Amazing Acura Ilx Manual Transmission – The ILX is small greater than a fancier Honda Civic, but current styling for 2019 at the least has its exterior seeking sporty and clean. The sole powertrain is actually a 201-hp two.4-liter four-cylinder with front-wheel travel mated to some smooth dual-clutch eight-speed computerized transmission. Apple CarPlay and Android Automobile are newly optional, and active-safety characteristics are actually common, nevertheless the inside still looks and feels dated. An A-Spec package adds sharper visuals but isn't going to back those up with any mechanical modifications.
Honda recalled 8,657 Acuras, referred to as the Legend in Japan, for the actual reason, as said through the submitting. It suggests it doesn't right away know how numerous automobiles is going to be lined through the recall. It truly is trying to find 2,430 substitute airbags that could have the defect, but could not identify all of them, foremost for the big remember. It is 1 of the most known and beloved automobile makers within the globe. Last but not least, you are getting a a lot nicer Honda in the bargain in the event you go for an Acura just like the TLX.
The tiny sedan is in production for several a long time. The brand new athletics sedan is quite useful and ideal for regular use. If you're looking for an entry-level sports sedan, you'll completely want to feel about the 2016 ILX now.
You could select a automobile, however , you cannot pick your family and friends. When you are trying to find a car which allows you to get pleasure from from the very good suspension aside from a great sound dampening be sure to take a look with the 2018 Acura ILX. The vehicle gets a a lot fresher appear, at the same time as enhanced technological innovation and much more protection products, creating the vehicle currently being a much better total value. You pick a premium auto due to the fact you adore driving. Furthermore, additionally, you can find numerous factors to the vehicle. When you might need guessed, a hundred and fifty horsepower will not a quick automobile make. Our helpful product sales men and women will make certain the brand new luxury Acura automobile in Austin you decide will provide you with whatever you assume from it.
Interiorly, the auto just isn't going to own much more changes. Very like many vehicles introduced a few or so several years prior to, manufacturers have been fighting to boost fuel-efficiency scores and maintain some sensation of driving excitement in the really identical time. Acquiring the right vehicle is merely the very initial step in responsible vehicle ownership. After you've got made a decision on a motor vehicle, we will function along with you that will help you to obtain the greatest possible terms and prices on an automobile bank loan or lease. From the functional standpoint, it is a four-seat motor vehicle.
Acura Ilx Manual Transmission, If you pick the Acura ILX, you will have an easier time locating a big enough place to park than you'll with all the Honda Accord. The Acura ILX has only been obtainable around the market for a pair many years. The Acura ILX retains every one of the entirety in the top quality together with basic interior styling with a couple enhancements in respect to minor particulars as well as the layout accents. The 2018 Acura ILX functions a plethora of basic safety functions. The 2018 Acura ILX can be a excellent all-around luxurious vehicle for the small family members. With four-door, the 2018 Acura ILX has the capability to supply you using the actual ease and comfort like it turned out to get a full-size sedan.
In several other areas on the planet, 2019 Acura ILX will be available with different engines. The Acura ILX isn't for everybody, though it may be liked. The 2019 Acura ILX will get started achieving Acura dealerships across the country in 2018.
Inside, you will learn improved interior resources and a few changes on the center of the dash, in which connectivity features are offered an upgrade with the debut of Acura's dual-screen infotainment systems towards the ILX. You are no require for being worried about the overall performance because it is extremely powerful as being a modern sedan. Should you wish to shop for one particular you're going to have without end, you may more than likely need to get only once. Instead than driving, make certain you stroll there. Should you prefer to finance! Never steer clear of fat in the event you would want to slim down. Normally, the appear is subdued.
By some means, you want to understand the 2020 Acura ILX redesign. In essence, exterior design of Acura ILX 2020 just isn't extremely various from your prior sequence. When it has to accomplish together with the inside in the car, it involves the magnificent designed features. The inside, exactly where you'll commit all of your time, must elicit some type of psychological reaction.
The recall is predicted to begin for the duration of September 2007. It is predicted to start in January 2014. The engine observe is furthermore a circumstance. The system only works at speeds previously mentioned 40 mph and should be turned on each time you begin the motor vehicle. Now, if it detects that you just will not respond, it could routinely utilize the brakes to sluggish down and even end the car. Even though a track-tuned suspension approach is unavailable, the traditional suspension was tweaked to deliver a good equilibrium of sportiness and comfort.
Hybrid mileage just isn't as marketed. These automobiles will need to get recalled by 2018. They are outlined below. You could not be ready to fund your vehicle or truck at the charge presented.
The automobile would be the really 1st Acura design to incorporate a hybrid powertrain being an different. It gets a significantly fresher seem, not forgetting improved engineering and a lot more security equipment, ensuing while in the auto getting a better all round price. Whether it is recalled later on for that particular dilemma, you might be in a position to obtain reimbursed in the automaker. You happen to be far more inclined to slide about than the automobile is. Additionally, you are going to ought to make sure the automobile is retained up in really superb issue to forestall high end-of-lease expenses.
The cabin is even a bit quieter. The inside is relaxed also. Normally, the look is handsome otherwise a tiny unassuming. It is a sporty layout which is modern and effective. To begin with, the voice recognition engineering is a little lackluster. Toyota's hybrid procedure is old, however it may well go the car gasless for fast distances. Its controls and features are extremely comparable.
The majority of the transformation while in the ILX's driving fashion is a outcome of the new powertrain. In accordance with Acura, the registration commits you to nothing at all so you can choose in the procedure at any moment. There's no method of disabling the idle-stop feature. Naturally, your entire intention of the hybrid is improved gasoline economic system. Yet another notable layout portion of the ZDX would be the big rear shoulders over the rear wheels. Expense You'll find lots of elements to have a look at when calculating the overall price of a motor vehicle.
If you are neighborhood and do not need to push while in the town, we'll carry the automobile to your residence or perform. Other locations are in fact exceptional. When acquiring an auto on lease specials you are just having to pay a piece of the whole price tag of the automobile when you lease rather than your entire volume. Base advised pricing looks reasonable for the two automobiles, however, you are likely to spend dearly for extravagant optional features irrespective of which you decide for. The most important assembly line will be stretched and a lot more area will be created offered for areas which can be exclusive towards the vehicle.
Genuine dealer price will likely be different. The depreciation price is calculated making use of a mixture of knowledge sources and assumptions, including the value of the vehicle, the mileage of the vehicle, and the all round the affliction of the auto. Incentive and finance supply shown may well not be offered to all clients. You could not be ready to mix different incentives with the purchase funding or leasing programs introduced above. The program features income reimbursement towards the price of adaptive equipment for disabled drivers.
All ILX variants have the exact same suspension tuning, but all of these don't utilize the really identical tires. The wagon edition of the TSX relies within the wagon edition of the Euro-spec Honda Accord which has been while in the European marketplace for some moment. Additionally, you will find packages offered for an additional cost.
All types are outfitted having a multi-view rear camera that gives you having a choice of three unique photographs of the region supporting the automobile when in reverse. The affected types are provided below. All types supply you outstanding convenience, a handsome seem, and decent drivability. Even though not certainly one of the types can be a portion of the present remember, all of them may well need to be recalled by 2018.


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It is now a done deal between the Executive and Legislative Arms of the Government for Nigerians to pay a 50% increase on Value Added Tax (VAT).
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday in State House signed the 2020 Finance Bill into law. This is sequel to its passage by the National Assembly and subsequent forwarding by the legislature to the President for assent.
Many were surprised that apart from a few whimpers, their representatives in the Senate and House of Representatives gave an easy passage to a bill that makes life more difficult financially.
A barrage of criticisms and few commendation have come the way of the President for the new law.
President Buhari, while presenting the 2020 Appropriation Bill to the National Assembly, had also presented the Finance Bill and said: "This Finance Bill has five strategic objectives, in terms of achieving incremental, but necessary, changes to our fiscal laws.
"These objectives are; Promoting fiscal equity by mitigating instances of regressive taxation; Reforming domestic tax laws to align with global best practices; Introducing tax incentives for investments in infrastructure and capital markets; Supporting Micro, Small and Medium-sized businesses in line with our Ease of Doing Business Reforms; and Raising Revenues for Government.
"The draft Finance Bill proposes an increase of the VAT rate from five per cent to 7.5 per cent , as such, the 2020 Appropriation Bill is based on this new VAT rate," he added.
With the assent, Presidential spokesman, Mr. Femi Adesina says, there will be more revenue to finance key government projects especially in the areas of health, education and critical infrastructure.
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Letters from Claptonia: You say you want an evolution?
I'm not a conspiracy theorist, a follower of Icke or a believer in UFOs. Nor am I particularly impressed by the various religions on offer to this world (although the Hindus seem like a pretty cool bunch).
I reserve a healthy scepticism for the many oddball theories about our human origins that are out there. The least believable, to me, is the six-day creationist stuff in the Bible. Of the mainstream theories, Darwin's evolution seems to hold the most water.
Human evolution has accelarated way beyond the development of animals and plants, though, and there are many theories as to how this could have happened. Perhaps the most 'out-there' suggestion is also the one that I keep returning to as the most likely. Ironically, this is the one where Darwinism and Creationism appear to meet.
The oft-repeated and refined von Daniken-esque suggestion is that our current species is a derivative of homo erectus that was genetically modified many thousands of years ago. The story goes that scientifically advanced extra-terrestrial visitors to planet Earth gave our ape-like ancestors a genetic kick up the rear: larger brains, a longer life etc etc. The stuff of science fiction? Perhaps, but as research into the human genome and cloning techniques advance through the 21st century, the theory gains weight.
Having made a little workforce, perhaps to build its pyramids, henges and cities, the aliens left or maybe died out. The books that make up the Old Testament are littered with references to giants, nephilim (crossbred humans and 'angels'), people living for several hundred years and messengers coming down and then buggering off. The Noah story would appear to relate a rescue mission from a dying planet, complete with a cargo of DNA samples. Somewhere along the line, the human race was abandoned, and left feeling orphaned and perhaps homesick by alien proxy.
It's these feelings that dominate the drive to question our origins and our 'creators'. If you want to take a proper punt on it all, isn't it a bit interesting that church spires are rocket-shaped? When we pray, we put our hands together in an aerodynamic shape do we not? We think of 'God' as being in the heavens. we think of Jesus in terms of coming back.
We've been dumped. As a race, we want our collective daddies back. We want them to come and collect us and take us back to their place, because locked in our genetic history is a misty memory of where we came from. Either that or the stories in the Bible are a record of our future - a prediction that WE are the aliens who will abandon our Earth, travel to another planet and create a new race 'in our image'.
There. How do you like them apples?


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Green Behind the Scene
by Mandy Behbehani February 16, 2009
Photos by Tim Porter
We've all heard about the environmental benefits of solar power, the hidden health dangers in some ordinary household items and how smart engineering can make the machines we use in daily life more energy-efficient and less polluting. What we don't often hear about are the innovative people whose ideas address these issues. They work largely behind the green screen, letting their results speak for them. Here are five of them—unveiled at last.
Solmetric
Making the most of solar power
With the telecommunications market cratering in 2005, Agilent hardware engineer Willard MacDonald faced a possible layoff. The timing seemed right to pursue a dream, so he took a severance package and founded Solmetric, with the goal of creating high-tech products for the solar industry. His motive was financial, but also altruistic, he says. Solar-powered heat and electricity have been around a long time, but with energy costs on the rise, the technology will become more important than ever.
MacDonald's mother, a social worker, had impressed on him the value of taking care of others. Alternative energy had long intrigued him.
"Global warming and energy supply are the fundamental problems we face," says the 38-year-old, bohemian-looking MacDonald, who works out of his home amid a thicket of redwood trees overlooking Bolinas Lagoon. "I felt a moral obligation to redirect my career to spend my working hours on these problems rather than (on) other problems."
First, he had to come up with a good idea. He started to think about the solar panels he had installed on his roof in 2002, at a cost of $40,000. "The guy who made the sales pitch had a product (the Solar Pathfinder) that was the standard shade analysis tool of the solar industry." The tool determined the solar power energy potential of a site by measuring its sun and shade quotient.
After MacDonald's solar system was installed, however, he found it was not performing at the optimum level. Even after the solar company repositioned the panels, the system underperformed.
MacDonald bought a Solar Pathfinder to do his own analysis. He found the device "elegant but outdated, tedious and inaccurate."
One day, during a business brainstorming session, he, his father and his brother decided to develop a more accurate and easier-to-use shade-measuring device.
In February 2005, MacDonald and fellow Agilent engineer Mark Galli went to work in Galli's Windsor garage, building a prototype of their first invention, the SunEye. It debuted in fall 2006, and over the next two years Solmetric sold 1,500 of the devices at $1,400 each, a much higher price than the Solar Pathfinder's $299.
The handheld electronic gadget has a touch-screen display that suggests when and where shadows will occur at your site throughout the day or year and where to place solar panels for maximum energy efficiency. It works with a compass, bubble level, computer, optional GPS, calculation software, integrated digital camera and a fish-eye lens that takes a hemispherical picture—an image of the entire horizon in 360 degrees. The device can calculate for tree trimming, planting or removal, and all data can be uploaded to a personal computer. The company now has distributors in Europe and Southeast Asia.
"It's critical to place modules carefully to modify shading," MacDonald says. "If even a corner of a panel is not in the sun, it can disproportionately affect performance."
More information at solmetric.com.
PAX Scientific
Natural solutions for manmade problems
San Rafael's PAX Sci entific looks to nature to solve human problems. The biomimicry design, and engineering and research firm was the 1997 brainchild of Australian inventor/entrepreneur Jay Harman, 59, a former naturalist with the Australian Department of Fisheries and Wildlife and founder of one of Australia's top technology companies.
Biomimicry is a new science that studies systems of the natural world to find sustainable solutions for the human world. Consider the ordinary exhaust fan. It's noisy and uses a lot of energy. Most mixers, pumps, turbines and propellers—all the devices we use to move substances ranging from water to oil to peanut butter—are similar in this regard. Limitations like drag resistance and low output make them terribly inefficient for the energy they require.
Harman has changed all that. He applied the spiral pattern of a whirlpool —what he calls the Streamlining Principle—to the blade and heat exchanger design of an ordinary fan. The result is a fan that is 10 to 50 percent more energy efficient and 75 percent less noisy. The spiraling geometry can be applied to almost any device that moves water, air or gas to create energy or provide cooling, Harman says, including pumps, propellers, wind turbines, automotive and computer cooling systems, aerospace technologies, industrial mixing and the vascular system of the human body.
"Pumps use 30 percent of the energy on earth," he notes. "Fans use 18. So if you can harness these natural efficiencies you can improve the efficiency output of these devices and halve the world's energy bill."
Today, PAX comprises four companies: PAX Scientific and PAX Streamline and subsidiaries PAX Water and PAX Mixer. PAX also licenses its technology for commercial use in a variety of markets.
The spark for Harman's invention came when he was only 10 years old, but it was his experience as a naturalist that got him truly engaged in fighting for the environment. "Australia is a large country with a tiny population and lots of wilderness area, and yet in 100 years it has cleared 90 percent of its hardwood forests," he says. "For four years, I was responsible for a forest in the southwest (region). I took great care of this area and then the state government thought its interests would be served better if it was turned into a bauxite mine. I saw this happening again and again."
Realizing that business is about making money, Harman understood what he had to do. "I needed to try to show how humanity could make a profit by doing the right thing. It occurred to me the tool kits humans have been working with (since) the industrial revolution have been incredibly destructive, so I was looking to nature to give us a new tool kit so we can be inspired by nature instead of destroying it. Nature is clean, green and sustainable—and that is what the world is now aspiring to. And if nature is already there and has already invented systems that humans need, there are models for everything we do."
One model is how water flows naturally, something that had fascinated Harman since childhood when he regularly skipped school to swim in the ocean among the fish. "I studied how they swam and it was effortlessly," he says. "And I saw how seaweed changed its shape to let huge waves go by. Even in incredibly fierce storms it wouldn't get torn up."
The shape Harman noticed was a curve that went into a spiral. "I realized that this shape seaweed was changing [in]to obviously must be the path of least resistance," he says. "And then one day I realized all these shapes were really just one specific shape and happened to be the same shapes that fish adopt when swimming. Then I noticed exactly the same shape in the whirlpool in my bathtub when I took out the plug. And that was my 'aha' moment."
For 20 years, Harman obsessively studied vortexes. "I said to myself, 'If I can just figure out the geometry of a whirlpool I will have the key to how nature moves things.'" He was able to freeze the whirlpool's shape after taking a cast of water while it drained. He then used the cast to develop models for impellers used in pumps and other devices that move fluids.
Today, Harman has moved on to a greater challenge: coming up with a strategy for cooling down the atmosphere, which he has already modeled on computer.
"Nature is extremely good at cooling right now with storms and so on," Harman says. "Unfortunately the carbon dioxide and methane in the upper atmosphere is interfering with the flow patterns so it's trapping the heat underneath this blanket of greenhouse gases that are incredibly destructive to the environment. We've worked out how to penetrate that blanket, to reinstate what nature does normally and cool things down. If we can get a little extra time by cooling down the atmosphere a bit, it gives us a little more time to work on wind turbines and solar power and shift to alternatives. Because right now the (time) window is too short. In 10 years it will be too late."
More information at paxscientific.com.
Collaborative on Health and the Environment
Tools for healing yourself—and the planet
As the women's health program manager at the Collaborative on Health and the Environment, a project of the progressive Bolinas think tank Commonweal, Heather Sarantis created a website that provides women with information on health and environmental contaminants and how they can make healthy changes in their homes and communities.
Sarantis, 37, is based in Berkeley but grew up in New England in the 1970s, in the shadow of construction of a controversial nuclear power plant in Seabrook, New Hampshire. The antinuclear movement was beginning, and very early on she understood she had the right to oppose things she felt were wrong — something she has done for 15 years. While with Rainforest Action Network, she worked on the Boycott Mitsubishi campaign to protest the company's logging practices, and for the Breast Cancer Fund she worked on the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics.
The Collaborative on Health and the Environment aims to show women how they can help bring about far-reaching policy changes—for instance, closing major loopholes in federal law that allow cosmetic companies to put chemicals in personal care products without testing for health effects. "We know there's a momentum in the healthy products sector but we also know we can't shop our way out of the problem," says Sarantis. "We have to change the policies by which products are made and the ingredients manufacturers are allowed to use. A lot of products are not required to list ingredients. The cosmetics area is supposed to list ingredients, but the rules are not very well enforced."
An example, she says, is phthalates—chemical compounds included in fragrances to make them last longer. "They are bad because they are a family of chemicals that are hormone disrupters."
Sarantis cites studies at the Centers for Disease Control that show elevated levels of phthalates in women of childbearing age who use a higher-than-average amount of personal care products. "One of the big areas of concern is when a fetus is in the womb and exposed to phthalates," she says. "A lot of the research in the last two decades shows there is likely a link between phthalates and sperm count and quality, a decline in testosterone and even testicular cancer."
More information at womenshealthandenvironment.org.
Green MBA
Making money while doing good
John Stayton spent 15 years in the Silicon Valley in high-tech industrial marketing and sales before experiencing his eco-epiphany.
"I finally reached a place in my own life when I could no longer be engaged in a career that was at best neutral and could at worst be seen as working against my values and lifestyle," says Stayton, 49, cofounder and director of Dominican University's Green MBA program, the country's first such program from an accredited institution.
Green MBA had its genesis in 2000 when Stayton and colleague Jane Lorand founded a master's in arts program in environmental entrepreneurship at the now-defunct New College of California campus in Santa Rosa. That program went through several iterations and between 2005 and 2007 morphed its way onto the Dominican campus as an MBA degree in Sustainable Enterprise. More than 100 students are enrolled in the program, which concentrates on business fundamentals, sustainability and leadership. Studying how to come up with solutions to promote financial viability, ecological sustainability, and social justice, students learn to lead sustainability initiatives in any type of organization.
This March Dominican launches a new, six-month Sustainable Enterprise Certificate program with an option called "Green Your MBA," for people who already have an advanced business degree or career experience and want to learn how to advance sustainability in organizations.
Stayton, who lives with his wife, Ana, on an organic fruit farm in Sonoma County, calls the Green MBA curriculum a "transformational process. It's a highly experimental experience, so we limit our class size to 20 and have a highly engaged classroom with hands-on learning. If someone comes into our program at whatever level of leadership, he or she will in two years gain a great capacity to lead sustainable initiatives."
After graduation, students generally start their own businesses, like thegreenoffice.com, an online office supply company founded by alumnus Alex Szabo, or they work to advance sustainability initiatives within existing organizations or go into consulting. One Dominican graduate now works with Clover Stornetta dairy and Petaluma Poultry Processors on reducing water consumption, energy use and more.
"If humanity is to survive, we are going to need to change the way we do and make everything," Stayton says.
More information at greenmba.com.
Sustaining the sustainers
Does living green extend to greening oneself? Mill Valley physician Linda Hawes Clever believes so. Twelve years ago, in a span of 18 months, Clever's mother died, her house was burglarized, she lost two jobs, her father died and her doctor husband was diagnosed with cancer. When Clever came up for air, she saw that plenty of other physicians around her were also depleted, tired of the daily thrash and demands on their lives. As chief of occupational health at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, she noticed colleagues who were having trouble just getting through another day—not the best recipe for optimal patient care.
In 1999, Clever founded RENEW, a nonprofit CPMC project intended to help health professionals cope with their high-pressure lives. The project has since expanded and addresses any group of people who want to regain effectiveness and enthusiasm by building on their own energy.
"People who want to save the ocean, the environment, the spotted owl have to save themselves first," she says. "Our job is to sustain the sustainers. The people who keep the world afloat—they have to be renewed and refreshed. Otherwise they end up like dust. We work with schoolteachers, volunteers, nonprofit people—anyone who cares about anything can get exhausted. You can get exhausted just from doing good. We can help people doing good works stay enthusiastic and effective and have purpose and joy."
Clever describes RENEW's stepwise formula as follows. "We must first realize that an issue or concern needs attention. Then we must think about it. Then we talk with our dear ones about it. Then we can make plans and go into action. We are our most valuable resources. We ourselves need and deserve at least as much care as we give our global villages. We need to refresh ourselves. That isn't selfish. It's self-preservation. Then we can do what we want and need to do."
More information at renewnow.org.
CAPTIONS: (top/middle) JAY HARMAN used biomimicry (the study of nature to solve human problems) to maximize the efficiency and reduce noise in the running of an ordinary exhaust fan.
(bottom/middle) HEATHER SARANTIS created a website that provides women with information on health and environmental contaminants and how they can make healthy changes in their homes and JOHN STAYTON is the cofounder and director of Dominican University's Green MBA program—the first from an accredited institution.
(bottom) LINDA CLEVER founded RENEW, a nonprofit CPMC project intended to help health professionals cope with their high-pressure lives.
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SōRSE Technology receives lead investment of $2 million for water-soluble technology
SōRSE Technology Corporation (the "Company" or "SōRSE"), a leading water-soluble emulsion technology company, announces the completion of a $2M lead investment in its convertible note offering with private equity firm, Merida Capital Holdings. The investment will fund further innovation and scalability as SōRSE expands its offerings beyond cannabinoids. SōRSE anticipates completing the fundraising for this convertible note offering in May 2021.
SōRSE has prioritized developing and investing in a world-class team of industry thought leaders in R&D, Product Development, and Quality Assurance. The Company has over 60 employees, including a 30+ person R&D team, comprised of scientists and product developers with over 200 years' aggregate experience in the food and beverage industry. With its patent-pending technology, SōRSE continues to improve the quality, consistency, and experience offered by infused food, beverage, nutraceutical, and personal care products. In the past year, SōRSE has added six new product offerings, while working on custom formulations and mobile production services, to better serve its 100+ clients. SōRSE's current client base extends beyond North America to South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.
SōRSE CEO Howard Lee commented: "We're excited to join Merida's prestigious portfolio, which includes other cannabis industry leaders we've collaborated with in the past such as New Frontier Data and Leafly. With Merida's financing, SōRSE can continue our 100%+ year on year revenue growth. The relationship allows our Company to continue its mission to make cannabinoids and other functional ingredients more efficacious and accessible for the consumer."
Merida Partner David Goldburg commented: "Merida is excited to lead this round of growth capital for one of the leading emulsion technology platforms in North America. With THC and CBD beverages poised for explosive growth, SōRSE is a clear market leader with best-in-class technology, the broadest array of product offerings, and the capability to customize solutions for any beverage type."
About Merida Capital Holdings Merida Capital Holdings ("MCH") is a private equity firm targeting fundamental growth drivers underpinning the rapid development of the cannabis industry. MCH manages roughly US$450mm in assets across over 50 portfolio companies, including companies that hold licenses to operate cultivation, processing, and retail facilities in several limited license states. MCH's investment emphasis focuses on cultivation technologies, products and services associated with the evolution of cannabis as an agricultural product, a natural plant-based medicine, a constituent in pharmaceutical formulations, and a recreational consumer product. MCH seeks to invest in companies that have successfully transitioned from start-up to revenue-generating growth companies. MCH works to further accelerate proven operating models and supercharge the growth of their commercial pipeline. By identifying essential providers with strong management teams, MCH can anticipate where enterprise-level or large industrial providers in related non-cannabis fields will look to find growth in their core businesses through acquisition or investment.
About SōRSE Technology SōRSE Technology is a patent-pending water-soluble emulsion technology designed for infusing functional ingredients into beverages, food items, topicals, and nutraceuticals. SōRSE is designed for product developers to make oil-based functional ingredients water-soluble and more efficacious, while also providing the consumer with a consistent, safe, and enjoyable experience. SōRSE Technology powers more than 100 leading products and is available in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.
Contacts Press Richard Laermer RLM PR sorsetech@rlmpr.com (212) 741-5106 x 216
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The High Tea Carolers are a professional Victorian Christmas Caroling troupe in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Made up of experienced and emerging performers, we are available for hire during the Christmas and holiday season and all-year-round for your parties and events!
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S04E05 Suede 'Suede'
We are back after a short break to have a look at what the big deal was about Suede's debut, self-titled album which was released in April 1993. Krister remembers really liking those big three first singles while Dave remembers actively hating the band and all they stood for when he was an angry 17 year old.
We also get the chance to chat about Tool, David Essex and Jade in the course of the show which must surely be the first time those three have ever been in the same sentence.
And we really must thank Stephen and Remfry from the brilliant Riot Act podcast for letting us join them on their 90s One Hit Wonders special episode - we've seen loads of new listeners come on board after hearing us on there so we hope you enjoy what we're doing as well!
You can follow us on Facebook and Twitter, listen to this episode's bespoke Spotify playlist with all the songs we talk about on there, check out all previous episodes on our website and as always feel free to contact us via any of the above to say hi or tell us why we're wrong about most everything.


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Geoscientific Model Development An interactive open-access journal of the European Geosciences Union
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Coupled chemistry–meteorology modelling: status and relevance for numerical weather prediction, air quality and climate communities (SI of EuMetChem COST ES1004) (ACP/GMD inter-journal SI)(ACP/GMD inter-journal SI)
Editor(s): GMD topical editors | Coordinators: B. Vogel and A. Baklanov Special issue jointly organized between Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics and Geoscientific Model Development
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An assessment of aerosol optical properties from remote-sensing observations and regional chemistry–climate coupled models over Europe
Laura Palacios-Peña, Rocío Baró, Alexander Baklanov, Alessandra Balzarini, Dominik Brunner, Renate Forkel, Marcus Hirtl, Luka Honzak, José María López-Romero, Juan Pedro Montávez, Juan Luis Pérez, Guido Pirovano, Roberto San José, Wolfram Schröder, Johannes Werhahn, Ralf Wolke, Rahela Žabkar, and Pedro Jiménez-Guerrero
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 18, 5021–5043, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-5021-2018,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-5021-2018, 2018
Atmospheric aerosols modify the radiative budget of the Earth, and it is therefore mandatory to have an accurate representation of their optical properties for understanding their climatic role. This work therefore evaluates the skill in the representation of optical properties by different remote-sensing sensors and regional online coupled chemistry–climate models over Europe.
Changes in domestic heating fuel use in Greece: effects on atmospheric chemistry and radiation
Eleni Athanasopoulou, Orestis Speyer, Dominik Brunner, Heike Vogel, Bernhard Vogel, Nikolaos Mihalopoulos, and Evangelos Gerasopoulos
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 10597–10618, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-10597-2017,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-10597-2017, 2017
This work focuses on the impact of residential wood burning on aerosol levels, composition and radiation under the ongoing economic crisis in Greece. The atmospheric model COSMO-ART performed a series of runs during the winter of 2013–2014. Emission inputs were revised according to the detailed aerosol characterization by local measurements. Aerosol levels were found to be elevated and mostly composed of organics, yet the timing of the plume justifies the minor radiative cooling and feedbacks.
Modeling the radiative effects of biomass burning aerosols on carbon fluxes in the Amazon region
Demerval S. Moreira, Karla M. Longo, Saulo R. Freitas, Marcia A. Yamasoe, Lina M. Mercado, Nilton E. Rosário, Emauel Gloor, Rosane S. M. Viana, John B. Miller, Luciana V. Gatti, Kenia T. Wiedemann, Lucas K. G. Domingues, and Caio C. S. Correia
Fire in the Amazon forest produces a large amount of smoke that is released into the atmosphere and covers a large portion of South America for about 3 months each year. The smoke affects the energy and CO2 budgets. Using a numerical atmospheric model, we demonstrated that the smoke changes the forest from a source to a sink of CO2 to the atmosphere. The smoke ultimately acts to at least partially compensate for the forest carbon lost due to fire emissions.
Enviro-HIRLAM online integrated meteorology–chemistry modelling system: strategy, methodology, developments and applications (v7.2)
Alexander Baklanov, Ulrik Smith Korsholm, Roman Nuterman, Alexander Mahura, Kristian Pagh Nielsen, Bent Hansen Sass, Alix Rasmussen, Ashraf Zakey, Eigil Kaas, Alexander Kurganskiy, Brian Sørensen, and Iratxe González-Aparicio
Geosci. Model Dev., 10, 2971–2999, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-2971-2017,https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-2971-2017, 2017
The Environment – HIgh Resolution Limited Area Model (Enviro-HIRLAM) is developed as a fully online integrated numerical weather prediction and atmospheric chemical transport model for research and forecasting of joint meteorological, chemical and biological weather. Different aspects of online coupling methodology, research strategy and possible applications of the modelling system, and ''fit-for-purpose'' model configurations for the meteorological and air quality communities are discussed.
Regional effects of atmospheric aerosols on temperature: an evaluation of an ensemble of online coupled models
Rocío Baró, Laura Palacios-Peña, Alexander Baklanov, Alessandra Balzarini, Dominik Brunner, Renate Forkel, Marcus Hirtl, Luka Honzak, Juan Luis Pérez, Guido Pirovano, Roberto San José, Wolfram Schröder, Johannes Werhahn, Ralf Wolke, Rahela Žabkar, and Pedro Jiménez-Guerrero
The influence on modeled max., mean and min. temperature over Europe of including aerosol–radiation–cloud interactions has been assessed for two case studies in 2010. Data were taken from an ensemble of online regional chemistry–climate models from EuMetChem COST Action. The results indicate that including these interactions clearly improves the spatiotemporal variability in the temperature signal simulated by the models, with implications for reducing the uncertainty in climate projections.
Modeling regional air quality and climate: improving organic aerosol and aerosol activation processes in WRF/Chem version 3.7.1
Khairunnisa Yahya, Timothy Glotfelty, Kai Wang, Yang Zhang, and Athanasios Nenes
Volcanic ash modeling with the online NMMB-MONARCH-ASH v1.0 model: model description, case simulation, and evaluation
Alejandro Marti, Arnau Folch, Oriol Jorba, and Zavisa Janjic
We describe and evaluate NMMB-MONARCH-ASH, a novel online multi-scale meteorological and transport model developed at the BSC-CNS capable of forecasting the dispersal and deposition of volcanic ash. The forecast skills of the model have been validated and they improve on those from traditional operational offline (decoupled) models. The results support the use of online coupled models to aid civil aviation and emergency management during a crisis such as the 2010 eruption of Eyjafjallajökull.
Evaluating the representation of aerosol optical properties using an online coupled model over the Iberian Peninsula
Laura Palacios-Peña, Rocío Baró, Juan Luis Guerrero-Rascado, Lucas Alados-Arboledas, Dominik Brunner, and Pedro Jiménez-Guerrero
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 277–296, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-277-2017,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-277-2017, 2017
The effects of atmospheric aerosols over the Earth's climate mainly depend on their optical, microphysical and chemical properties, which modify the Earth's radiative budget, the main source of uncertainty in climate change. In this work we have studied the representation of aerosol optical properties using an online coupled model (WRF-Chem) when aerosol–radiation interactions (ARIs) and aerosol–clouds interactions (ACIs) are taken into account over the Iberian Peninsula.
Changes in regional meteorology induced by anthropogenic heat and their impacts on air quality in South China
Min Xie, Kuanguang Zhu, Tijian Wang, Wen Feng, Da Gao, Mengmeng Li, Shu Li, Bingliang Zhuang, Yong Han, Pulong Chen, and Jingbiao Liao
In this paper, we present our new findings on (1) the spatial and temporal characteristics of AH emissions in South China, (2) how to implement the inhomogeneous AH data into the air quality model WRF/Chem, (3) the impacts of AH fluxes on meteorological fields, and (4) the impacts of meteorology changes on the air quality in different cities in South China. Our results show that the meteorology and air pollution predictions in and around big cities are highly sensitive to AH.
Description and evaluation of the Multiscale Online Nonhydrostatic AtmospheRe CHemistry model (NMMB-MONARCH) version 1.0: gas-phase chemistry at global scale
Alba Badia, Oriol Jorba, Apostolos Voulgarakis, Donald Dabdub, Carlos Pérez García-Pando, Andreas Hilboll, María Gonçalves, and Zavisa Janjic
Geosci. Model Dev., 10, 609–638, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-609-2017,https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-609-2017, 2017
This paper presents a comprehensive description and benchmark evaluation of the tropospheric gas-phase chemistry component of the Multiscale Online Nonhydrostatic AtmospheRe CHemistry model (NMMB-MONARCH), an online chemical weather prediction system conceived for both the regional and global scales. We provide an extensive evaluation of a global annual cycle simulation using a variety of background surface stations, ozonesondes, aircraft data and satellite observations.
The Brazilian developments on the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (BRAMS 5.2): an integrated environmental model tuned for tropical areas
Saulo R. Freitas, Jairo Panetta, Karla M. Longo, Luiz F. Rodrigues, Demerval S. Moreira, Nilton E. Rosário, Pedro L. Silva Dias, Maria A. F. Silva Dias, Enio P. Souza, Edmilson D. Freitas, Marcos Longo, Ariane Frassoni, Alvaro L. Fazenda, Cláudio M. Santos e Silva, Cláudio A. B. Pavani, Denis Eiras, Daniela A. França, Daniel Massaru, Fernanda B. Silva, Fernando C. Santos, Gabriel Pereira, Gláuber Camponogara, Gonzalo A. Ferrada, Haroldo F. Campos Velho, Isilda Menezes, Julliana L. Freire, Marcelo F. Alonso, Madeleine S. Gácita, Maurício Zarzur, Rafael M. Fonseca, Rafael S. Lima, Ricardo A. Siqueira, Rodrigo Braz, Simone Tomita, Valter Oliveira, and Leila D. Martins
We present a new version of the Brazilian developments on the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (BRAMS) where different previous versions for weather, chemistry, and the carbon cycle were unified in a single harmonized software system. This version also has a new set of state-of-the-art physical parametrizations and higher computational parallel and memory usage efficiency. BRAMS has been applied for research and operational weather and air quality forecasting, largely in South America.
Two global data sets of daily fire emission injection heights since 2003
Samuel Rémy, Andreas Veira, Ronan Paugam, Mikhail Sofiev, Johannes W. Kaiser, Franco Marenco, Sharon P. Burton, Angela Benedetti, Richard J. Engelen, Richard Ferrare, and Jonathan W. Hair
Biomass burning emission injection heights are an important source of uncertainty in global climate and atmospheric composition modelling. This work provides a global daily data set of injection heights computed by two very different algorithms, which coherently complete a global biomass burning emissions database. The two data sets were compared and validated against observations, and their use was found to improve forecasts of carbonaceous aerosols in two case studies.
The importance of plume rise on the concentrations and atmospheric impacts of biomass burning aerosol
Carolin Walter, Saulo R. Freitas, Christoph Kottmeier, Isabel Kraut, Daniel Rieger, Heike Vogel, and Bernhard Vogel
Buoyancy produced by vegetation fires can lead to substantial plume rise with consequences for the dispersion of aerosol emitted by the fires. To study this effect a 1-D plume rise model was included into the regional online integrated model system COSMO-ART. Comparing model results and satellite data for a case study of 2010 Canadian wildfires shows, that the plume rise model outperforms prescribed emission height. The radiative impact of the aerosol leads to a pronounced temperature change.
Effects of aerosols on clear-sky solar radiation in the ALADIN-HIRLAM NWP system
Emily Gleeson, Velle Toll, Kristian Pagh Nielsen, Laura Rontu, and Ján Mašek
The direct shortwave (SW) radiative effect of aerosols under clear-sky conditions in the ALADIN-HIRLAM numerical weather prediction system was investigated using three SW radiation schemes in diagnostic single-column experiments. Each scheme accurately simulates the direct SW effect when observed aerosols are used, particularly for heavy pollution scenarios.
Modeling of the anthropogenic heat flux and its effect on regional meteorology and air quality over the Yangtze River Delta region, China
Min Xie, Jingbiao Liao, Tijian Wang, Kuanguang Zhu, Bingliang Zhuang, Yong Han, Mengmeng Li, and Shu Li
The spatial and temporal distribution of anthropogenic heat emissions over the YRD region was developed. These gridded AH emissions were incorporated into the modified WRF/Chem model with the seasonal and diurnal variation. The impacts of AH on meteorology and chemical variables were evaluated. The results show that the anthropogenic heat inputs improved the meteorology and air pollution predictions from WRF/Chem in and around large urban areas.
Variational data assimilation for the optimized ozone initial state and the short-time forecasting
Soon-Young Park, Dong-Hyeok Kim, Soon-Hwan Lee, and Hwa Woon Lee
In order to improve the predictability of air quality, we optimize initial ozone state throughout the 4D-Var data assimilation. Previously developed code for the data assimilation has been modified to consider background error in matrix form, and various numerical tests are conducted. A surface observational assimilation is conducted and the statistical results for the 12 h assimilation periods show a 49.4 % decrease in RMSE and a 59.9 % increase in IOA.
A low-order coupled chemistry meteorology model for testing online and offline data assimilation schemes: L95-GRS (v1.0)
J.-M. Haussaire and M. Bocquet
Geosci. Model Dev., 9, 393–412, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-393-2016,https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-9-393-2016, 2016
The focus is on the development of low-order models of atmospheric transport and chemistry and their use for data assimilation purposes. A new low-order coupled chemistry meteorology model is developed. It consists of the Lorenz40-variable model used as a wind field coupled with a simple ozone photochemistry module. Advanced ensemble variational methods are applied to this model to obtain insights on the use of data assimilation with coupled models, in an offline mode or in an online mode.
Decadal evaluation of regional climate, air quality, and their interactions over the continental US and their interactions using WRF/Chem version 3.6.1
Khairunnisa Yahya, Kai Wang, Patrick Campbell, Timothy Glotfelty, Jian He, and Yang Zhang
The Weather Research and Forecasting model with Chemistry (WRF/Chem) v3.6.1 is evaluated for its first decadal application during 2001 to 2010 using the Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5 emissions. The model evaluation shows acceptable performance for long-term climatological simulations of most meteorological variables and chemical concentrations. Larger biases exist for aerosol-cloud-radiation variables, which future model improvement should focus on.
Can a coupled meteorology–chemistry model reproduce the historical trend in aerosol direct radiative effects over the Northern Hemisphere?
J. Xing, R. Mathur, J. Pleim, C. Hogrefe, C.-M. Gan, D. C. Wong, and C. Wei
Atmos. Chem. Phys., 15, 9997–10018, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-9997-2015,https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-15-9997-2015, 2015
The ability of a coupled meteorology-chemistry model (WRF-CMAQ) in reproducing the historical trend in AOD and clear-sky SWR over the N-Hemisphere has been evaluated through a comparison of 21-year simulated results with observation-derived records from 1990-2010. Questions of How well does the model represent the regional and temporal variability of aerosol burden and DRE, and Is the model able to capture past trends in aerosol loading and associated radiatiation effects will be addressed.
Application of WRF/Chem over North America under the AQMEII Phase 2 – Part 2: Evaluation of 2010 application and responses of air quality and meteorology–chemistry interactions to changes in emissions and meteorology from 2006 to 2010
K. Yahya, K. Wang, Y. Zhang, and T. E. Kleindienst
Geosci. Model Dev., 8, 2095–2117, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-8-2095-2015,https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-8-2095-2015, 2015
The application of WRF/Chem to North America shows that it can reproduce most observations and their variation trends from 2006 to 2010. The inclusion of chemical feedbacks reduces biases in meteorological predictions in 2010 but increases errors comparing to WRF. The net changes in meteorology from 2006 to 2010 are mostly influenced by changes in meteorology and those of ozone and fine particles are influenced by changes in emissions and chemical BCONs, and to a lesser extent meteorology.
Data assimilation of satellite-retrieved ozone, carbon monoxide and nitrogen dioxide with ECMWF's Composition-IFS
A. Inness, A.-M. Blechschmidt, I. Bouarar, S. Chabrillat, M. Crepulja, R. J. Engelen, H. Eskes, J. Flemming, A. Gaudel, F. Hendrick, V. Huijnen, L. Jones, J. Kapsomenakis, E. Katragkou, A. Keppens, B. Langerock, M. de Mazière, D. Melas, M. Parrington, V. H. Peuch, M. Razinger, A. Richter, M. G. Schultz, M. Suttie, V. Thouret, M. Vrekoussis, A. Wagner, and C. Zerefos
The paper presents results from data assimilation studies with the new Composition-IFS model developed in the MACC project. This system was used in MACC to produce daily analyses and 5-day forecasts of atmospheric composition and is now run daily in the EU's Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service. The paper looks at the quality of the CO, O3 and NO2 analysis fields obtained with this system comparing them against observations, a control run and an older version of the model.
Evaluation of the high resolution WRF-Chem (v3.4.1) air quality forecast and its comparison with statistical ozone predictions
R. Žabkar, L. Honzak, G. Skok, R. Forkel, J. Rakovec, A. Ceglar, and N. Žagar
A new chemistry option in WRF-Chem v. 3.4 for the simulation of direct and indirect aerosol effects using VBS: evaluation against IMPACT-EUCAARI data
P. Tuccella, G. Curci, G. A. Grell, G. Visconti, S. Crumeyrolle, A. Schwarzenboeck, and A. A. Mensah
ICON–ART 1.0 – a new online-coupled model system from the global to regional scale
D. Rieger, M. Bangert, I. Bischoff-Gauss, J. Förstner, K. Lundgren, D. Reinert, J. Schröter, H. Vogel, G. Zängl, R. Ruhnke, and B. Vogel
Data assimilation in atmospheric chemistry models: current status and future prospects for coupled chemistry meteorology models
M. Bocquet, H. Elbern, H. Eskes, M. Hirtl, R. Žabkar, G. R. Carmichael, J. Flemming, A. Inness, M. Pagowski, J. L. Pérez Camaño, P. E. Saide, R. San Jose, M. Sofiev, J. Vira, A. Baklanov, C. Carnevale, G. Grell, and C. Seigneur
Data assimilation is used in atmospheric chemistry models to improve air quality forecasts, construct re-analyses of concentrations, and perform inverse modeling. Coupled chemistry meteorology models (CCMM) are atmospheric chemistry models that simulate meteorological processes and chemical transformations jointly. We review here the current status of data assimilation in atmospheric chemistry models with a particular focus on future prospects for data assimilation in CCMM.
Sources of black carbon aerosols in South Asia and surrounding regions during the Integrated Campaign for Aerosols, Gases and Radiation Budget (ICARB)
R. Kumar, M. C. Barth, V. S. Nair, G. G. Pfister, S. Suresh Babu, S. K. Satheesh, K. Krishna Moorthy, G. R. Carmichael, Z. Lu, and D. G. Streets
This study introduces source, sector and region specific tracers in WRF-Chem to identify most important sources of black carbon aerosols in South Asia during ICARB. We find anthropogenic emissions from residential and industrial sectors were the most important sources of BC in South Asia during ICARB. Regional transport is also found to play an important role in distributing BC over this region.
Tropospheric chemistry in the Integrated Forecasting System of ECMWF
J. Flemming, V. Huijnen, J. Arteta, P. Bechtold, A. Beljaars, A.-M. Blechschmidt, M. Diamantakis, R. J. Engelen, A. Gaudel, A. Inness, L. Jones, B. Josse, E. Katragkou, V. Marecal, V.-H. Peuch, A. Richter, M. G. Schultz, O. Stein, and A. Tsikerdekis
Geosci. Model Dev., 8, 975–1003, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-8-975-2015,https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-8-975-2015, 2015
We describe modules for atmospheric chemistry, wet and dry deposition and lightning NO production, which have been newly introduced in ECMWFs weather forecasting model. With that model we want to forecast global air pollution as part of the European Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service. We show that the new model results compare as good or better with in-situ and satellite observations of ozone, CO, NO2, SO2 and formaldehyde than the previous model.
Feedbacks of dust and boundary layer meteorology during a dust storm in the eastern Mediterranean
S. Rémy, A. Benedetti, A. Bozzo, T. Haiden, L. Jones, M. Razinger, J. Flemming, R. J. Engelen, V. H. Peuch, and J. N. Thepaut
In this paper we report on a new mechanism whereby the radiative effect of dust aerosol on surface fluxes acts to increase the dust loading of the atmosphere via modification of boundary-layer stability, thereby acting to enhance the radiative aerosol effect. This positive feedback between dust aerosol and boundary layer stability occurred during a series of dust storms in the Eastern Mediterranean in April 2012, which were studied using a global atmospheric composition forecast system.
Ozone production and transport over the Amazon Basin during the dry-to-wet and wet-to-dry transition seasons
M. M. Bela, K. M. Longo, S. R. Freitas, D. S. Moreira, V. Beck, S. C. Wofsy, C. Gerbig, K. Wiedemann, M. O. Andreae, and P. Artaxo
Simulating black carbon and dust and their radiative forcing in seasonal snow: a case study over North China with field campaign measurements
C. Zhao, Z. Hu, Y. Qian, L. Ruby Leung, J. Huang, M. Huang, J. Jin, M. G. Flanner, R. Zhang, H. Wang, H. Yan, Z. Lu, and D. G. Streets
A new WRF-Chem treatment for studying regional-scale impacts of cloud processes on aerosol and trace gases in parameterized cumuli
L. K. Berg, M. Shrivastava, R. C. Easter, J. D. Fast, E. G. Chapman, Y. Liu, and R. A. Ferrare
Online coupled regional meteorology chemistry models in Europe: current status and prospects
A. Baklanov, K. Schlünzen, P. Suppan, J. Baldasano, D. Brunner, S. Aksoyoglu, G. Carmichael, J. Douros, J. Flemming, R. Forkel, S. Galmarini, M. Gauss, G. Grell, M. Hirtl, S. Joffre, O. Jorba, E. Kaas, M. Kaasik, G. Kallos, X. Kong, U. Korsholm, A. Kurganskiy, J. Kushta, U. Lohmann, A. Mahura, A. Manders-Groot, A. Maurizi, N. Moussiopoulos, S. T. Rao, N. Savage, C. Seigneur, R. S. Sokhi, E. Solazzo, S. Solomos, B. Sørensen, G. Tsegas, E. Vignati, B. Vogel, and Y. Zhang
Impacts of increasing the aerosol complexity in the Met Office global numerical weather prediction model
J. P. Mulcahy, D. N. Walters, N. Bellouin, and S. F. Milton
A scale and aerosol aware stochastic convective parameterization for weather and air quality modeling
G. A. Grell and S. R. Freitas
The Chemistry CATT-BRAMS model (CCATT-BRAMS 4.5): a regional atmospheric model system for integrated air quality and weather forecasting and research
K. M. Longo, S. R. Freitas, M. Pirre, V. Marécal, L. F. Rodrigues, J. Panetta, M. F. Alonso, N. E. Rosário, D. S. Moreira, M. S. Gácita, J. Arteta, R. Fonseca, R. Stockler, D. M. Katsurayama, A. Fazenda, and M. Bela
Coupling between the JULES land-surface scheme and the CCATT-BRAMS atmospheric chemistry model (JULES-CCATT-BRAMS1.0): applications to numerical weather forecasting and the CO2 budget in South America
D. S. Moreira, S. R. Freitas, J. P. Bonatti, L. M. Mercado, N. M. É. Rosário, K. M. Longo, J. B. Miller, M. Gloor, and L. V. Gatti
Inclusion of ash and SO2 emissions from volcanic eruptions in WRF-Chem: development and some applications
M. Stuefer, S. R. Freitas, G. Grell, P. Webley, S. Peckham, S. A. McKeen, and S. D. Egan
Modeling the South American regional smoke plume: aerosol optical depth variability and surface shortwave flux perturbation
N. E. Rosário, K. M. Longo, S. R. Freitas, M. A. Yamasoe, and R. M. Fonseca


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Big Data & Business Analytics
Computer science Ph.D. candidate, professor, and alumni work together to change the world of big data modeling
You pick up your laptop, go to Netflix and search for a movie. You grab your smartphone, open Pandora and browse through millions of songs. You visit the website of your favorite store to shop for a new jacket. All of these simple everyday activities, multiplied by millions of consumers, generate what is known as "big data" — massive amounts of valuable digital information.
"To keep applications running smoothly, thousands of organizations across all industries manage their large datasets using one of the leading open-source database systems — Apache Cassandra — which can run across tens of thousands of machines and deliver high read-and-write performance," says Andrey Kashlev, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Computer Science.
Databases like Cassandra store all of their information in numerous tables that support queries powering the various actions that the application performs. "In Netflix, for example, one query may list all films in a particular genre," says Kashlev. The set of tables supporting queries for an application constitute a data model. Thus far, data models have been created manually. That presents a major challenge.
"Thousands of data architects — the experts behind applications like Netflix — must create tables by manually applying multiple design rules by hand. Big data modeling is still a tedious and error-prone process that requires specialized training and experience. Data models can take an expert anywhere from hours to weeks to create, and a single error at any stage of the design could result in the entire application not running," says Kashlev. "For companies like Netflix, application downtime means unhappy consumers and, often, loss of revenue."
Kashlev set out to address this problem and, as a result, may have solved one of the biggest challenges in big data management.
Working with his advisor, Shiyong Lu, associate professor of computer science, and alumnus Artem Chebotko, PhDCS'08 MACS'05, a Solution architect and data modeling expert with big data company DataStax, Kashlev invented a method to automate big data modeling.
"Using our knowledge of Cassandra and expertise in data modeling, we developed an innovative software tool — the Kashlev Data Modeler (KDM) — that automates the most complex and time-consuming data modeling tasks and ensures errorfree Cassandra database design," says Lu. Instead of requiring data architects to build query after query by hand, KDM builds intelligent big data models in seconds.
"Our tool automatically produces data models that efficiently sort and partition large sets of data and ultimately help drive efficiency and accuracy," says Kashlev.
The team developed an intuitive, userfriendly graphical interface for KDM and released it publicly at no cost. The software was presented through major forums like IEEE BigData Congress 2015, the highly visible Planet Cassandra blog and social media. Just six months after its initial release, KDM attracted more than 600 registered users from 15 universities and more than 200 companies in more than 65 countries.
"Our users include professors, researchers, students, entrepreneurs and developers, who have successfully used KDM to generate hundreds of big data models in a variety of fields, including health care, education, Internet of Things, investment markets, transportation, retail, security and many more," says Lu. KDM is also being used as an educational tool to teach NoSQL and Cassandra.
"The creation of KDM is an exciting milestone in big data research," says Lu. "A breakthrough with such immediate impact in industry is quite significant for a Ph.D. student. I am very proud of Andrey."
Kashlev says the best validation of KDM is the number of users and the scope of its application. "Practitioners, expert data architects from major organizations, are not only using the tool, but reaching out to us to request collaboration," he says.
The team, which is working under Lu's Big Data Research Laboratory, looks forward to continuing the development and deployment of KDM, specifically in areas most related to quality of life, such as health care and safety. "We want to use KDM and big data to make things smarter and better for society," says Kashlev.
Lu and Kashlev Welcome feedback and collaboration. They can be contacted at Shiyong@Wayne.edu and andrey.kashlevowayne.edu. To learn more about or register to use KDM, visit kdm.dataview.org.
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The Women Behind Fall 2017's Best TV
By Stacy Lambe 12:32 PM PDT, September 22, 2017
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Following The Handmaid's Tale and Big Little Lies' big wins at the Emmys, where women truly shone this year, it's hard not to celebrate the women behind the scenes responsible for some of TV's best scripted programming.
The fall will continue the momentum with a number of new and returning shows created, produced, written and directed by women. And this year, several networks have launched programs to encourage and diversify the creative teams behind TV.
NBC, which says all of its new and returning shows have female writers in their writers rooms and has female producers on 14 scripted series, has announced an initiative called Female Forward. The program, starting during the 2018-19 season, will give 10 female directors the opportunity to shadow on at least three episodes of a NBC series, with a guarantee to direct one in-season episode.
It's similar to FX and longtime collaborator Ryan Murphy's current program, Half initiative, which aims to creative equal opportunities for women and minorities behind the camera. In 2016, the number of female and diverse directors on the network's shows was 51 percent, up from 12 percent in the previous season. And on Murphy's shows, like American Horror Story: Cult, at least half of the episodes are directed by women. The same is true for NBC's Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders, which will see half its first season helmed by female directors including Lesli Linka Glatter, who has been nominated for five directing Emmys (including this year, when she lost to Reed Morano).
Check out all the series -- new and returning -- largely directed, written and produced by women coming this fall.
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9JKL (CBS)
Dana Klein co-created the new CBS sitcom with husband (and star) Mark Feuerstein. The multicamera series is loosely based on their real-life experiences as a couple, when Feuerstein was shooting the USA series Royal Pains. Dana Honor and Wendi Trilling also serve as executive producers and longtime How I Met Your Mother director Pamela Fryman helmed the pilot.
Alias Grace (Netflix)
Another Margaret Atwood novel gets the TV treatment, with her 1996 fictionalized account of the 1843 murders of Thomas Kinnear and his housekeeper at the center of the story. Sarah Polley wrote and produced the new limited series, which is directed by Mary Harron. Rising Canadian actress Sarah Gadon stars with Anna Paquin in a supporting role.
Director Sarah Polley and Anna Paquin in a scene from 'Alias Grace.'
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American Horror Story: Cult(FX)
In addition to producers Alexis Martin Woodall, Karen Romero and Crystal Liu, FX and Ryan Murphy are making good on their promise to include more women behind the camera with Angela Bassett, Gwyneth Horder-Payton, Jennifer Lynch, Liza Johnson, Maggie Kiley and Rachel Goldberg directing over half of Cult's 11 episodes. "Normally you have to bring in the National Guard for that kind of stuff," Johnson told ET of FX. The network took "this dare," she notes, and "I think that's kind of amazing."
Better Things (FX)
Fresh off the series' first Emmy nomination (for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series), Pamela Adlon is back with season two of Better Things, which she co-created with Louis C.K. This season, Adlon directed every episode in addition to serving as star, showrunner and co-writer. (M. Blair Breard, who also works on One Mississippi, co-executive produces.) "I have a vision and an aesthetic and a style that really lent itself to me taking over in every way on my show," she told The Cut. "In that way it became a lot easier for me to execute this whole season."
Black Mirror: "Arkangel" (Netflix)
While creator Charlie Brooker is largely the mastermind behind Black Mirror -- he has a writing credit on every episode of the series except one -- he does bring in award-winning directors to bring his anthology series alive. Season four sees Jodie Foster helming one episode, "Arkangel," becoming the series' first and only female director. Meanwhile, Foster has become a formidable TV (and Emmy-nominated) director, helming episodes of Netflix's Orange Is the New Black and House of Cards, which earned Laverne Cox and Reg E. Cathey Emmy nominations and Uzo Aduba her first of two Emmy wins.
Broad City (Comedy Central)
Co-creators and executive producers Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer are back with season four of Broad City, which has become a hilarious showcase for female friendships in addition to being a place that's hosted a number of kick-ass female cameos, including Alia Shawkat, Cynthia Nixon, Kelly Ripa, Patricia Clarkson, Rachel Dratch, Tracee Ellis Ross and Hillary Clinton, "The extraordinary experience of not only working with two stupidly funny people -- it's not even right how funny they are -- but on top of that, they are women and they also write and produce and edit and do all of that stuff on their show. The experience of that was the biggest and most wonderful breath of fresh air," Ross told ET about appearing on season three, adding: "To see women in these comedic roles on a weekly basis is everything and a bag of chips!" Amy Poehler, Brooke Posch and Lilly Burns serve as executive producers, with Lucia Aniello, who wrote and directed Rough Night, serving as co-executive producer.
Jodie Foster and a scene from the "Arkangel" episode of 'Black Mirror' season four.
Chance (Hulu)
Scoring a two-season order from the get-go, Chance is back with its second installment from co-creator and showrunner Alexandra Cunningham. The Hulu original series starring Hugh Laurie follows a growing history in prestige TV for Cunningham that includes consulting on Bates Motel and writing and producing Desperate Housewives.
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (The CW)
Created, written and executive produced by Aline Brosh McKenna and Rachel Bloom, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend returns for a music-filled third season. When it comes to their creative partnership, McKenna says Bloom is her soulmate. "I've had writing partners, producers and a number of really close collaborations -- but not one like this. We ended up writing 900 pages of material for the show. It's productive and intense.… We have developed twin speak -- we're basically like tree elves gibbering in our own language. No one makes me laugh harder," she told Motto.
Chicago-Law & Order Universe (NBC)
Dick Wolf's ever-expanding TV universe, which started with Law & Order and now includes Special Victims Unit, True Crime and the Chicago series (Fire, Med, P.D.), has become dominated by women behind the scenes: SVU is now executive produced by longtime writer Julie Martin and star Mariska Hargitay. True Crime, the new anthology series that launched this fall with The Menendez Murders, is executive produced by director Lesli Linka Glatter, who will helm two episodes. Half of the season's eight episodes will be directed by women. Danielle Gelber, who helped launch the Chicago franchise, executive produces P.D. and Diane Frolov is the executive producer and co-showrunner of Med.
The Deuce(HBO)
The Deuce, HBO's new series about the rise of the porn industry in 1970s New York City created by David Simon and George Pelecanos, also includes Nina K. Noble, who previously worked with Simon on Show Me a Hero, Treme and The Wire, as executive producer and star Maggie Gyllenhaal as producer. For Gyllenhaal's part, she told ET that her role as producer was largely to give feedback on scripts. Megan Abbott and Lisa Lutz serve as co-executive producers and writers, while episodes of season one were directed by Michelle MacLaren, Uta Briesewitz and Roxann Dawson.
Stephanie Savage and the cast of 'Marvel's Runaways.'
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Dynasty(The CW) andMarvel's Runaways (Hulu)
Stephanie Savage knows teen drama. The producer has helped create, write and execute some of TV's best high school-age soaps, from The O.C. to Gossip Girl to the short-lived Carrie Diaries. Now she's back, teaming up with longtime producing partner Josh Schwartz, to develop and produce a remake of Dynasty for a whole new generation as well as co-create and co-run Hulu's teen Marvel series, Runaways, about six teenagers who unite against their criminal parents. Episodes of the first season are also directed by Roxann Dawson, who has had a busy 2017, Nina Lopez-Corrado and Millicent Shelton.
Empire and Star (FOX)
The hit hip-hop series created by Lee Daniels returns for a fourth season with a crossover with Star, creating an expanded TV universe from the filmmaker. Ilene Chaiken, who created The L Word, still serves as showrunner of Empire, with Sanaa Hamri directing and executive producing and Attica Locke as supervising producer. Starring Queen Latifah, Empire's female-led counterpart is executive produced by longtime Daniels collaborator Pamela Oas Williams and Effie Brown, who famously butted heads with Matt Damon on Project Greenlight and produced Dear White People.
The Girlfriend Experience (Starz)
The anthology series created, written, directed and executive produced by Amy Seimetz along with Logan Kerrigan, is breaking from last season's format and will follow two parallel stories focusing on entirely new characters, plotlines and locations. Seimetz's storyline follows Bria (Carmen Ejogo), a former high-end escort who enters the Witness Protection Program and is relocated to New Mexico.
Great News (NBC)
After serving as producer and writer on 30 Rock and The Mindy Project, Tracey Wigfield went on to create Great News, the NBC comedy about an up-and-coming news producer and her overbearing mother, starring Briga Heelan and Andrea Martin. The show is executive produced by Tina Fey, who will guest star on season two, and longtime TV director Beth McCarthy-Miller.
Maria Bamford and Ana Gasteyer in a scene from 'Lady Dynamite' season two.
Jane the Virgin(The CW)
Created and executive produced by Jennie Snyder Urman, Jane the Virgin returns with season four as Jane (Gina Rodriguez) is confronted by her first love, Adam, played by guest star Tyler Posey. The show is also produced by Corinne Brinkerhoff, Gina Lamar, Meredith Averill and Eva Longoria, who also directed an episode in season three. "I absolutely love seeing a Zoe Saldana succeeding. I love seeing a Gina Rodriguez succeeding," Longoria told ET about women who empower her and what it means to champion each other. "Their success is my success. They're opening doors. Whether it's me opening doors for Gina or Zoe opening a door for me, we're all tied together."
Lady Dynamite (Netflix)
The second season of Lady Dynamite sees the return of Maria Bamford, who co-executive produces with Pam Brady, in this delightfully twisted sitcom about the comedian adjusting to life in Los Angeles after spending time away recovering for bipolar disorder. The show also stars Ana Gasteyer, Mary Kay Place and Mo Collins.
The Long Road Home (Nat Geo)
Based on Martha Raddatz's bestseller, the new scripted drama from Nat Geo chronicles the events of "Black Sunday," when a platoon was ambushed in Sadr City, Baghdad. Raddatz serves as a production consultant on the series, which includes episodes written by Amy Louise Johnson, Kelly Wiles and Lana Cho.
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon)
Amazon's new period drama centers on a 1950s housewife (Rachel Brosnahan) who turns to standup comedy after her husband admits to having an affair. The series was created by Amy Sherman-Palladino and co-stars Alex Borstein and Marin Hinkle, with a guest appearance by Jane Lynch.
Mindy Kaling and a scene from 'The Mindy Project.'
The Mindy Project (Hulu)
Created by Mindy Kaling, The Mindy Project is now in its sixth and final season on Hulu. Over the course of the series, there have been a number of women who have written and directed episodes. In the final season, Lang Fisher serves as co-executive producer as well as director alongside writers Mackenzie Dohr, Miranda Berman and Sonia Kharkar, Kaling's longtime assistant, and directors Daniella Eisman, Linda Mendoza and Geeta Patel. With Mindy's role front and center, Kaling used the character to write someone that was flawed. "I don't want to be the sweet wife," she recently told The New York Times. "And yeah, if that can be the legacy, and I had really funny jokes and said crazy things that women had not said before, then that's really nice."
Newton's Law (Acorn TV)
Deb Cox and Fiona Eagger, the creators and executive producers of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (a must-watch now streaming on Netflix and Acorn TV), are back with another Melbourne crime series. This time, the story focuses a suburban solicitor who attempts to return to her briefly glorious career at the bar. Much of the first season was directed by Jennifer Leacey and Jennifer Perrott and written by Belinda Chayko, Elizabeth Coleman, Elizabeth Packett and Ellie Beaumont.
One Mississippi(Amazon)
Co-created by Tig Notaro and Diablo Cody, One Mississippi is a semi-autobiographical series about a Los Angeles-based radio host who returns to Mississippi when she learns that her mother is being taken off life support, and ultimately stays to help care for the family's affairs after her death. Season two, which is now streaming on Amazon, is executive produced by Kate Robin and M. Blair Breard, who also helps out on Better Things, with episodes written by Stephanie Allynne, Cara DiPaolo and Zoe Jarman and directed by Wendey Stanzler and Minkie Spiro.
Outlander (Starz)
While created for TV by longtime sci-fi TV producer Ronald D. Moore, Starz's sweeping drama that travels through the ages is supported by a large female team that includes executive producers Anne Kenney, Maril Davis and Toni Graphia, co-producer Elicia Bessette and season three directors Charlotte Brandstrom, Jennifer Getzinger and Norma Bailey, and writers Joy Blake, Karen Campbell and Shannon Goss.
Sarah-Violet Bliss and a scene from 'Search Party' on TBS.
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Queen Sugar (OWN)
The OWN drama returns with the second half of season two, helmed by an all-female directing team -- Garrett Bradley, Kat Candler, Julie Dash, DeMane Davis, Cheryl Dunye, Aurora Guerrero, Amanda Marsalis, Maryam Keshavarz, Liesl Tommy and Christina Voros -- handpicked by creator and executive producer Ava DuVernay.
Search Party (TBS)
The mysterious dark comedy starring Alia Shawkat was created by Sarah-Violet Bliss and Charles Rogers, who both write and direct the series, which returns in November. The pair previously wrote for Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp and Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later. Lilly Burns, who works on Broad City, Younger and Difficult People, also serves as executive producer.
Shut Eye (Hulu)
As executive producer of Shut Eye, the psychic noir series starring Jeffrey Donovan, Melissa Bernstein is in charge of a lot. As head of the television division of Gran Via Productions, according to the New York Times, she helps staff the writers rooms, which now include Amy Berg and Katrina Cabrera-Ortega, hires music supervisors, editors and cinematographers and chooses directors, including Meera Menon, Sheree Folkson and Jennifer Getzinger. "I'm soup to nuts," she told the paper during a visit to the set last year.
SMILF (Showtime)
Created, executive produced, written and directed by Frankie Shaw, SMILF is a new series based on Shaw's Sundance Film Festival Jury Award-winning short film of the same name. The series follows the life of Bridgette (Shaw), a Boston native whose desires for relationships, sex and a career collide with the realities of being a single mom. Janice Williams (HBO's Confirmation) also serves as executive producer and Rosie O'Donnell co-stars in her first series regular TV role.
Ava DuVernay and a scene from 'Queen Sugar' season two.
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Star Trek: Discovery (CBS All Access)
The longtime Star Trek franchise returns to TV for the first time since Enterprise ended in 2005. Discovery, which notably has shaken up traditional cast of characters with Sonequa Martin-Green leading as USS Shenzhou First Officer Michael Burnham, is executive produced by Heather Kadin (Limitless) and Gretchen J. Berg (Revenge) with Kirsten Beyer writing and Lee Rose directing one episode.
Teachers (TV Land)
TV Land's original comedy about a group of elementary school teachers was created and executive produced by and stars The Katydids -- Caitlin Barlow, Katy Colloton, Cate Freedman, Kate Lambert, Katie O'Brien and Kathryn Renée Thomas -- with Allison Brie serving as executive producer. "I think my favorite part about this dream that we've all achieved together is that the six of us are women, and we're friends and we're doing it together," Freedman told Splitsider. "There's not another show that's an all-female ensemble that started the way we did, does exactly what we do, and does it to the depth that we do it."
Ten Days in the Valley (ABC)
Created by Tassie Cameron, the new thriller starring Kyra Sedgwick (who also serves as executive producer) tells the story of a television producer trying to balance a complicated work and home life after her daughter disappears in the middle of the night. The series is also executive produced by Jill Littman, Sherry White, Dana Goldberg and Marcy Ross.
TGIT (ABC)
Shonda Rhimes' Thursday night lineup is back, with Grey's Anatomy returning for season 14(!), Scandal debuting its final season and How to Get Away With Murder returning with the newly Oscar-minted star Viola Davis. Created by Rhimes, Grey's is executive produced by Betsy Beers, Krista Vernoff, Zoanne Clack and Debbie Allen. Scandal, also created by Rhimes, is executive produced by Beers. HTGAWM sees Rhimes and Beers serving as executive producers. All three shows have become a place for women writers and directors, with longtime star Chandra Wilson helming the most among her female counterparts.
Elizabeth Berger and Milo Ventimiglia and Mandy Moore in a scene from 'This Is Us' season two.
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This Is Us (NBC)
Elizabeth Berger is one-half of the duo responsible for This Is Us season two as co-showrunner and co-executive producer, alongside Isaac Aptaker. The two were promoted to run the show alongside creator Dan Fogelman after penning some of season one's most pivotal episodes. They have a long history of writing together, getting started on FOX's Friends With Benefits before first working with Fogelman on The Neighbors and Grandfathered. Season two will also see Regina King stepping in to direct an episode, making her the second high-profile guest director following Helen Hunt in season one.
Top of the Lake: China Girl (Sundance TV)
On the second, stunning installment of Top of the Lake, co-creator, writer and director Jane Campion takes Robin's (Elisabeth Moss) story from a remote New Zealand town to Sydney, Australia, where she investigates the murder of a Chinese prostitute while trying to connect with a daughter she gave up for adoption. As for returning to Top of the Lake, Moss told ET that she saw it as an opportunity "to show real humans and real women that are very complicated and have very different feelings and emotions about things."
Transparent (Amazon)
Creator Jill Soloway has long called for an end to the patriarchy by putting more women behind the camera and in her writers' room. On her other Amazon series, I Love Dick, the writers' room was 100 percent women, a "choice," she told ET, "to create a room without the male gaze." Transparent, which is back with its fourth season, is executive produced by Andrea Sperling and Bridget Bedard, with episodes written by Faith Soloway, Stephanie Kornick and Our Lady J and directed by Soloway, Allison Liddi-Brown, Andrea Arnold, Sarah Gavron, Marta Cunningham and actress Gaby Hoffmann.
Will & Grace (NBC)
After initially ending in 2006, Will & Grace is back with its original stars -- Eric McCormack, Debra Messing, Megan Mullally and Sean Hayes -- and producing team, creators David Kohan and Max Mutchnick and Tracy Poust. After writing and producing for Ugly Betty and serving as executive producer on 2 Broke Girls and The Crazy Ones, Poust returns as executive producer on the revival, which has already been renewed for a second season.
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Dáil Éireann díospóireacht -
Tuesday, 3 Dec 1991
Vol. 413 No. 9
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - National Monuments Legislation.
Ruairí Quinn
Ceist:
4 Mr. Quinn asked the Taoiseach if he has any plans to amend the legislation concerning heritage matters in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
The Taoiseach
In so far as my Department are concerned, work is at an advanced stage on the preparation of legislation to amend the National Monuments Acts. These changes arise from the Supreme Court judgment in the Derrynaflan case. In addition, I am considering proposals for the establishment of the National Heritage Council on a statutory basis. The council, whose responsibilities relate to the physical heritage — archaeology, architecture, flora, fauna, heritage gardens and certain inland waterways — have been operating on a non-statutory basis since 1988. Work has also begun on legislation to provide for State indemnity for cultural exhibitions, thereby formalising the present situation.
Mr. Quinn
When does the Taoiseach expect that the draft text of such legislation might be circulated?
I mentioned two items of legislation. One will be concerned with changes to the National Monuments Act to cope with the Derrynaflan judgment, and that is well advanced. Work on the Bill to put the National Heritage Council on a statutory basis is not so well advanced. The council have been doing very well without the statutory basis.
Mr. McCartan
The Minister for Education is frowning at the Taoiseach.
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G. King Thompson (November 24, 1887 – May 12, 1979) was a justice of the Iowa Supreme Court from January 1, 1951, to June 30, 1965, appointed from Linn County, Iowa.

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Time may be running out on the search for the cosmos' exotic dark matter. Decades after the first searches for dark matter's hypothetical exotic particle counterparts, researchers are mostly at a loss to explain why there still has been no direct detection. That is, one that could explain why such unseen, dark matter particles only appear to weakly interact with normal matter.
McGaugh says one huge problem is that while dark matter theory is 'confirmable' it is not 'falsifiable' as a scientific theory should be.
There's no exit strategy, says McGaugh. Indeed, he says his colleagues have heedlessly blown through many experiential markers which they have chosen to ignore.
"The search for dark matter has become a quagmire of confirmation bias," McGaugh concludes. More.
So many research areas in science today are hitting hard barriers that it is reasonable to think that we are missing something.
What if dark matter just doesn't stick to the rules?
Mass slaughter: Can well-intentioned humanism replace values thought to be rooted in reality?
This somewhat parallels the search for the random, undirected origin of life. As long as people assume that it must exist they'll search for it endlessly. It's like searching for the lost island of unicorns. Every horse, narwhal, volcano, and story is "evidence" of getting closer to what will never be found.
The divergence is that while dark matter may or may not exist, the possibility of its existence isn't entirely irrational (insane) while believing and even insisting that self-reproducing entities with complexity that dwarfs that of any human technology somehow just happened in a warm puddle (or ice, or a thermal vent, or space, etc.) is disconnected from and contradictory to all of known reality, and is therefore both irrational and insane.


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