended talk about Murakami, his style, works, films both inspired or adapted from his work including the upcoming Norwegian Wood (2010, dir: Anh Hung Tran), Hear the Wind Sing (1980, dir: Kazuki Omori), Starfish Hotel (2006, dir: John Williams), and more.
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Q: BNLearn Bayesian Networks - how is the structure decided? I'm currently playing around with BNLearn on Python, and creating BN's from Pandas datasets. I'm not really sure why/how the package decides on the structure of the BNs it creates; see for example this BN generated from the Titanic dataset:

I got the above from an example on Kaggle, with the relevant code being
# Structure learning
DAG = bn.structure_learning.fit(dfnum, methodtype='hc', root_node='Survived', bw_list_method='nodes', verbose=3)

# Plot
G = bn.plot(DAG)

# Parameter learning
model = bn.parameter_learning.fit(DAG, dfnum, verbose=3);

I would have thought that all variables affect Survived (ie more being a Naive Bayes classifier than a full on BN here). How has this structure been generated, and what difference does this make (in terms of accuracy and applicability) from Naive Bayes?

A: First of all, bnlearn "only" learns Bayesian networks, so the arrows cannot be interpreted as causal directions. The documentation claims that causality "is incorporated in Bayesian graphical models" but that is only true for causal Bayesian graphical models. Bayesian networks are mainly used to describe stochastic dependencies and contain only limited causal information. E.g., if you give a dataset of two dependent binary variables $X$ and $Y$ to bnlearn, it will either return $X\to Y$ or $Y\to X$ independent of whether $X$ caused $Y$ or $Y$ caused $X$, because the causal relation cannot be deduced just from the observations of $X$ and $Y$.
Thus, if you say "I would have thought that all variables affect Survived", referring to the direction of the arrows, then this insinuates that you presume the arrows to indicate causal effect, which is not the case.
Now to your question: "How has this structure been generated?" You have used the method Hillclimbing which is a greedy local method, i.e. it is fast but can lead to wrong results.
Next, the NaiveBayes method: First, note that the documentation says: "Naive Bayes is a special case of Bayesian Model where the only edges in the model are from the feature variables to the dependent variable." If this was true, conditioning on the dependent variable would make all the features dependent. However, the defining property of Naive Bayes is that it is actually the other way around: conditioning on the dependent variable makes all the features independent.
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*If you are interested in causation, don't use bnlearn, but causality software, see e.g. here, here, or here.

*If you are (only) interested in the probabilistic graphical models described by Bayesian networks, then I would rather suggest trying something more trustworthy like the R package bnlearn and friends.

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It all started with a simple question. Why, oh why, did Tasmania's early settlers feel so compelled to transport such a dastardly prickly plant thousands of kilometres from its home in Scotland and plant it in the antipodes?
The symetrical beauty of a thistle flower. Photo by Alan Perkins.
I asked my brother this question while we were toiling away. He waxed lyrical about the beauty of the flower head and the various stages of its growth. I admire his ability to appreciate an invasive weed but I am no romantic about it. A thistle can look equally beautiful in a photo, but a photo does not prick you. A paddock full of thistle photos would be waaaay better than a paddock full of thistle plants in full flower ready to multiply and multiply.
So, dear reader, while I was pulling thistles out of the ground I became inspired to share with you a little something about the beginning of thistles in Tasmania and some of my thistle thoughts.
And this is the important point about the history of thistles in Tasmania. The thistle is the national flower of Scotland. The early settlers suffered from environmental culture shock. It was difficult for them to embrace the antipodean environment after they had been so abruptly and permanently removed from their homes half a world away. The plants, the animals and the topography were so different to those back home. Whether they wanted to or not, the settlers had to adapt to the new environment but where they could they introduced little reminders of their homes they had left behind – hence the thistle. These introduced species were not necessarily ornamental; many were introduced to help the settlers produce the food that they were used to eating. A brief overview of plants introduced to Tasmania during the nineteenth century can be found here.
But besides this attention to the propagation of useful plants at this time, some is also necessary in order to check the ruinous spreading of noxious ones. A few years ago when the Rev. Mr. Knopswood lived at Cottage Green, he happened to have a Scotch thistle in his garden, the seeds of which disseminated themselves along the shore at the Battery, and the plants springing from them were admired and religiously protected by emigrating patriots of old Scotia who approached them. Since that time however they have become so numerous and have spread themselves so widely that almost every field and garden for miles round is more or less infested with them and the purposes of our remark at this time when the winged seeds are on the point of quitting their native pedestals, is to entreat all those who have any interest in fields or gardens, to use some diligence in destroying them.
The Hobart Town Courier, 28/1/1832, p 2.
A beautiful section of the Kaoota Tramway Track.
Thistles continue to be a problem in Tasmania today. Hubble and I went on a bike ride up Kaoota Road to the top of the Kaoota Tramway Track. There they were – thistles! But we didn't let that spoil our journey. The scenery was magnificent, the scent from the trees was fragrant and the calls of a variety of birds filled the soundscape.
The thistle history of Tasmania reminds me of an unexpected conversation I had with the author of 1835, James Boyce, at his stall at Salamanca Market last Saturday. I will be writing more about this in another post but of relevance here is that Boyce noted that the environment has a significant impact on humans and this should be reflected in our historical understanding. Humanity's relationship with the environment works two ways. We make a significant impact on our natural environment, but likewise the natural environment affects our behaviour to a considerable degree. In order to understand our history better we need to understand the impact our environment has had on people in the past.
The Kaoota Tramway Track with Hubble on his bike.
There will be more about the environmental history of Australia on Stumbling Through the Past in 2013. The history of the impact that Australia's environment has had on people since European settlement interests me. I am looking forward to reviewing some Australian environmental histories over the coming year and I'll see what else I can dig up.
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Great post! Equal parts entertaining and educational. I look forward to reading about your talk with James Boyce, and also some more environmental history, an area I am also interested in, but know quite little about.
Thanks Chloe! I reckon that there is a huge vista awaiting those historians embarking on Australian environmental history. I'm looking forward to forward to reading the work that has been done so far.
Oh, you met James Boyce, his 1835 is the best history book I've read in a decade!
I have so much to say about the book I got stuck trying to write a review! However, now I should be able to tackle it.
BTW Do you want to suggest a date for our meetup yet?
Australia's first novelist? That sounds like an interesting biography. I look forward to your review of it.
Thanks … Coming very soon as I finished the book last night.


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A Regents Park Palace?
The Royal Al Thani family already own more of London than the Crown Estate. Now the Qatari royals are planning their own British palace in the capital as well.Plans have been submitted to convert three adjoining prime properties in London's Regent's Park into a single property, set to become the UK's first £200 million home.
Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned one of the three wives of Qatar's former emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, bought the homes for an estimated £120million last year.
The Arab royal, who met the Queen in 2010, has hired architects and lawyers to oversee the transformation of the properties into a single 33,000 sq ft mansion, boasting a spa, heated swimming pool, beauty salon, butler and nanny quarters, a children's floor, games rooms, powder rooms, massage areas, two lifts and a gymnasium.
The Al Thani's also own the Shard, the tallest skyscraper in Europe, Harrods and the Olympic Village.
The 13 bedroom palace will be the London home of Sheikh Hamad's son and Qatar's current emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, 34, who was educated at Harrow and Sandhurst.
When completed, the mansion is expected to be the most valuable residential property in London.
It is likely to be worth more than the most high profile investments of recent times in the capital – including Dudley House on Park Lane, a grade II-listed mansion which was also bought and renovated by Sheikh Hamad, 62, and is valued at £200 million.
It is expected to be worth about double the highest selling residential property in the UK – a penthouse at One Hyde Park in Knightsbridge, which sold in May this year for about £140 million.
The Qatari royal family bought the three properties – 1, 2 and 3 Cornwall Terrace – last year.
The Grade 1 listed buildings were designed and built in the 1820s by Decimus Burton, the protégé of John Nash, the architect who designed Buckingham Palace. It was named after King George IV, whose titles included the Duke of Cornwall.
n its current form, one Cornwall Terrace alone has seven bedrooms, 11 reception rooms, nine bathrooms, a private gym and a garage with number-plate recognition that can accommodate two limousines. The adjoining property – formed by already combining 2 and 3 Cornwall Terrace – has six bedrooms.
Its dining room, restored to its former Regency glory, seats 16.
Extensive works to be done include, structural realignment, part excavation of the lower ground floor, corridors to connect the properties and a 'secret' passage linking the new dining room and study.


Industrial loggers are banned from clear-cutting the boreal forest near Grassy Narrows, leaders of the First Nation have declared in a land sovereignty claim meant to help the community recover from decades of pollution.
There is currently no ongoing industrial logging in the part of the Whiskey Jack Forest that sits in territory Grassy Narrows leaders say is their peoples'.
Though the provincial government has decided who can log and where, the community announced a moratorium in 2007 and there has been no harvesting since the company operating in the area agreed to leave shortly after. Then, in 2017, Ontario's previous government promised no cutting for at least five more years.
Between 1962 and 1970 a Dryden, Ont., paper plant dumped 10 tonnes of mercury, a potent neurotoxin, in the Wabigoon River. The site of the plant, now under different ownership, is upstream from Grassy Narrows. The mercury contaminated the fish and poisoned the people who ate the fish. They developed tremors, loss of muscle co-ordination, slurred speech and tunnel vision, and still suffer today.
Opinion | Is Grassy Narrows poisoning a crime against humanity?
Logging could lead to more mercury being released to the environment, scientists have said, adding toxic insult to injury for a First Nation already devastated by industrial mercury dumping decades ago.
Over the past two years, the Star and scientists have revealed that fish downstream near Grassy Narrows remain the most contaminated in the province, that there is mercury-contaminated soil and river sediment at or near the site of the old mill, and the provincial government knew in the 1990s that mercury was visible in soil under that site and never told anyone in Grassy Narrows or nearby Wabaseemoong (Whitedog) Independent Nations.
Scientists strongly suspect that old mercury still contaminates the mill site and is polluting the river.
Clear-cut logging threatens to add another source of mercury to the water. Here's how it happens: Mercury gets released into the atmosphere from coal-fired power plants and incinerators and later rains down in forests where it gets trapped in the soil. When a forested area is clear-cut (a large number of trees in one area are uniformly cut down), mercury can run off into lakes and rivers, where its potency gets magnified in aquatic life and travels up the food chain.
Since 2002, some Grassy Narrows members have maintained a blockade of a main road that prevents industrial access to woodlots near their community.
Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde was in the community north of Kenora Tuesday and signed the declaration as a witness.
Top environment ministry officials had serious concerns about a plan to clear-cut near Grassy Narrows, the Star has previously reported.
"Yes, logging introduces Hg (mercury)!" one scientist wrote to a colleague in an internal email. In another email, the former director of the branch that oversees scientists charged with monitoring Ontario's environment observed that "no one is tracking the downstream implications" of the province's logging plan.
A logging, or forest management, plan determines how much and where tree harvesting can occur, where roads can be built and how much forest will be renewed. The plan is renewed every 10 years after consultations with stakeholders.
Despite the worries of environment officials, the ministry in 2014 rejected a request by Grassy Narrows for an environmental assessment of the potential impact of the 10-year logging plan in effect then. Grassy Narrows lawyers asked for a judicial review of the ministry's rejection and the plan itself but then suspended their court fight when former natural resources and forestry minister Kathryn McGarry said there would be no logging in that area for the remaining five years of the plan.
Next year the provincial government is scheduled to begin discussions for the 2022-2032 plan, according to a 2017 letter from the provincial government to Grassy Narrows.
Meanwhile, more than four decades after mercury was dumped by the mill upstream, the physical and mental health of the people in Grassy Narrows is by many key measures "considerably worse" than that of other First Nations in Canada, according to a landmark government-funded survey that was released earlier this year.
While what Grassy Narrows is declaring "could at first glance seem like a radical demand — asserting their sovereignty over their traditional territories" — it is a reasonable and necessary step to take given the "more than half-century of neglect and destruction of their environment ... as a result of failure of governments to respect their rights," said Craig Benjamin of Amnesty International.
The land declaration also bans mineral staking and mining, hydro damming and oil and gas extraction.
"Our way of life has been under attack by residential schools, ... mercury pollution, and racism," the statement says. "Now our fish are unsafe, the moose and caribou are nearly gone, we have less marten, wild rice and blueberries. Our medicines are tainted.
Last year, the provincial government committed $85 million to clean up the river, and the federal government has pledged to help build a mercury care home that will help some of the sickest residents.
The declaration demands compensation for the logging of roughly 20 million trees over a 20-year period.
The declaration will be enforced under Grassy Narrows "own authority," though Grassy leaders invited the provincial and federal governments to recognize and enforce it through legislation that places similar restrictions on land use and management.


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Triangle () é um filme de ação produzido no Honguecongue, dirigido por Tsui Hark, Ringo Lam e Johnnie To, e lançado em 2007.

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Distinct feature : Dalmatians are of medium size and are extremely active and energetic. They are bold, unique, and are known as the clowns of the dog world. This is a versatile breed that possesses the ability to work as a vermin hunter, hound, and circus performer as well as being a loyal companion.
Coat : The Dalmatian has a hard, smooth, short and dense coat. The color of the coat is pure white with spots that are either black or liver. Puppies are born completely white and spots develop as they mature.
Temperament : The Dalmatian is exceedingly social and thrives on human companionship and attention. They are extremely sensitive and do not do well if left alone for extended periods of time. They will typically get along with household pets they have been raised with, but display aggression to dogs they do not know. This breed is aloof with strangers and makes an excellent watchdog; only barking when absolutely necessary.
Activity : The Dalmatian must have daily frequent exercise. They enjoy participating in family activities and play sessions. Quality time spent with their family is extremely important to this breed. With their high degree of endurance, the Dalmatian makes an excellent walking, jogging, and hiking companion. This breed does best with a securely fenced yard they can romp and run in. Dalmatians are not recommended for apartment dwelling unless it is possible for them to receive a walk or run several times a day.


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2012 Olympic Games, Olympic Torch Relay
As London is hosting the Olympic Games next year, we have a feature on the history of the Games in 2012 Dairy Diary.
It is full of interesting facts, such as:
Britain is the only country to have won a gold medal in every one of the modern summer Olympics
in 1908 Britain won 56 golds
art competitions used to be part of the games in the early part of the 20th century!
In ancient Greece, a flame, ignited by the sun, was kept burning until the Games closed, and in 1928 the practice of keeping a flame alight for the duration of the Games was adopted by the modern Olympics.
A relay of runners bringing it to the host city was first introduced for the 1936 Games, held in Berlin.
As hosts we are all lucky enough to have the chance to see the flame pass.
There are 1,018 cities, towns and villages on the route of the Olympic Torch Relay next year. Between 18 May and 27 July, the Olympic Flame will come to within just 10 miles of 95% of the population of the UK. The Torch Relay will include some breathtaking spectacles and unusual modes of transport.
The world-famous telescope at Jodrell Bank, a steamer across Lake Windermere and the Manx Electric Railway all feature in the plans. Well worth watching!
For more information visit http://www.london2012.com/olympic-torch-relay
We have so much to celebrate! It's St Andrew's Day on Wednesday. Take the opportunity to make this delicious soup, which comes from the fishing village of Cullen, in Morayshire, Scotland.
The name of this rich, tasty soup comes
from the fishing village of Cullen, in Morayshire.
Recipe taken from Around Britain Dairy Cookbook.


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Die St.-Peter-und-Paul-Kirche in der Gemeinde Gumperda im Saale-Holzland-Kreis in Thüringen gehört zum Kirchengemeindeverband Reinstädt-Reinstädter Grund im Kirchenkreis Eisenberg der Evangelischen Kirche in Mitteldeutschland.

Lage
Die mittelalterliche Dorfkirche befindet sich in der Ortschaft in zentraler Lage.

Geschichte
Aus dem 12. Jahrhundert stammen Teile des Erdgeschosses. Im 15. Jahrhundert wurde das Gotteshaus zur Wehrkirche ausgebaut. Außerdem erhöhte man den Chorturm.

Kirchenschiff
Im 18. Jahrhundert erhöhte man das Kirchenschiff und baute Emporen ein. 1975–1977 entfernte man die Emporen bis auf die der Orgel. Das damals geschaffene Aussehen besitzt das Gotteshaus heute noch.

Besonderheiten
Die Kirche besitzt einen hochgotischen Flügelaltar und zwei romanische Türsturze aus dem 12. Jahrhundert. Auf der Nordseite ist der Sturz mit einem Blumenornament und auf der Südseite im Vorraum befinden sich Adam und Eva und ihre Vertreibung aus dem Paradies mit Hase am Fuß des Lebensbaums dargestellt. Diesem Relief wird ein hohes Alter zugesprochen.

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Home IT Management
Compuware Says Microsoft Partnership Paying Off
Darryl K. Taft
As Microsoft moves to broadly cover the application development life cycle by adding testing, profiling and design tools to its environment, Compuware says its partnership with the software giant has paid off so far—and that it should continue to do so as new opportunities arise in the market.
"Compuware as a company has addressed the area of the development life cycle for some time," said Rob Straight, product manager for DevPartner products at Compuware in Nashua, N.H. He said the company offers platform-independent tools that complement the Microsoft environment.
When Microsoft Corp. announced its VSTS (Visual Studio Team System) technology at its TechEd 2004 conference at the end of May, the company said it would spawn its own ecosystem.
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Microsoft is attempting to cover the application development life cycle more extensively by introducing testing, profiling and design tools, but Detroit-based Compuware says that not only can the market bear the competition, but that there are new opportunities to explore as well.
Theresa Lanowitz, an analyst with Gartner Inc., of Stamford, Conn., said the ecosystem is a big deal for Microsoft. With VSTS, Microsoft "is legitimizing the whole concept of the application development lifecycle" and making a strong play compared with IBM Corp. with its Rational division and Borland.
"In terms of IBM and Borland with respect to this announcement, … IBM should have been telling this story as soon as the Rational acquisition was closed," Lanowitz said. "IBM has not used the Rational acquisition to its benefit to tell the whole application lifecycle story. Borland does not have the attention of the CIO and still messages at a very developer-centric level. This is very 90s.
"Borland has not done anything to move themselves higher in the enterprise. Nor have they done anything to really take advantage of the acquisitions they made a couple of years ago. Borland still thinks in coding-centric terms," Lanowitz said.
Borland said it will support VSTS, particularly with its CaliberRM requirements management tool.
Lax Sakalkale, senior product line manager for development tools at Borland, told eWEEK that Borland will continue to support the Microsoft platform and be the "Switzerland of the tools area." Although, at JavaOne recently, Borland announced several moves to further support Java, including joining the Java Tools Community.
Meanwhile, Gartners Lanowitz said she believes that Compuware stands to make some gains as a supporter of Microsofts VSTS ecosystem.
Compuwares Straight said, "Its not surprising that as certain features become more well known they become commodities, like profiling, and Microsoft jumped on the bandwagon with Visual Studio Team System. But Compuware will continue to innovate."
Straight said Compuware will focus on areas where Microsoft is not, like with the companys bounds-checking and error-prevention software. He also said Compuware will evolve its profiling products to not only find problems in code, but also to identify, based on the type of application being developed, what parts of the code need to be changed to benefit performance. He said the company also would continue to evolve its testing and quality assurance tools, since Microsoft is still a year off with VSTS.
"Compuware is platform-neutral and product-deep," said Lanowitz. "They can complement Microsofts product line where necessary."
Both Straight and his colleague Peter Varhol, also a Compuware DevPartner Product Manager in Nashua, said that Microsoft has been a good technology partner to Compuware. "On a technical level we always had a close alliance," Varhol said. "The new Whidbey platform is part of that. I view the relationship as a very strong and very positive one."
On future directions for Compuwares tools, Straight said the company is aiming its profiling and other tools to include features that "assist developers in moving from having too many page faults to what you need to do about it."
Straight also said "Microsoft will have a performance profiler, but well have new capability to analyze the information you collect."
Compuware also is looking to beef up its security story by adding features that help developers write more secure applications. "We are shooting for developer-oriented capabilities to allow them to better understand the code," Straight said.
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Darryl K. Taft covers the development tools and developer-related issues beat from his office in Baltimore. He has more than 10 years of experience in the business and is always looking for the next scoop. Taft is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and was named 'one of the most active middleware reporters in the world' by The Middleware Co. He also has his own card in the 'Who's Who in Enterprise Java' deck.


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The Woman Who Made The 1984 Olympics A Masterpiece Of Design
In one of her final interviews, the late graphic designer Deborah Sussman speaks about the project that brought her the most pride.
By Diana Budds 2 minute Read
The world of environmental graphic design owes a great debt to Deborah Sussman (1931–2014), one of the industry's first practitioners.
Born in Brooklyn and educated at Bard, Black Mountain College, and eventually IIT, Sussman worked in the Eames Office from 1953–1957 and again in 1961–1967. before opening her own firm in 1968. In 1980, she formed Sussman/Prejza with her husband, architect urban planner Paul Prejza, whom she married in 1972. The firm created some of the most recognizable environmental graphics systems: the Big Blue Bus public transportation identity for the City of Santa Monica, Walt Disney World and Euro Disney, Philadelphia's wayfinding system.
But the landmark project that catapulted Sussman/Prejza onto the international stage was the graphics and wayfinding system for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. Working with architect Jon Jerde, Sussman/Prejza created pedestrian wayfinding signs, transportation signs, facility identification signs, and other graphics. With its punchy colors, geometric shapes and symbols, and the classically shaped signage structures, the system oozed 1980s PoMo.
Sussman, the 2004 AIGA Gold Medalist, is featured in a new video series conceived and produced by Collins for the Art Directors Club that covers the work of the most legendary modern designers. The interview took place in December 2013 when the exhibition Sussman Loves L.A. was on view at Woodbury University. A follow-up interview was planned, but did not take place before her death in August 2014, making this one of Sussman's last interviews. We've excerpted a few nuggets of wisdom below.
On being a woman in a male-dominated profession:
"In grammar school, the girls took shop and the boys had to take homemaking. I loved doing the shop. I loved making things. I loved using my hands. I got encouragement from everyone and because I loved what I was doing, I was not discouraged for being a woman."
On working with Charles and Ray Eames:
"When I came to the Eames Office I learned a lot about the value of indigenous culture … people in villages in Mexico, in India who made the stuff they used. I began to fall in love with indigenous cultures and folk art starting with Mexico."
On why it pays to think big:
"The accomplishment I take most pride in is the Olympics in L.A. in '84. It was a convergence of everything I knew and dreamed of. It was the ability to dream and think of things and see that they would happen."
On ambition:
"When Jon Jerde helped us with introductions to the Olympic committee and getting involved in things, he said, 'Don't think about your first assignment'–which was getting people around, wayfinding in the UCLA village–'dream about the whole thing.' And I did."
On why trust from a client is essential:
"That is a huge, huge part of being able to do your best work."
On the importance of experiences:
"I can get inspired by having a telephone conversation, I can get inspired by having lunch with people I'm compatible with or people I respect. I can get inspired by the movement of the birds on the telephone wires or the colors of the fading and bright sunset sky behind the poplars and eucalyptus trees outside in my garden. I can get inspired sometimes by looking at other people's work but not as much from real experiences.
All Images: via Art Directors Club
Diana Budds is a New York–based writer covering design and the built environment.


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Spaces available for first ever Brighton Marathon
Leading charity Deafness Research UK still has a few spaces left for the first ever Brighton Marathon on Sunday 18 April, so there's no better time to resurrect that New Year's resolution and make a positive choice to do something worthwhile.
[UKPRwire, Thu Jan 21 2010] Leading charity Deafness Research UK still has a few spaces left for the first ever Brighton Marathon on Sunday 18 April, so there's no better time to resurrect that New Year's resolution and make a positive choice to do something worthwhile. The deadline for entries is 1 Feb, so if you want to run for Deafness Research UK, you are encouraged to contact the charity as soon as possible.
Sue Bowcock, Community and Events Officer for Deafness Research UK, said: "You can enjoy the challenge of running a full marathon and raise vital funds for hearing research. We are probably one of the easiest options for anyone thinking about running the marathon, and any funds raised will make a real difference to our ability to conduct further life changing research for children and adults across the UK.
"Unlike some other charities, we do not demand a minimum sponsorship figure and we are not necessarily looking for experienced club runners. As long as you are fit enough to take on the challenge, are prepared to do the training and want to run for Deafness Research UK, we look forward to receiving enquiries from interested parties over the next week or two."
For further information, contact Sue Bowcock on 0207 679 8965 or e-mail her at sue.bowcock@deafnessresearch.org.uk
"The first ever Brighton Marathon is sure to be a massive success," added Sue. "The event will take place in the beautiful, and thankfully flat, seaside resort of Brighton. The organisers are fantastic supporters of small charities like ours and we hope that this will be a big fundraiser for Deafness Research UK. All we ask for is the £95 registration fee, plus as much sponsorship as you can raise for the charity.
Registration fee includes:
Covered "Charity Runner Hospitality" at the Start Area (accompanied access @ £2 per person): to include food & drink, extra toilets, and dedicated baggage drop-off.
Covered "Charity Runner Hospitality" at the Finish Area (accompanied access free if fee paid at Start, otherwise same fee of £2 per head applies): to include food & drink, extra toilets, and dedicated baggage pick-up.
"Red" Charity Runner wristband to ensure entry to exclusive charity areas.
Colour coded "Red" Charity Bib Number for race.
Finisher Certificate.
Finisher Medal.
Finisher T-shirt.
Finisher Goody Bag.
About Deafness Research UK
•	Deafness Research UK is the country's only charity dedicated to finding new cures, treatments and technologies for deaf, hard of hearing and other hearing impaired people.
•	The charity supports high quality medical research into the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of all forms of hearing impairment including tinnitus.
•	The Deafness Research UK Information Service provides free information and advice based on the latest scientific evidence and informed by leading experts. The Information Service can be contacted on Freephone 0808 808 2222
•	For more information on research into deafness, tinnitus and other hearing conditions, log on to the website at www.deafnessresearch.org.uk where you can access a wide range of information. Alternatively you can e-mail Deafness Research UK at info@deafnessresearch.org.uk
•	One in seven people in the UK – almost nine million people - suffer hearing loss.
•	Deafness Research UK was founded in 1985 by Lord (Jack) and Lady Ashley of Stoke.
In January 2008, Action for Tinnitus Research (ATR) was linked with Deafness Research UK under a uniting direction order under section 96(6) of the Charities Act 1993.
Scientific & medical advances
Since its creation in 1985, Deafness Research UK has awarded over £10 million in research grants to secure radical improvements in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of all forms of hearing impairment.
The advances we have been responsible for include:
•	the development of the Otoacoustic Emissions (OAE) test to enable doctors to identify hearing impaired babies at birth. …/cont
•	research into more effective cochlear implant devices and services, including assessment, fitting and rehabilitation procedures for children.
•	improvements in signal processing for digital hearing aids in order to help improve speech discrimination and understanding, particularly in noisy environments
•	the isolation of genes responsible for many forms of inherited deafness including the most important breakthrough – that mutations in the Connexin-26 gene cause a significant proportion of congenital and childhood deafness
•	research into preventing or repairing inner ear damage, including funding researchers who were the first to report that hair cells in the mammalian balance system can regenerate
•	the discovery that an overproduction of the neurotransmitter glutamate can be linked to tinnitus, a finding which could lead to new drug treatments for the condition.
Further Deafness Research UK achievements can be found at www.deafnessresearch.org.uk and following the 'achievements' button. A direct link follows here:
http://www.deafnessresearch.org.uk/Scientific%20%26amp%3B%20medical%20advances+2213.twl
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Hospital Boat
From 1893 until 1927, Braunton had its own hospital boat.
Such vessels were quite common in busy estuaries such as the Taw Torridge estuary and were intended as isolation units for homecoming sailors who had contracted infectious diseases abroad.
The initial idea of having a hospital boat seems to have been born when a ship called Fortunato Repetto sailed into Appledore with its yellow flag flying, which denoted fever. It had returned from the infected port of Bahia in East India and evidently caused alarm.
The Nymphen
The French vessel Nymphen was bought for the purpose at a cost of £275. She was sailed to Appledore and an auction was held to sell off all the surplus kit on board. Work then began to turn her into an Infectious Diseases Hospital.
This included provision of a male ward, a female ward, an isolation unit and two convalescent wards, in addition to nurse's rooms, kitchen and scullery. Three Bodley ranges were fitted and a primitive form of air conditioning was provided by wind-vanes that channelled fresh air down pipes, all the way to the bilge deck. The side of the ship was adorned with the words 'Barnstaple Port Sanitary Hospital' and once ready she was sailed to her resting place at Crow Point, where she was ballasted with gravel and had her rigging removed.
The task of the day to day running of the ship was first given to a Charles Petherick and his wife Hester, who were later replaced by a Mr Burgess and his wife. Between them they were responsible for keeping everything clean, keeping the ship in good repair, assisting the nurses in whatever ways they could, cooking and, when necessary, nursing simple cases.
All the preparation done, they were ready for an influx of infectious patients. This alas never arrived – in fact the hospital ship had just one patient in its entire history. Able seaman Bassett was taken off Bessie Gould in 1903 because he had smallpox and was indeed the only person ever to be treated for an infectious disease at the Barnstaple Port Sanitary Hospital.
The Charlotte
Incredibly, in 1924 Nymphen was joined by a second hospital ship called Charlotte. After two long years with still no patients between them, a survey was done on both ships which resulted in their sale, during January 1927, to Hinks of Appledore for a mere £32.
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Phnom Penh Post - Drugs, seized goods incinerated in Banteay Meanchey
Drugs, seized goods incinerated in Banteay Meanchey
Vong Sokheng and Thik Kaliyann | Publication date 08 March 2016 | 06:20 ICT
People watch the burning of illicit drugs in Banteay Meanchey province yesterday. Photo supplied
Tue, 8 March 2016
Vong Sokheng and Thik Kaliyann
Approximately 2 tonnes of drugs and illicit goods, including some 12 million tablets of methamphetamines seized in recent years, were incinerated yesterday by Banteay Meanchey provincial authorities.
Local economic police, military police and court prosecutors, including a senior official from the Ministry of Justice, presided over the destruction of the drugs in Sisophon town's Preah Ponlea commune, said Um Reatrey, Banteay Meanchey provincial deputy governor and spokesman for the province.
"The illicit drugs and substances were kept as evidence for three or four years, and after the perpetrators were completely sentenced, we have to take legal procedure in destroying [them]," Reatrey said.
"We have taken measures to combat illicit drug trafficking, but the root of drug trafficking has remained a concerning issue because of the complicated geography for illicit drug trafficking across the border with Thailand," Reatrey said.
A UN report released late last month said that Cambodia had become a transit hub for the region's drug trade, with one UN Office on Drugs and Crime official also attributing the problem's scale to Cambodia's geographic location between two wealthier countries with a high demand for drugs.
In addition to the drugs, authorities also destroyed other confiscated goods, such as a load of Korean noodles, coffee and a haul of the medicinal root ginseng.
Officials examine pharmaceuticals during a raid on a pharmacy in Siem Reap. National Police
In a separate case in Siem Reap town, nearly 800 tablets of expired pharmaceuticals are also slated for incineration after being seized from a local pharmacy.
The raid at the Saravoin pharmacy in Sala Kamroeuk commune on Sunday involved members of the economic police division and health department officials, according to Soeun Sem, chief of the Siem Reap economic police.
"We received the information from a customer who bought medicine from the pharmacy, and then they reported it to us when they found out that the pharmacy sold the expired medicine to them. After that, we started our investigation" he said.
"In Siem Reap province, there were many crackdowns on expired medicines. We raid more than 10 medical pharmacies that sell expired medicines every year," he said.
The pharmacy owner was fined 7 million riel, about $1,750.
Contact authors: Vong Sokheng and Thik Kaliyann
Probe underway on cops 'using excessive force'
Banteay Meanchey calls for halt on new stupas
Service opens on restored rails connecting Battambang, Banteay Meanchey
Banteay Meanchey gets free TV
Ratanakkiri, Banteay Meanchey to get new checkpoints
Court charges trio in arms trafficking case
Three men arrested for involvement in cross-border arms smuggling were yesterday charged with weapons trafficking, the prosecutor handling the case said. Banteay Meanchey Provincial Court
More suspects in Thailand arms smuggling case sought
Cross-border day workers decry closed checkpoints
Banteay Meanchey villagers seek dispute resolution
Student arrested for taking part in shooting


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Autopsy est un film d'horreur américain d'Adam Gierasch sorti en 2008.

Synopsis
Une bande de jeunes percute un homme sur le chemin du retour à la suite d'une soirée un peu trop arrosée. Ayant à peine eu le temps de s'en remettre, une ambulance arrive sur les lieux et transporte tout ce monde dans un hôpital miteux. C'est là que va commencer leur descente aux enfers...

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 Réalisation : Adam Gierasch
 Scénario : Adam Gierasch, Jace Anderson, Evan Katz
 Photographie : Anthony B. Richmond
 Budget : 15 000 Euro
 Genre : Epouvante-horreur, Science-fiction
 Année de production : 2008
 Durée : 84 minutes

Film interdit aux moins de 16 ans

Distribution

Lieux de tournage
Hollywood, Los Angeles, Californie, Jackson, Louisiane, La Nouvelle-Orléans.

Réception critique
Le film a reçu des commentaires favorables, et a même été nommé dans le festival des films d'horreur "Eight Films to Die For". Le film a été salué car il n'a pas eu recours à CGI - l'imagerie générée par ordinateur - pour réaliser ses effets spéciaux.

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Film d'horreur américain
Thriller (film) américain


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