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Top 10 acts to see at this year's BIGSOUND music conference
AUSTRALIA'S biggest music conference — BIGSOUND — is on this week in Brisbane and we've picked 10 acts to get you started in the packed schedule.
Daniel Johnson and Alex Strachan
The Courier-MailSeptember 3, 20184:47pm
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Melbourne singer songwriter Didirri will play BIGSOUND before going on tour with Vance Joy.Source:Supplied
SINCE its modest beginnings almost two decades ago, Brisbane music industry conference and live music festival BIGSOUND has gone on to become the biggest event of its kind in Australia.
Started in 2002 by music industry development association QMusic with the aim of helping to drive professional engagement for the Brisbane music scene, BIGSOUND has been instrumental in helping launch the careers of artists including Flume, Courtney Barnett, Gang of Youths, A.B. Original, The Peep Tempel, The Temper Trap, Hatchie and Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever.
Almost 14,000 people attended last year's festival, which provided an estimated $2.8 million economic impact to Brisbane, and this year's event, which runs from Tuesday until Friday, will include performances from more than 150 different acts across 18 venues in Brisbane's Fortitude Valley.
More than 1500 music industry delegates will attend this year's conference, which also includes more than 130 speakers — who will take part in a variety of panel discussions — as well as keynote addresses from the likes of Australian music icon Paul Kelly and author Virginia Hanlon Grohl (yep, that's Dave Grohl's mum).
With such a diverse roster of artists performing, it's difficult to know where to start when it comes to exploring what's on at BIGSOUND, and although this is by no means a definitive list, below are a few acts you should consider checking out if you get along.
DIDIRRI
Melbourne's Didirri was one of the most talked-about artists at last year's BIGSOUND, with his idiosyncratic blend of indie-pop and earnest acoustic folk lulling the room into silence during his sets. He's gone from strength to strength since, releasing the stunning Measurements EP in July, touring extensively both here and abroad, and performing at festivals including this year's Splendour in the Grass. Didirri will be opening for Vance Joy on his tour later this month — which includes two huge shows at Brisbane's Riverstage on September 21 and 22 — so this may well be your last chance to witness him playing in a comparatively intimate setting.
Wednesday, 11.40pm — Ric's Big Backyard
ASHA JEFFERIES
Over the past couple of years, Brisbane's Asha Jefferies' star has been steadily rising, with her evocative blend of indie-pop and roots earning her plenty of critical praise, as well as support slots with artists including Radnor and Lee, Stella Donnelly, Bec Sandridge and Oh Mercy. This year her song Chaos was short-listed for a prize in the prestigious Vanda & Young Songwriting Competition and was also one of acts to win the NIDA Triple J Unearthed contest in March, which pairs emerging artists with the creative minds at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) to collaborate on a music video. Her new single Everybody Talks was released last month, and her forthcoming debut EP will be produced by Miro Mackie, who has previously worked with the likes of Cold War Kids and St Vincent.
Tuesday, 9.40pm — Black Bear Lodge; Thursday, 11.40pm — Foundry
TOTAL PACE
Brissie's Total Pace have only officially been around for a few months, but there's a good chance you will have seen some of the band's members playing in their other projects. Featuring Simon Ridley from DZ Deathrays and Velociraptor, Matthew Somers from I Heart Hiroshima, Luke Henery from Violent Soho and Branko Cosic from Tape/Off, the four-piece — who describe their influences as drinking beer and playing fast — have quickly made a name for themselves with their shambolic, frenetic, yet still somehow melodic, brand of garage-punk. They played to a packed house at Black Bear Lodge when they launched their debut, self-titled EP in July, and they'll be sure to attract an equally enthusiastic response at BIGSOUND.
Tuesday, 11.20pm — The Zoo; Wednesday, 11.50pm — The Foundry
SAHARA BECK
Sahara Beck has been on the scene for a few years now, but the future is looking brighter than ever for the Eclectic Brisbane-based singer-songwriter. Her latest single Here We Go Again, her first new material since 2016 album Panacea, recently won the adult contemporary category of the international Unsigned Only Music Competition, and if it's any indication of the direction her songwriting is heading, her set will be one of this year's highlights.
Wednesday, 11.40pm — Empire Hotel
TIA GOSTELOW
Mackay-bred and now Brisbane-based musician Tia Gostelow performed at her first BIGSOUND two years ago when she was only 16. Her debut single State of Art won the Triple J indigenous Initiative in 2016 and her song Hunger has now been streamed more than 500,000 times on Spotify. Gostelow's evocative brand of indie-rock and innate ability to write meaningful lyrics that belie her relative youth have resulted in an ever-growing fan base and support slots with the likes of Frightened Rabbit, Gomez and Bernard Fanning. Gostelow, who recently released her new single Strangers, will release her debut album, Thick Skin, on September 21.
Oztix Party, Thursday, 5.35pm — The Brightside
GOOD DOOGS
Good Doogs are the latest band to emerge from the booming Aussie surf rock scene. Following in the footsteps of bands such as Skeggs and Hockey Dad, the Mandurah 3-piece mix can switch from sparkling guitars and reverbed vocals to raucous punk rock in an instant. Their breakthrough single Nothing to Do is an infectious slacker anthem, while follow up So Dumb is almost dreamy despite its frantic pace. Despite only forming last year, Good Doogs have been playing shows across the country, so they should be in good form.
Wednesday, 11.30pm — Crowbar Black; Thursday, 9.50pm — Famous Nightclub
Sydney rapper/producer Kwame has been having a wild 2018. The Endless Conversations. EP he released this year marked a massive step up in production for the 20-year-old, with the lead single, the infectious party-starter WOW, getting rotation on Triple J and earning him a slot at Splendour in the Grass. Two years ago, the straight-edge performer was pulled out from the crowd to perform onstage with A$AP Ferg, and his sound is a mix of A$AP Mob and British grime. Kwame says he treats every live performance as his last and he's right in one respect — this could be the last time you see him in such intimate surrounds.
Tuesday, 10.40pm — Elephant Hotel; Thursday, 11.30pm — Famous Nightclub
Western Sydney rapper Kwame will play twice during the festival. Picture: Justin LloydSource:News Corp Australia
KAIIT
When soul icon Jill Scott claims you're her and Erykah Badu's Australian love child, you know it's time to get excited. How about throwing in a little Lauryn Hill and Amy Winehouse as well? With Kaiit's velvety vocals and confident delivery, it's hard to believe the Melbourne singer/rapper is only 20 years old. Then again, everything about her music screams "smooth". The indigenous artist announced herself last year with Natural Woman and her latest single OG Luv Kush pt. 2 picks straight back up with future soul vibes.
Wednesday, 11.30pm — The Brightside; Thursday, 10pm — Ric's Big Backyard
TAPE/OFF
It's been a long time between drinks for Brisbane act Tape/Off, who burst on to the scene in 2014 with their Australian Music Prize-listed debut album Chipper. Their recently released second album Broadcast Park is worth the wait. Full of drive and soaring guitars, apathy never sounded so intense. The single Day In, Day Out is a standout — any band that can turn the "Current. Financial. Climate" into an anthem deserves great credit. The four-piece are inspired by the American indie fuzz guitar bands of the early to mid-90s but make no mistake: Tape/Off's sound is unmistakably Brisbane to the core.
Wednesday, 9.10pm — The Valley Drive In; Thursday 8.10pm — Crowbar Black
Melbourne punk rock band Cable Ties.Source:Supplied
The Melbourne female punk scene is pumping at the moment and Cable Ties are one of its best exponents. Very in much in the Eddy Current Suppression Ring or Peep Tempel mould of garage punk rock, the 3-piece stretch their primitive grooves to breaking point. On the band's breakout tracks The Producer and Tell Them Where to Go, vocalist/guitarist Jenny McKechnie's lays cutting lyrics over the band's driving rhythm section. Two years ago Cable Ties got 'The Boot' at the Meredith Music Festival — an acknowledgment as one of the festival's best bands — so make sure you don't miss them here.
Tuesday, 10.30pm — The Zoo; Wednesday, 11.40pm — The Valley Drive In
BIGSOUND runs from Tuesday September 4 until Friday, September 8. Tickets are on sale from Oztix. One-night tickets start from $51, with rainbow passes, valid for four nights of live music. from $91. Visit bigsound.org.au
NEARBY NOISE
If you haven't bought a pass to BIGSOUND but want to dip your toe in and catch some great emerging acts, there are several unofficial performances taking place in venues around Fortitude Valley this week. All the events listed below are free, not officially affiliated with the event and open to all.
GOING UNDERGROUND AT BIGSOUND
Music management and promotions company Footstomp will be hosting a free series of showcases at Greaser, on Brunswick St, on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 5-8pm, with Dirty Hearts, Tia Gostelow, Sabrina Lawrie and The Steele Syndicate among the 15 acts playing across the three days.
Mackay-born singer Tia Gostelow will play official and unofficial shows during BIGSOUND. Picture: Liam KidstonSource:News Corp Australia
West End record store Jet Black Cat Music and Bloodhound Corner Bar are joining forces to present three days of live music, starting at 5pm Monday. Acts playing between now and Wednesday night include Gabriella Cohen, Jade Imagine, Nice Biscuit, Daggy Man, Olympia, IV League, Emerson Snowe and East Brunswick All Girls' Choir.
HORROR MY FRIEND
Wednesday, 3.20pm, The Foundry, Thursday, 3pm, Barbara
Adelaide three-piece Horror My Friend were a standout at last year's BIGSOUND and although they're not playing any official showcases this year, they'll be playing a couple of free shows in the Valley anyway. The band draw from a broad palette of distortion-heavy '90s influences — think Sonic Youth's noise rock, The Pixies' loud-soft dynamic and early Magic Dirt — and add their own idiosyncratic flair.
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Q: Confusion about my QuickSort algorithm & Mergesort algorithm I am currently conducting empirical studies to evaluate the run-time complexities of the quicksort, and mergesort algorithms. To do this I run a random number generator that stores whatever amount of numbers I specify in a binary file. The ranges of those numbers are from 1-1,000,000.I then run tests of each algorithm starting from 100,000 numbers, incrementing by 50,000 each time, until 1,000,000 numbers are sorted on the last run. So 20 tests each. I have successfully completed each algorithm but my results are kind of puzzingly. This is a graph showing my results.

I understand that quicksort has a worst case  of O(n2) time, but typically O(n·lg(n)) time. Mergesort has Θ(n·lg(n)) time.
Also I would like to note that when I started the timer I just used clock() from time.h, and calculated the time elapsed. I started my timer one line of code before I called my sorting function.
What I dont understand is how my graph shows mergesort is always double the time, and reaching triple the time to sort numbers compared to quicksort.
My only thought is that for my mergesort algorithm every time I divide my array in half I use malloc to create a new integer array for each half. Of course this means a large amount of calls are made to malloc considering the number sizes I am sorting.
int* mergeSort(int* nums, int size){

int* left;
    int* right;
int middle = size/2;

if(size <= 1)
    return nums;

split(nums, size, &left, &right, middle);

//I dont understand why the code below wouldnt work in place of the split()
//when i run it, in main, nothing gets printed out. I guess i lose my pointer to the beginning of my array.
//left = nums;
//right = nums+middle;

left = mergeSort(left, middle);
right = mergeSort(right, size - middle);

merge(nums,left,right,middle,size - middle);
free(left);
free(right);
    return nums;
}

void split(int* nums, int size, int** left, int** right, int middle){

int *lft = (int*) malloc ((sizeof(int) * middle));
int *rght = (int*) malloc ((sizeof(int) * size - middle));
    int mid = middle;
    int upMid = size - middle;
int i;
for(i=0; i < mid; i++)
    lft[i] = nums[i];
for(i=0; i < upMid; i++)
    rght[i] = nums[i+middle];
    *left = lft;
    *right = rght;
}

void merge(int* num, int* left, int* right, int sizeLeft, int sizeRight){

int i,j,k,n;

i=j=k=0;
n=sizeLeft + sizeRight;

while(k < n){
    if(i< sizeLeft){
        if(j<sizeRight){
            insert(num,left,right,&i,&j,&k);
        }
        else{
            append(num, left, sizeLeft, &i, &k);
        }
    }
    else{
        append(num,right,sizeRight,&j,&k);
    }
  }
}

void insert(int* num, int* left, int* right, int* i, int* j, int* k){

/*int i,j,k,n;*/

if(left[*i]<right[*j]){
    num[*k] = left[*i];
    (*i)++;
}
else{
    num[*k] = right[*j];
    (*j)++;
    }
 (*k)++;
}

void append(int* num, int* half, int sizeHalf, int* i, int* k){

while(*i < sizeHalf){
    num[*k]= half[*i];
    (*i)++; (*k)++;
 }
}

I would greatly appreciate any feedback on this question of mine, and any advice on maybe making my mergesort function more efficient. Thanks!!

A: I have implemented a merge sort algorithm, you can have a look. I malloc a bak array at the beginning of mergeSort and every merge use the it afterwards.
#include <string>
#include <stdlib.h>

void _mergeSort(int *array, int *bakArray, int len) ;

void mergeSort(int *array, int len)
{
    int *bak = (int *)malloc(sizeof(int)*len) ;
    _mergeSort(array, bak, len) ;
    free(bak) ;
}

void _mergeSort(int *array, int *bakArray, int len)
{
    if (len >= 2) {
        int leftLen = len/2 ;
        _mergeSort(array, bakArray, leftLen) ;
        _mergeSort(array+leftLen, bakArray, len-leftLen) ;
        int *pa = array ;
        int *pb = array+leftLen ;
        int aIndex = 0 ;
        int bIndex = 0 ;
        while (aIndex < leftLen && bIndex < len-leftLen) {
            int a = pa[aIndex] ;
            int b = pb[bIndex] ;
            if (a < b) {
                bakArray[aIndex+bIndex] = a ;
                ++aIndex ;
            } else if (a == b) {
                bakArray[aIndex+bIndex] = a ;
                bakArray[aIndex+bIndex+1] = a ;
                ++aIndex ;
                ++bIndex ;
            } else {
                bakArray[aIndex+bIndex] = b ;
                ++bIndex ;
            }
        }
        if (aIndex < leftLen) {
            memcpy(bakArray+aIndex+bIndex, pa+aIndex, sizeof(int)*(leftLen-aIndex)) ;
        } else if (bIndex < len-leftLen) {
            memcpy(bakArray+aIndex+bIndex, pb+bIndex, sizeof(int)*(len-leftLen-bIndex)) ;
        }
        memcpy(array, bakArray, sizeof(int)*len) ;
    }
}

static const int MaxArraySize = 100 ;
int main()
{
    srand(time(NULL)) ;
    int array[MaxArraySize] ;
    for (int i = 0 ; i < MaxArraySize; ++i) {
        array[i] = rand() % 10000 ;
    }
    mergeSort(array, MaxArraySize) ;
    for (int i = 0 ; i < MaxArraySize; ++i) {
        printf("%d ", array[i]) ;
    }
    printf("\n") ;
    return 0 ;
}

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Flash is Dead, Silverlight is Dead: HTML5 To Rule Them All
David K | November 9, 2011 | Google and Android, iPhone, Windows Phone | 4 Comments
Ok so proprietary isn't working out too well. Adobe released a statement to ZDNet that they are ceasing Flash for mobiles.
Our future work with Flash on mobile devices will be focused on enabling Flash developers to package native apps with Adobe AIR for all the major app stores. We will no longer adapt Flash Player for mobile devices to new browser, OS version or device configurations. Some of our source code licensees may opt to continue working on and releasing their own implementations. We will continue to support the current Android and PlayBook configurations with critical bug fixes and security updates.
Flash is nice because it gives you the full desktop experience wherever you are but it's also laggy, crashes and drains batteries. Yeah so what about Silverlight? RIP Silverlight. ZDNet again:
Several of my customer and partner contacts have told me they have heard from their own Microsoft sources over the past couple of weeks that Silverlight 5 is the last version of Silverlight that Microsoft will release. They said they are unsure whether there will be any service packs for it, and they are also not clear on how long Silverlight 5 will be supported by Microsoft.
So HTML5 is going to be the ubiquitous plasma to the blood that runs all operating systems. Well at least we can stop talking about how good/bad Flash is and move back to software companies providing the best tools and optimizing users experiences. And yes, this is mobile Flash but as the mobile world continues to pick up steam it's hard to imagine that developers continue to embrace it as it's a shrinking audience so this marks the beginning of the end of Flash.
This also aligns with Microsoft's movements in Windows 8 where Flash will not work in the Metro/tablet Internet Explorer to optimize battery life and performance…
Anyway, your thoughts?
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Chris Leiter	 November 9, 2011
Flash is not nice. It's clunky, sl
Flash is not nice. It's clunky, slow, and unresponsive in a mobile browser. It was never meant to be TOUCHED. HTML5 supports touch extremely well and is fast, lean and allows for great device interaction. Silver light was doomed before they even launched it in browser plugin form.
I say thank you to adobe and ms for ditching these formats.
Bryan J	 November 9, 2011
Silverlight is more than just a technology for the web. It's the official way to develop apps for Windows Phone (which no one doubts MS is heavily invested in) and it's a first class toolset for windows 8. (that makes it more integrated in Windows 8 than it is in Windows 7) There is a ton of technology built for business apps in Silverlight and consequently a ton of business apps. I say we don't throw our hopes away just yet. Silverlight is one word by the way.
I don't think that Silverlight is going to last very long to be honest – and I liked it a lot when they first released it – have written a few applications with it too – MAYBE it'll stick around as a dev option on the phones, but I don't see it getting much more market penetration on browsers than it already has.
Flash lasted much longer than it should have though.
HTML5 and other similar open standards will prevail. There will always be someone touting a plugin that gets around whatever shortcoming that may be inherent to these open standards (think apps for phones, but in browser context), but as is the case with most Operating systems (which the browser has essentially become), the trend is going away from client side applications and pure web presence to using a simple browser to experience everything. And doing everything without having to rely on plugins to accomplish these things.
"Silver light" = auto correct since it's not a real word, but a name.
I'm probably greatly exaggerating the demise of silverlight here, but it's what I would do.. then again, I'd also ditch Windows' current setup, nuke the registry and tell legacy apps to pound sand.

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Q: Any ideas on why my vector is null in R? I pull a csv into df_spot with no headers, then check the data:
> df_spot$V3 [1] 43.86757 43.86764 43.86761 43.86764 43.86760 43.86761
> df_spot$V4 [1] -108.9588 -108.9588 -108.9588 -108.9588 -108.9588 -108.9588
> df_spot$V5 [1] 8/12/2016 8/12/2016 8/12/2016 8/12/2016 8/12/2016 8/12/2016 Levels: 8/12/2016
> df_spot$V6

[1] 5:40 PM 5:35 PM 5:30 PM 5:25 PM 5:12 PM 5:11 PM
Levels: 5:11 PM 5:12 PM 5:25 PM 5:30 PM 5:35 PM 5:40 PM

All's good! So now I try to add those 4 into a vector:
> tracker_spot <- c(df_spot$v3,df_spot$v4,df_spot$v5,df_spot$v6)
> tracker_spot

NULL
Uhh, how did it become NULL???
> mode(df_spot$V3)
[1] "numeric"
> mode(df_spot$V4)
[1] "numeric"
> mode(df_spot$V5)
[1] "numeric"
> mode(df_spot$V6)
[1] "numeric"

I check mode's and all are numeric, any ideas??
Thanks in advance!

A: R is case sensitive. If your vector is called, e.g., df_spot$V3 with capital V you cannot expect to obtain a useful result with df_spot$v3 (with lower case V).
So instead of

tracker_spot <- c(df_spot$v3,df_spot$v4,df_spot$v5,df_spot$v6)

try first with
tracker_spot <- c(df_spot$V3,df_spot$V4,df_spot$V5,df_spot$V6)

Then, if the result is still not what you expect, the other answers and comments will probably guide you towards the solution of your problem.


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«Girls & Boys» es el tercer sencillo tomado del segundo álbum de estudio de Good Charlotte, The Young And The Hopeless. El tema de la canción es que las chicas no les gustan los chicos y sólo los usan por su dinero y sus bienes materiales. El video musical para la canción muestra a personas mayores vestidas y actuando como personas jóvenes. Varios miembros de la banda son mostrados interactúando con las personas mayores (por ejemplo, jugando videojuegos o dando masajes). En el final del vídeo Benji Madden despierta para encontrar a una mujer vieja vistiendo una de sus camisetas y ofreciéndole un tarro de cereal. El vídeo fue grabado en Nueva Zelanda.

Posicionamiento

Listado
 «Girls & Boys»
 «Riot Girl» (acústica)
 «Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous» (acústica)
 «The Young and the Hopeless» (acústica)
 «Girls & Boys» (Video)

Referencias

Sencillos de 2003
Sencillos de Good Charlotte
Sencillos de pop punk
Canciones en inglés

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Five obvious food facts
George Fetherling
There's a kind of book that many antiquarian book dealers put in the category Social History simply for want of a better term. I'm thinking here of lineal descendants of such classic works as Hans Zinsser's Rats, Lice and History (1935) or Self-Love, David Cole Gordon's study of masturbation (1968): ones that bring a whole book's worth of research and thought to bear on a subject that might at first seem so small, trivial or self-evident as to be unworthy of such overkill -- at least until one actually reads them. I don't know quite why, but in recent times most of these seem to have been published by university presses. Random examples include Hotel: An American History by A.K. Sandoval-Strausz (Yale University Press, US$27.50) and Sand: The Never-Ending Story by Michael Welland (University of California Press, US$24.95). Then come the similar books that, while undertaken on much the same terms, are likely to be more substantive only because the topics, though just as narrowly focused perhaps, are plainly a great deal meatier as well. Stephen Miller's The Peculiar Life of Sunday (Yale, US$27.95), a thoughtful survey of changing fashions in how the Christian Sabbath is observed, may be a perfect instance. I anticipate the same sort of breadth of reference from Civility: A Cultural History by Benet Davetian (University of Toronto Press, $39.95).
What seems to me a new twist on the above type of publishing is the number of books about food and drink that operate on the same premise. Bacon, A Love Story: A Salty Survey of Everybody's Favorite Meat by Heather Lauer, "a lifelong bacon enthusiast and the creator of the popular Web site BaconUnwrapped.com," is more serious than the title page suggests. Being published by a commercial press (HarperCollins Canada, $22.99) rather than a scholarly one, it is also the exception that proves the rule, for the trend is very much towards, for example, Potato: A History of the Propitious Esculent by John Reader (Yale, US$28) and Squeezed: What You Don't Know about Orange Juice (Yale, US$30).
The most outstanding new book that falls within the boundaries of the trend I'm describing is Pineapple Culture: A History of the Tropical and Temperate Zones by Gary Y. Okihiro (University of California Press, US$24.95). Outstanding but odd. It is actually the second part of a proposed trilogy whose first volume was entitled Island World: A History of Hawai'i and the United States, and it is a straightforward high-octane condemnation of European colonialism, global capitalism and other political pandemics of western origin. What makes it odd is Okihiro's prose. The effects of his tin ear are all the more jarring in a book from the University of California Press whose editorial aims are generally of the highest design even in the extensive list of strictly academic titles they publish alongside their general-interest ones.
His style isn't particularly dense but only awkward, as when he writes: "The romance of pineapples blossomed from a passion for a fruit with character, with attributes that distinguished it from other exotic, tropical fruits and objects of desire. That hankering, of course, was a human creation, which imputed natures to the plant and fruit, at first for Europeans as a rare and tasty reward of status and empire and, more recently, as a convenient and healthy product of industry and modernity." That makes 11 prepositional phrases in a row. He summarises: "Human hands even shaped the fruit's so-called innate, native qualities." To this diction he often adds some slightly anachronistic turns of phrase. When he writes of "Leading African Americans, including the oft-contending W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington..." he means that Du Bois and Washington were rivals. But none of this detracts from the work's interest (a secondary interest, admittedly) as a food book.
Those of us who remember the Cold War recall the accusations of evil levelled against the United Fruit Company, based in New Orleans, which spared few extremes in protecting its virtual monopoly on bananas from Central America. The corporation was often implicated in the American government's more cockamamie Latin America policies, including, of course, those related to Cuba. Some researchers have suspected its presence in the plot to kill John F. Kennedy. To soften its image, United Fruit changed its name to United Brands in 1970 and then -- in a PR master stroke -- to Chiquita Brands in 1984, complete with the cute logo of Chiquita herself, a sort of Latina version of Aunt Jemima.
Okihiro deals with the company because it was also deeply involved in the pineapple trade in South America, where the fruit is thought to have originated (but had already spread quite far north when Christopher Columbus was introduced to it). As Okihiro puts it: "Europeans took the pineapple -- like their trans-Atlantic traffic of America's peoples -- on board their ships as plunder and a prize of empire. Only royalty managed to taste the rare tropical fruit, other than sailors who probably depended upon it (it lasted several weeks before rotting) to ward off scurvy..." But he is more concerned with the Dole fruit interests, as they centre on Hawaii.
Beneath all its rhetoric, Pineapple Culture is a beautifully researched and painstakingly illustrated culinary, social and economic history of the fruit that was long used to symbolise welcome (as with the pineapple motifs commonly found on old cast-iron fences, front doors and newel posts) but is now, in the author's view, an emblem of neo-colonialism instead. At the heart of his book is the idea that the pineapple lobby in the U.S. played a key role in the overthrow of Queen Lili'uokalani and the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1893 and in creation of the U.S. Territory of Hawaii five years later and, moreover, that these events were merely symbols of a larger evil. To quote Okihiro once again: "Tropical products, including sugar and fruits, were systematically planted in the tropics and harvested and conveyed to the temperate zone, along with Indian and later African and Asian specimens and workers, in the course of empire. Unintended but nonetheless isolated and conquered, like their native carriers, were the diseases and infirmities of the tropics that invaded ill-suited white bodies in the field and in the homeland."
As for other observations one might make about recent and forthcoming books on food and drink, well, they come from trends within the subjects themselves. Here are some examples.
Obvious fact #1: People still buy the type of old-fashioned cookbook that is valued as a repository of recipes and general instruction. Anytime such a book is, by some process of silent consensus, accepted as a standard, as seems to happen once or twice every generation, it can go on selling almost forever and thus make a fortune. The Joy of Cooking, which first appeared in 1931, has been in print uninterruptedly since 1936 and is still financially vigorous. So too Prosper Montagné's Larousse Gastronomique (1938) and its illegitimate daughter, Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking (1963). Publishers live in hope of stumbling on another such one. Hence the cover of the brand-new paperback of The Vegetable Bible by Sophie Grigson (HarperCollins Canada, $35.95) touts it as "the classic cookbook every kitchen must have." The fact that such a claim is made for a book that doesn't concern itself with animal products hints at obvious fact #2.
Obvious fact #2: People in the west are trying to embrace a healthier diet. If the change saves money or does less damage to the environment, so much the better. This explains such books as, for example, Eat Cheap But Eat Well (Wiley, $22.95) by an African American television chef, Charles Mattocks, in collaboration with Mary Hunt. It also accounts for such works as Jackie Newgent's Big Green Cookbook (Wiley, $29.95 -- "hundreds of planet-pleasing recipes & tips"). These same impulses can be expressed at many different levels. There is advocacy journalism such as Swindled: The Dark History of Food Fraud, From Poisoned Candy to Counterfeit Coffee (Princeton University Press, US$26.95) by Bee Wilson, a British food writer whose forename is memorable as her previous book was The Hive: The Story of the Honeybee and Us. Higher up the publishing food-chain (forgive me please) can come a work such as Fresh: A Perishable History by Susanne Friedberg (Harvard University Press, US$27.95), a study of how marketing as well as refrigeration have changed our assumptions about what we eat. Such lines of enquiry can also lead to a philosophical work as important as Sins of the Flesh: A History of Ethical Vegetarian Thought by Rod Preece (UBC Press, $29.95). Even a straightforward ready reference such as The Atlas of Food: Who Eats What, Where, and Why (Erik Millstone and Tim Lang -- University of California Press, US$19.95) shows how, now more so than ever, all food is politics taken internally.
Obvious fact #3 is tension between two abstractions -- the Neighbourhood and the Outside World -- as seen from the vantage point of the dining room table. Locavores are the new pioneers, going backward in time rather than forward in order to counteract the present. An excellent book arising from this phenomenon -- excellent in every way -- is Field Days: A Year of Farming, Eating, and Drinking Wine in California (University of California Press, US$24.95). The author, Jonah Raskin, is a first-rate social historian whose work has centred on how various figures of the American left, from Jack London to Abbie Hoffman, have been shaped by the political cultures they grew up opposing. The new book is part memoir and part reportage dealing with organic farming (and consumption) in northern California. The words are thoughtful and the prose spot on.
If there were any justice in publishing, which there isn't, this story of a year in Sonoma would become as popular as "a year in Provence" was several seasons back. Yet such localism comes at a time of ever-increasing interest in other cuisines, which is to say other cultures as well (for how many of us had a hankering to know more about Thailand, for instance, until Thai food became a western staple in the 1980s?). Books such as The Brazilian Table by Yara Castro Roberts and Richard Roberts (Raincoast, $40) -- a typical expression of the desire to reach out to other cultures by means of the fork -- come in many more varieties than was the case even a few years ago. I've not yet seen a copy of it but am intrigued by what we might hope and expect to be only the fleeting novelty of The Settler's Cookbook: An Immigrant's Memoir of Food and Fusion (Anansi, $29.95). The author is Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, a British writer on human rights and multiculturalism issues, whose family came to the U.K. from Central Africa amid the terrible violence directed at people of Indian ancestry.
Obvious fact #4: The culinary war between the French and everyone else drags on. According to Au Revoir to All That: Food, Wine and the Death of France by Michael Steinberger (Doubleday Canada, $32.95), the French are losing, big time. Yet they will gain a bit from Nora Ephron's film Julie & Julia, which appears more or less simultaneously with a new paperback of Backstage with Julia: My Years with Julia Child (Wiley, $17.99) by Nancy Verde Barr, Child's long-time assistant and comprador. Barr recalls how, from Child's very first television show in 1963, "even viewers who would never make friends with their stoves tuned in religiously to catch the antics of this Lucille Ball-like character with her rolling pin." For Child was indeed a caution. "I laughed out loud," Barr writes, "when the long, slim baguette of French bread she planned to slice for onion soup slumped lazily in the middle when she held it up, so she declared it pathetically lacking in character and flung it over her shoulder." It's well to remember how widespread the fascination with French cuisine was a generation ago, playing a large role in the imaginations of even those cooks and food writers not primarily associated with it. This was the case for example with M.F.K. Fisher (whose most recent posthumous book is M.F.K. Fisher among the Pots and Pans: Celebrating Her Kitchens, edited by her biographer Joan Reardon-University of California Press, US$24.95).
In somewhat the same way that philatelists, long after the British Empire had passed, continued to classify stamps as "British" and "Foreign" because it was too complicated to start over with a new system, so is much western gastronomy, especially of the more scholarly sort, still struggling on with the French. Cooking, The Quintessential Art by Hervé This, a chemist, and Pierre Gagnaire, a restaurateur, began life as a French-language work but reappears now in an English translation by M.B. DeBevoise (University of California Press, US$27.50). Similarly, Anthea Bell's English translation of Histoire naturelle et morale de la nourriture by Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat has been updated and expanded as A History of Food (Wiley, $37.95). The adversarial nature of many people's relationship to French cuisine will probably be underscored (I haven't seen the book yet) in Knives at Dawn: American's Quest for Culinary Glory at the Legendary Bocuse d'Or by Andrew Friedman (Simon & Schuster Canada, $34).
The fifth and final obvious fact is that both the snobbery and the understanding that attach to French wine are probably greater than that which attach to French food or, if not greater, certainly different in fundamental ways. There is evidently a perennial market for books such as WineWise: Your Complete Guide to Understanding, Selecting, and Enjoying Wine by Steven Koplan, Brian H. Smith and Michael A. Weiss (Wiley, $32.95). Wine also evokes a kind of scholarship that is calmer, more congenial and less contentious than much of that which is associated with food. A finely edited example is Pioneering American Wine: Writings of Nicholas Herbemont, Master Viticulturist (University of Georgia Press, US$29.95). Herbemont (1771-1839) was one of the American pioneers in the field. Soon I hope to see the forthcoming paperback reprints of two books by the wine writer George M. Taber: In Search of Bacchus and To Cork or Not to Cork: Tradition, Romance, Science, and the Battle for the Wine Bottle, both from Simon & Schuster Canada at $16 each.--George Fetherling
George Fetherling's novel Walt Whitman's Secret will be published early next year (Random House Canada).
An excerpt of Edible Action, a book that examines how food movements can address the ills of an unjust economic system and mobilize people against it.
The best of farm fresh
There is a mentality to farming that defies reason to an ever-growing urbanite majority whose ties to land and food have been broken.
Mad fruit finding
In The Fruit Hunters, Adam Leith Gollner travels around the world searching for the most wondrous, delicious, and exotic fruits.


Steinway 1098 46" Player Upright Piano Mahogany QRS PNO3. A true heirloom-grade upright piano. The handsome lines, tone, feel and workmanship of the Steinway 1098 make this one of the most desired pianos for the home. This well maintained instrument is on the showroom floor for your auditioning. The included QRS PNOmation player system transforms this instrument into a unique home entertainment piece. Handsome mahogany cabinet in beautiful condition. Handcrafted in New York in 1977, this Steinway 1098 was privately owned. Includes wireless QRS PNO. This piano features an existing QRS PNOmation CD player system. Unit, transforming this piano into an smartphone-ready, wireless smart home entertainment device. Listen to beautiful piano music anytime you want, produced live at your piano with real moving keys. An included speaker gives you live vocal and instrumental accompaniment. Listen to your piano playing his own piano parts, with Billy Joel actually singing along! It brings piano ownership to a totally new and engaging level. You're going to love it. About the Steinway 1098. At forty-six and one half inches high, Steinway? S"Professional" upright has been widely used in the most demanding institutional settings for many decades. Its Accelerated Action is amazingly responsive, due in part to a unique design feature that uses the force of gravity to bring the hammers back to their rest position? Which is something found only in Steinway vertical pianos. It also features Steinway? Extremely popular in conservatories and schools of music, this is a beautiful and impressive piano that will enrich the lives of its owners for generations. Height: 46 1/2" (118 cm). Width: 58 3/8" (148 cm). Depth: 25" (64 cm). Weight: 480 pounds (218 kg). Includes CT-RI-NYC-Boston-Most of MA. New England's Piano Destination, Since 1929. Read about our history.. How do I ask a question about this piano? Desktop Computers: Use the'Ask a question' link in the'Questions and Answers' area at the bottom of this page. Call or text us! The item "Steinway 1098 46" Player Upright Piano Mahogany QRS PNO3″ is in sale since Wednesday, March 21, 2018. This item is in the category "Musical Instruments & Gear\Pianos, Keyboards & Organs\Pianos\Upright Pianos". The seller is "carusopianos" and is located in New London, Connecticut. This item can be shipped to United States.
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Ladybug Quilting: No more Xmas Requests!!!!!!
We worked out a size; it was going to be a Bassinet size.
Ok I can do that, Still 3 weeks to go.
The next day she asked could I make it larger as she would like it to go to her first bed as well, Bugger.
The Brief was: pink and mauve and something girlie!
Where the Wind Blows by Melanie from Melly and Me .
Then I went online to order backing at Under the Mulberry Tree and found that they have it on special for $2 a fat quarter, $8 a Metre.
So I ordered a Backing, and some more Fat Quarters to put back in the stash, for the next baby quilt I make.
It looks great. I love the narrow sashing. What quilting pattern will you use?
I love it and have complete confidence you'll finish it.
Im trying to complete 3 quilts in the next two weeks because Im completely insane.
You can do it. I know you can. I too have just started a quilt, that I want to have done before Christmas, and working at the Post Office, these next 2 weeks will be our busiest as well. But I will get mine done too. I have 2 Thursdays between now and then that I am off, and DH is working that I can get it done without him knowing, because it is for him.


After taking a few photographs whilst visiting a National Garden Scheme garden last summer, Corinna Potter decided to submit her favourite into the photography competition. Just a few weeks later, she was announced 2017's winner and received a once-in-a-lifetime prize.
Gardening is definitely a family passion for Corinna, who has been a self-employed gardener for eight years and has transformed her own garden on the Isle of Wight into a horticultural paradise.
We sat down with Corinna to discover the story behind her winning shot, as well as to find out about her afternoon with Mary Berry.
How did you find out about the National Garden Scheme?
My mum introduced me to the National Garden Scheme. We used to visit gardens together at the weekends, when I was living in Kent as a teenager.
Are you a regular garden visitor?
Since moving to the Isle of Wight I have enjoyed many afternoons with friends visiting the gardens that open on the island, and return each year to some much loved gardens.
Do you have a favourite National Garden Scheme garden?
On the island we like to make an annual visit to Badminton, a garden in Carrisbrook with a beautiful natural stream flowing through it. I visited The Old Rectory Kingston for the first time last year too, which is a stunning garden, and is actually where I took my competition photo.
What do you enjoy most about the National Garden Scheme?
Being a keen gardener I know how much work and dedication it takes to create and maintain a garden. The work that owners put into opening their gardens for charity is immense, and to be allowed to visit them and enjoy the beauty of their creations is a joy. Knowing that the money raised on the day goes towards such great causes definitely rounds off the perfect afternoon out too.
There is also so much inspiration to be found in other people's gardens. Recently my friend and I visited a National Garden Scheme garden that had some beautiful Clematis 'Princess Diana'. And the first thing we did when we got home, was order some for our own gardens!
What inspired you to enter the photography competition?
When I visited The Old Rectory Kingston on the Isle of Wight, it was a beautiful, hot sunny day and the daisy field was just amazing. Originally, I just took the photo to remind me of the wonderful view and enjoyable day. But when I got home and looked at the photo on a larger screen I was surprised how clear and lovely the scene looked. By coincidence, being a bee keeper, there is a little bee on a daisy in the bottom right hand corner which made me smile.
When I looked online for the date of the next garden to visit I noticed the photography competition. The photo evoked the memories of lovely summer days and I decided to send it in just because I liked it and thought it was quite a nice photo!
How did you feel when you discovered you had won the photography competition?
It was a surreal time for me when George, the CEO of the National Garden Scheme, phoned to say I had won. Firstly I wondered how he knew I visited National Garden Scheme gardens because I'd completely forgot I had entered the competition at all!
But when he said I had won the competition I was stunned and exhilarated to think that whilst I liked taking photos to look back on and remember enjoyable times, other people had got pleasure from the photo too.
For your prize, you spent the afternoon with Mary Berry. How was your afternoon together?
Myself, my two friends and my step-daughter went together to spend the afternoon with Mary. Mary welcomed us with afternoon tea, including delicious lemon drizzle cake, scones and sandwiches. She even packed a little goody bag of cakes for my husband when she found out it was his birthday that day!
After our afternoon tea, we all strolled around the garden together. Mary explained her plans for the space for the Summer ahead, including what looked like a very impressive perennial border. As a gardener myself, it was great to share some ideas with Mary as we wandered around together.
What would be your top tips for amateur photographers entering the competition?
My only advice would be take photos of plants or garden views that you would like to look back at, and that remind you of the lovely gardens you've visited this summer.
If you're feeling inspired, there's still plenty of time to enter our 2018 photography competition.
Visit a National Garden Scheme garden and submit your entry before 28th August 2018, and you could win a collection of garden tools worth over £950 from our sponsors, WOLF-Garten. Whatsmore the winning photograph from the Fantastic Flowers category will be featured in BBC Gardeners' World Magazine's 2019 calendar.
To enter visit our website, read the guidelines and submit your photograph online.


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The Eyes of Islam Are on Bosnia
The US could gain credibility throughout the Muslim world by ending the killing
By Nasir Shansab and Ira Straus Nasir Shansab, a writer and social critic from Afghanistan, is president of Democracy International. Ira Straus is editor of World Democracy News.
DESPITE - or perhaps because of - the Bush administration's slogan of cautious attention to national interests, the United States is actually placing vital national diplomatic interests at risk by insufficient action in Bosnia, and the US is missing out on a unique opportunity to advance its national interests.
The entire Islamic world is watching to see if America will intervene on behalf of the Bosnians. Middle Eastern diplomats have openly attacked the United Nations resolution on Bosnia as inadequate. This is only the tip of an iceberg of a sentiment that is fast-developing in the Islamic world.
The Muslims of Bosnia are not only the most aggrieved group in the former Yugoslavia, they are also the most democratic group. They alone in the former Yugoslavia ran a pluralistic democratic government - until the Serbs sabotaged it. Of the leaders of the former Yugoslav republics, all are recycled communists except one: Alija Izetbegovic of Bosnia, who was never a communist.
This is an opportunity for the West to intervene on behalf of relatively democratic Muslims, against undemocratic Christians. Since such opportunities to show its bona fides are likely to be rare, it is damaging to American diplomacy to pass them by.
Thus far, the conclusion of the Middle Eastern press has been that the US will never intervene on behalf of Muslims against Christians. The plight of Bosnia tells them that the "new world order" is meant only for Western Christians, not for themselves.
The Gulf war liberation of Kuwait, incidentally, is not seen as an intervention on behalf of Muslims; it is seen as Western intervention for oil and against an Islamic Iraq that was too powerful.
If America did intervene on behalf of the Bosnian Muslims, it would gain sympathy across the Middle East. Muslims everywhere would regain hope that the world order which is led by the US is not directed against them, but really has a modicum of regard for Muslims as well as for Westerners.
IN the absence of serious American and Western intervention, the arms embargo against the former Yugoslavia serves to perpetuate the gross imbalance of power, in which the Serbs of the Yugoslav Army control the heavy weaponry. Since this imbalance is on the side of the forces that are committing the greatest apparent atrocities, it creates a moral vacuum. Outside powers are sucked into this vacuum.
If there is not a concerted international intervention to stop the slaughter in Bosnia, a neighboring power will intervene instead. Then other neighbors will intervene against it in turn, and the Balkan conflict will escalate into a wider regional conflict.
At present, Turkey and Iran are threatening to intervene. Saudi Arabia has offered massive funding for such an intervention. Turkey says a couple of divisions are ready. Iran is organizing volunteers.
A Turkish or Iranian intervention would transform the Balkan war into a war of civilizations between the Islamic Middle East and the Christians. It would be an irretrievable disaster for American diplomacy, setting the Islamic world much more bitterly against the West than before. It would create a possibility of the Balkan war spilling over into large-scale terrorism in Europe and America, and into a full-scale war between the Middle East and the West.
To head this off, the West need only intervene promptly and in a concerted way to protect the Bosnian Muslims, making full use of NATO and of the auspices of the United Nations. Instead of disaster, we would then reap better relations throughout the Middle East. From the standpoint of the national interest, the choice is clear.
Opinion The case for military intervention in Syria
Opinion Protecting the innocent – from Bosnia to China
Opinion London's bridge to European Muslims


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Q: Form get reloaded on submit reactjs When I submit my form it gets reloaded, but when no file is selected, it doesn't get reload, just show me an error message 'No File Uploaded'.
It only gets reloaded when I submit the file.
I already used the e.preventDefault() to prevent reloading but it doesn't work.
Component Code
import React, { Fragment, useState } from 'react'
import axios from 'axios'

const FileUpload = () => {
    const [file, setFile] = useState('');
    const [filename, setFilename] = useState('Choose File')
    const [uploadedFile, setUploadedFile] = useState({})

    const onChange = (e) => {
        setFile(e.target.files[0]);
        setFilename(e.target.files[0].name);
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    const onSubmit = async (e) => {
        e.preventDefault();
        const formData = new FormData();
        formData.append('file', file);

        try {
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                headers: {
                    'Content-Type': 'multipart/form-data'
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            const { fileName, filePath } = res.data;

            setUploadedFile({ fileName, filePath });
            console.log(uploadedFile);
        } catch (err) {
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    return (
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export default FileUpload

Anyone can please help me with this.

A: The problem with this code is in the async event handler,
preventDefault needs to be called synchronously to have
any effect at all.
You should call e.persist() before e.preventDefault()

A: Instead of using submit button and form onSubmit You can just use a normal button and bind the submit handler to onClick
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                {/* <button type="button" onClick={onSubmit} value="Upload" className="btn btn-primary w-100" /> */}
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There has been a lot of comment recently about apparent failures under the PFI. Now we are being asked to invest - as taxpayers or pension policyholders - in Partnerships UK, which will put more time and money into PFI deals. Is this a good idea, or are we throwing good money after bad?


Eastside coach Kent Johnson said Terrell Bradley can make plays just about any way one can imagine. After Friday night, there's really no need to imagine any more.
Coach Kent Johnson said Terrell Bradley can make plays just about any way one can imagine. After Friday night, there's really no need to imagine any more.
The Eastside senior scored three times, all in spectacular fashion, in the Rams' 42-23 victory against Ocala Forest at Citizens Field.
"It was a lot of fun," Bradley said.
"Fun" can be described as an 86-yard punt return in the first quarter, a 37-yard pass from Harold Hoskins late in the second and a 38-yard run early in the third. In all, without touching the ball in the fourth quarter, Bradley accounted for 40 rushing yards, 60 receiving yards and the "did you see that?" special teams touchdown.
"I made the first man miss and then I saw nothing but daylight," Bradley said about the return that made the home fans their rowdiest. "It was like Christmas."
He also punted four times for a 42-yard average, as the Rams improved to 2-1 (1-0 in District 6-4A).
Oh yeah, colleges such as Ball State, South Florida and Florida Atlantic showing interest like him as a cornerback.
"He does a lot for us," Johnson said of Bradley, who also is a backup quarterback. "It was a big night for him."
Also finding himself on the highlight reel was junior quarterback Harold Hoskins.
He completed 9-of-16 passes for 154 yards and two touchdowns. His best work came on Eastside's first offensive series where he completed 4-of-5 passes for 45 yards with the incompletion coming on a drop.
Topping it off, Hoskins, a former tight end, also carried nine times for 42 yards with a 4-yard touchdown run that capped the opening drive.
"He's maturing each week," Bradley said. "He's coming along better. We just keep encouraging him, and he showed a lot of good things out there.
"He's really growing up as a quarterback."
Likewise, the Rams' defense was steady much of the night, holding the Wildcats (3-1, 0-1) without an offensive touchdown until 2:16 remained in the third quarter. Eastside also was stout against the run all game, limiting previously unbeaten Forest to 77 yards on 28 carries (3.6 ypc).
"I'm pretty happy with the win," Johnson said. "We're getting better each game."


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Media headlines are dominated by the prospect of regional water wars. Clearly, climate change poses several threats to human security. In particular, hydro-climatic hazards such as droughts and floods have a considerable capacity to exacerbate social tensions, intra- and inter-state conflict.
Still, cooperation often trumps conflict. There are surprisingly few peer-reviewed studies rigorously addressing links between climate change, hydrological systems, conflict and security. CLICO will fill this gap in knowledge over the social dimensions of climate change, by looking whether hydro-climatic hazards intensify social tensions and conflicts in the Mediterranean, Middle East and Sahel, or if they provide a catalyst for cooperation and peace.
The project will examine why some countries and communities are more vulnerable to droughts, floods and related conflict, and what types of policies and institutions are necessary to ensure adaptation, security and peace in the face of global and regional hydro-climatic change. The project will mobilize 13 research teams from Europe, North Africa, Sahel and the Middle East and will bring together for the first time some of the world's leading researchers in water resource, vulnerability, and peace and security studies.
Ten cases of hydro-conflicts will be studied ranging from Niger, Sudan, the Jordan and Nile basins to Cyprus, Italy and the Sinai desert. A large dataset – the first of its kind – of hydro-conflicts in the Mediterranean, Middle East and Sahel will be regressed against climatic, hydrological and socio-economic variables. Policies and institutions at the national, international and transboundary levels will be investigated and their ability to face climate change and ensure human security will be assessed. Project results will be synthesised in a report that will identify potential security hotspots in the region and provide fresh policy ideas for promoting peace and security under changing hydro-climatic conditions.


Hi guys. Stuck between which CPU cooler to get. I have about £45 as budget. Swayed more for the phanteks. Going for a decent overclock too. Open to other suggestions. Going on a 4670k.
Judging by reviews ive seen it performs pretty good although I may put the included fans in the front of my case and put all black ones on the heatsink to keep my black and red theme going.


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NON-NUCLEAR GENERATION POWER PLANT TECHNICIAN: What will you do?


sailboat. : Monthly Favourites: January.
Last year I set myself a challenge to do a monthly favourites post every single month and to my surprise I managed to keep it up! I wonder if I can make it two years in a row, time will tell, but I'm going to give it a good go!
it this way, I haven't found the best way to apply it and I wouldn't reach for it on mornings where I only have a short time to get ready. The risk of it not applying just right would be too high but I'm going to keep working with it and I think it just needs a heavier moisturiser underneath.
and I've been using it a lot this month. It has quite an antiseptic-esque scent but it's one that I really quite like. I don't find it drying at all which is brilliant because I hate that tight-skin feeling that some products leave. Do I like it as much as my Neal's Yard Chamomile cleanser? No, but so far it's coming in a close second and it's more budget friendly!
An old favourite of mine is the Neal's Yard Vitamin E & Avocado moisturiser. I'd stopped using this in favour of a different night cream and my skin went haywire, I think there's something about this cream that my skin really likes and I definitely won't stray from this again. It's rich but it sinks in quickly and really nourishes any dryness on my skin without making other areas oily at all. I'm feeling another Neal's Yard order is on the horizon. I can't get enough of their products and I have quite a long list of things I'd love to try.
Rose D'Or blush from Bourjois has become my blush of the month in every way possible. In fact, my blush drawer hasn't been opened since I got this beauty that looks ever so pretty sat on my dressing table. This is very pigmented and I was wrong when I said in my previous Bourjois blush post that I could use the shimmers with a heavier hand. I can't, and I end up looking like a clown if I do. With a light hand though this gives the prettiest rosy pink flush with a golden sheen. Honestly I love love love this colour and can't say enough good things about it.
My lips have been so chapped lately that I've only been reaching for one lipstick, which is Baby Pink from Revlon's ColorBurst range. It's quite sheer but it does give a pretty light pink colour to the lips while also being quite glossy at the same time. I haven't found this drying at all and it applies so beautifully on to my less than perfect lips that you would never know how horrible they really are. I'm impressed and I definitely need to explore more of the ColorBurst line, from what I can see there are a lot of beautiful colours and I just adore the formula.
I'm sure my last two favourites for this month won't be a surprise and yes, they are still novel to me. I have no idea why MAC does this to me but it does and it's strange! I have to say though, I did have a lot of MAC lipsticks on my wishlist but they just seem SO expensive now after the VAT increase that I think I might knock quite a few of them off and look at other brands instead. Anyway, that's beside the point. Vintage Selection paint pot is just beautiful and I've been reaching for it every day. This keeps my eye shadow on longer than any primer I've tried so I'm very impressed. That combined with its beautiful colour ensures this will be a favourite product of mine for many months to come!
Lastly I couldn't not include Rose Ole Highlight Powder in my favourites because it's just beautiful. This was quite expensive but I'm sure it's going to take a super long time to get anywhere near to finishing it because a little goes a long way. I have never owned a highlighter before so I can't compare this to any other brands but I adore the warm sheen this gives my cheekbones and I use it every single day I wear make up, without fail.
Did you discover any gems during the month of January? I'd love to know what your favourites were!
loving the closeup photos of the products such pretty colors!
I love your reviews. After I read your one on ELF mineral lipsticks i ordered them and could not be happier! You use such accurate descriptions!
You've made me really want to try that MAC paintpot, it looks so lovely! And I love Benefit's Thrrrob blusher at the minute, I just love the candy pink colour of it on my cheeks and how pigmented it is!
I love your favourites posts, the photos are always so gorgeous.
I use paint pots every day as primer, arent they maazing! I think I'll have to try this one though!
I love these post, I'm glad you're keeping them up this year. I'm always a bit iffy when it comes to make-up/creams etc and it's always nice to read a review on them that won't be bias!
I really want to start doing my own monthly favourites posts as well but it's so hard to remember!
That paintpot looks gorgeous! Beautiful natural products. Lovely!
your blog really makes me want to spend money!
Thanks for the tips, nice reviews!
MAC always manages to woo me in,and I idolise everything I buy( Probs cause I would cry for spending the money if i didnt enjoy them) Aha!
I love the monthly favourites, more inspiration on new things to try! The VAT increase is really hurting though. Pout Polish for £4.29? Gah!
I love reading any of your make-up posts - they're so genuine and helpful. I ordered some ELF products which you have featured which I received today and will be putting into good use :). Also, went into John Lewis in Abdn and found that they stock some of the Neal's Yard range - I think the night cream may have been there.


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Restoring the River, A Little At a Time: A New L.A. River Trail Segment in the Valley
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Jason Goldman
Dr. Jason G. Goldman is a freelance science writer covering animal behavior, wildlife biology, conservation, and ecology. He has written for Scientific American, Los Angeles Magazine, The Washington Post, The Guardian, the BBC, Conservation Magazine, and elsewhere. He hosts "The Wild Life" podcast and is co-editor of Science Blogging: The Essential Guide (Yale University Press). He's obsessed with mountain lions and has been called a raccoon avenger.
Future woodland along the Yaroslavsky Greenway Trail | Photo: Jason Goldman
At first glance, the L.A. River seems less a river than a glorified rain gutter. Designed to shuttle water off the urban landscape and into the Pacific as fast as possible, much of the once-mighty Los Angeles River was bound by concrete following a massive 1938 flood that washed away thousands of properties and claimed the lives of more than 140 people. Conservationists are now working on restoring what little riverside habitat still remains.
In the valley, a half-mile stretch of river between Coldwater Canyon and Whitsett Avenue has just been designated the "Zev Yaroslavsky L.A. River Greenway Trail," thanks to a partnership between Community Conservation Solutions, a local non-profit, and L.A. County, which owns the land. The half-mile of trail connects two previously existing segments of L.A. River Greenway Trail, creating a five-mile corridor along the river for the public to explore.
"The overall plan was to do something that's not been done on the river," Community Conservation Solutions President Esther Feldman explains as she walks along the unpaved trail, "which is to use native plants not just as a landscaping tool, but to really recreate habitats that were here one hundred years ago." In other words, the goal was to restore habitats that would have existed alongside the river before it was channelized.
To do it, Feldman and her team first had to gain the support of local homeowners and businesses, something she says wasn't difficult, especially considering what was here before. For one thing, there was no access to the area. It was closed off with an ugly fence and barbed wire, and besides a few exotic plants, the soil was pretty barren.
She had to secure all the necessary permits and ensure that the trail complied with all relevant regulations. There were engineering considerations, for example, to ensure that the soil would not erode into the river. There were hydrological considerations, to ensure that rainwater could still flow into the river as it's supposed to.
Five years later, this half-mile stretch of riverside habitat is the home of some 3,000 trees, shrubs, and flowers, all native to the San Fernando Valley. There are California walnut trees and western sycamores, coast live oaks and valley oaks, and of course toyons a.k.a. California holly, the plant from which Hollywood drew its name. Around the trees are native bunchgrasses, California sagebush, bigpod ceanothus, and other species common in chaparral and coastal sage scrub habitats. There are also plants that have come here on their own, like native jimsonweed, whose white flowers are sometimes known as the "devil's trumpet."
Native flowers along the Zaroslavsky Greenway Trail | Photo: Jason Goldman
While the focus of the project is on restoration and recreation, Feldman's team has paid attention to education and interpretation as well. Some newly planted trees are accompanied by rocks with their names carved into them, and metal artwork installed along the fence features native wildlife, subtly reminding folks what animals might be found nearby.
The trail has been open for less than a week, and joggers, cyclists, and folks walking their dogs are already taking advantage. By some wonderful accident – or perhaps some clever engineering almost a century ago – it's almost impossible to tell that you're in the middle of one of the country's busiest cities, a block away from one of the city's busiest business districts, with Ventura Boulevard a stone's throw away. Instead of hearing cars, the sound of chattering birds fills the air.
It may not be the wild river it once was, but it's not entirely sterile either. This version of the river represents a sort of compromise. Nature is here, even if it doesn't look like it. Cliff swallows swoop and soar over the water, chasing after tasty bugs, while lizards bask in the sunshine. One pair of red tailed hawks has already nested on the trail, and it won't be long before the raccoons and possums find safe refuge here as well. It may not be much aesthetically, but the river still supports life.
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While a half mile of restored river won't provide a suitable habitat for a black bear or, say, a mountain lion, Feldman hopes that if there are enough such pockets of habitat sprinkled across the landscape, connectivity for wildlife will improve, at least compared to what came before. While the space from the concrete walls of the river to the encroaching urban development only spans a few dozen feet, it represents a tremendous amount of habitat, especially if you consider that these few dozen feet stretch along the river for miles.
Feldman compares habitat restoration to navigating an ocean liner. Nudge a cruise ship just one degree off its heading, and in a few hours it will be miles off-course on an entirely different trajectory. So too with the river. "It's part of an overall perspective of what does it mean to green an urban area," she says. "In my view, this becomes a model for the remaining thirty miles of the river. Fast forward twenty years, and we've made a really big change."
For the record: A previous version of this article imprecisely described the Yaroslavsky greenway as being part of an uninterrupted five-mile corridor. This statement was added to the author's original text during editing, and we apologize to our readers and to Jason for introducing the error.
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The story of Taylor
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There was an angel by the name of Taylor. She has walked the Earth many, many lifetimes. In one lifetime Taylor was a warrior, a warrior for a greedy country, for a greedy kingdom. She cared not of the agenda. She simply wanted to be a warrior. She wanted to experience blood and battle. She wanted to experience duality and anger. She brought these experiences to her soul, and they remained there for a long, long time.
And in the next lifetime Taylor was a mother who was not so good to her children or her husband. She enjoyed the company of other men. She enjoyed being away from her family. She felt guilty for this, and it weighed heavy upon her. Yet she continued to do it, and in doing so caused much pain and difficulty for her children, and caused her husband to commit suicide, to leave. This was remembered by her soul and carried forth, put into her book of life.
In another lifetime Taylor was a businessman who ran a sweat shop. Taylor took advantage of young people and poor people as cheap labor. And Taylor did not care so much about them but cared only about her pocketbook, about her wealth. Taylor did not share this wealth with others. She did not give to charity but gave only to herself and wanted to build a monument to her immortality by gaining wealth. And this weighed heavy upon her soul and upon her being but she cared not and went forth.
In this lifetime, Taylor was a child of abusive parents. In her early teens she became an alcoholic. She continued this, drinking each day, lowering her vibrations to levels that it is even difficult for us to comprehend. She drank, and she went into darkness. Her vibrations were lowered, and she forgot what love was about. She did not have such a happy life. She blamed her parents. She blamed others that she worked with. Her drinking caused health problems. That created more bitterness within her.
Taylor is now in the Crimson Circle and no longer drinks, for along the way she read an inspirational book. She sat in meetings somewhat like this. She had others lend her a helping hand. She had others hug her and say that they loved her. She had others who took the time to help her understand that all of these feelings of guilt in her being needed to be released, needed to be let go of.
Now along the way Taylor gave up drinking, and Taylor came to learn that there was a divinity within her, but much of this was psychological. She did not understand it so well in her heart, for she still had guilt. Do you know she still had guilt about leaving the first creation? And then she had guilt about choosing these many lifetimes and many experiences of difficulty. She began to have a new wisdom as this butterfly was emerging from the cocoon.
Taylor still had problems in her life. She still had challenges. And she read much of the material from the Crimson Circle. She was beginning to understand how to accept all things. She was beginning to understand how to accept her human self, although for her this was very challenging. She felt the human part of her was something to be ashamed of. She did not yet understand that her humanness was divine, that her humanness gave so much to the universe. Taylor began standing in the divine moment, although they were difficult, and they were few and far between. She began taking a moment each day to stand in divinity. And she loved it dearly, and it felt so warm and golden. But then her guilt would get the best of her. She would feel she did not deserve this divine moment, and it would disappear.
But Taylor gave intent to learn and grow. She continued to have challenges in her life, ones of money and relationships and health and trust in herself. These were very difficult and there times when she cursed Spirit. There were times when she said she would walk away from this new energy Earth stuff because she didn't see it making a big difference in her life. There were times when she said, "This is all just words. It is like the other words of the other beliefs of the other people of Earth. It is all just words. It is all just a pacifier." There were times that she was very frustrated.
She was at a point in her life where she wanted to believe very deeply. She wanted to move to the next level, but she did not know how. And she became so confused and so lost and so upset, but more than anything else so betrayed, that one night she simply collapsed on the floor and began sobbing and said, "I can go on no further. I do not know what to do, Spirit. I have called on you for guidance. I have called on my angels. I have called on my guides, and I do not know what to do." Now Taylor did not read so well the words that said Spirit cannot do it for you, and your guides have departed. (chuckling)
There was something inside of her that was trying to come forth, trying to talk to her, but it couldn't when she was out of her divine moment. It couldn't when she was worried about all of these things. But when she broke down sobbing, something happened. Something came forth. It was like a voice, not from the outside, but from the inside. It came forth and talked to her, and it said to her, "I am grace. I am divine grace that exists within you. I will handle all things. I will balance all things. I will solve all things, but I come from within you, and my name is grace."
She lay there for a long time, feeling this energy of divine grace from within her being. And somehow it felt right. She hadn't turned over herself and her problems to some entity, to some image of God that she did not know or understand. She turned it over to the grace that came from within her being. From that day forward she began to understand. She began to understand the power of grace.


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Gunnel Broström with lovely hair and an amazing tiger swimsuit.
Gunnel again with Birger Malmsten. Margareta Fahlén below.
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Discussion in 'SiriusXM Soundwave Cafe' started by v1ru5, Dec 22, 2008.
Before the merger if an XM radio was reported stolen it could NEVER be reactivated again except by the original owner. A Sirius radio reported stolen would be reactivated. Now that Sirius is running things if my XM radio is stolen will it be reactivated? I can't get a straight answer from CS.
My guess is that the Sirius policy will win out. I think they wanted to cater to all the subs who bought equipment off e-bay.
Well the concern to me is how do they know for sure a radio is stolen. Just taking someone's word for it. I mean say your wife hates that you listen to Howard Stern and is sick of her husband listening to him. Can't she just call up Sirius and give them the SID and then she get's her way and the radio becomes useless.
No you would just call them back and give them the proper info and reactivate it besides, my wife HATES Howard, if she wanted to do that she wouldn't know how to get to the radio ID. Plus I know with XM, ONLY the owner can request deactivation. I would think the same goes for Sirius.


This wooden jigsaw puzzle comes with the message "I love you" cut out as the puzzle pieces. You can personalize it with a romantic picture of you and your significant other. It is a great way to remind them of how much you love them. It is an ideal gift for Valentine's Day or your wedding anniversary.


If you are interested in joining us and our amazing team of friends and volunteers by helping partner with locals in Colorado City and Hilldale to help beautify the yards of some local Short Creek residents, we will be traveling down the weekend of October 26th – 27th, 2018. The weekend will be full of amazing opportunities & events, you as a volunteer are welcome to attend whatever you can.
Dates are Oct 26th – 27th. Project day will be the 27th.
We'll arrive Friday evening and cozy up for a slumber party that night with us in a large polygamous style home or feel free to find your own lodging.
The service projects will take place on Saturday, start the day off with Breakfast at the Berry Knoll Bakery afterwhich we'll spend the morning with local community members to help beautify some of their yards.
The afternoon will be filled with fall fun including a pumpkin carving contest, chili cook-off (prizes and awards!). We will then go to a spook alley with proceeds going to the Short Creek community.
1- Cost for the Service Projects Day for all volunteers is $10 will reserve your spot on a project team. Fees will be used to cover supplies, the remainder going to Short Creek Festivities to help cover the costs of the festival. Note: No meals will be provided during the weekend, we will all be on our own this time around.
2- We will have lodging available for $25 for 2 nights, which will basically be a sleepover in a large polygamous style home. It should be a great time with awesome people, the more the merrier! Friday and Saturday night are covered in the $25 fee.
Everyone is welcome to find their own lodging, you might start looking at places in Hurricane, St. George, and we encourage you to check out the lodging options in Short Creek to support the local community!
4. If you know anyone who would like to offer any type of financial support, please send them this link and let them know what we will be up to in May! As you all know, we are completely donation based and would love to do a great job with the decor at the Dream Center. That means we need to buy or have donated all of the necessary supplies. Any help is appreciated by volunteers and community members alike!
If there are any questions/concerns, please feel free to contact us!
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Brooklyn's Industry City producing leases like crazy
The owners of Industry City in Brooklyn's Sunset Park suffered a setback last year when one progress-hating City Council member torpedoed a rezoning that would have allowed a few more buildings to rise at the 35-acre site.
But owners Belvedere Capital, Jamestown and Angelo Gordon Co. shrugged off the disrespect, at least for now (the rezoning never came to a vote but was withdrawn by the developers when they saw it would fail).
"We're looking forward, not backward," said Industry City Chief Executive Andrew Kimball. He preferred to focus on the enormous strides the 16-building, 6-million-square-foot waterfront complex has made since it opened in 2013.
Industry City has leased an impressive 800,000 square feet of space — office, light manufacturing, studio and retail — since March of 2020, the pandemic's local low point.
Deals with scores of new tenants brought the complex to more than 80 percent leased. Recent and new arrivals include 60,000 square feet for Porsche and Volvo with have showrooms as well as service centers, West Elm, a longtime tenant that added a 10,000-square-foot retail store, and production company The Garage, which specializes in commercials for brands such as Coca-Cola, Hershey's and Cadillac.
Kimball said, "It's truly astonishing. Of 4 million square feet we've leased since 2013, the 800,000 in the past 18 months are the most we did in any 18-month period. And this was during the global pandemic."
He attributed the success partly to $450 million the partners invested in new infrastructure for historic, century-old buildings at site, a former shipping and heavy-manufacturing center. Improvements included creation of five acres of open-air public space.
CEO Andrew Kimball has plenty of good news to report about Industry City — the pandemic notwithstanding.
Another factor is that, "we're finding that people want their office next to their industrial and manufacturing spaces," Kimball said. For example, Danny Meyer's Union Square Hospitality Group leases 20,000 square feet of offices within a 70,000-square-foot commissary facility, all in a single building.
Tenants have mushroomed from 150 in 2013 to 575 today. "Of those, 400 have less than 2,500 square feet. We're an extraordinary incubator for small businesses," Kimball said. Some 9,000 people now work at the complex compared with 2,100 in 2013.
Industry City's success parallels that of Brooklyn's other great industrial park, the Brooklyn Navy Yard. But unlike the Navy Yard, which is city owned and has enjoyed subsidies, Industry City is entirely privately owned and funded and is more public-friendly.
Kimball's optimism extends to the new mayoral administration. "I feel very good about it," he said. "I've worked with [former Brooklyn borough president] Eric Adams for many years, both at the Navy Yard and at Industry City," he said. Kimball previously was CEO of the Navy Yard Development Corp.
Industry City is more than 80 percent leased.
"He cares deeply about economic development," Kimball added. I'm hopeful that Eric really sees the value of this kind of jobs creation."
It was a slightly shrunken but no less jolly Fried Frank real estate holiday party at Cipriani 42nd Street last week. Despite a smaller guest list, the annual industry blowout — on hiatus last year — was a full-scale affair with tons of food and free-flowing boozes.
The law firm's real estate chairman, Jonathan Mechanic, effusively greeted arrivals as in the past.
Cipriani was the venue for the Fried Frank bash.
Guests had to show proof of vaccination as well as negative Covid-19 test results from not more than 72 hours before. Among the unmasked attendees: Tishman Speyer's Rob Speyer, who's overseeing Rockefeller Center's restaurant revival, Empire State Realty Trust's Tony Malkin, whose flagship skyscraper lights up the night sky, and L&L chairman David W. Levinson, the driving force behind the fast-moving Times Square TSX Hotel project.
Also celebrating were MSD Capital's Jason Kollander, Cushman & Wakefield's Bruce Mosler, JMB Realty's Morris Bailey of JMB Realty, Rudin Management's Michael Rudin, Eastdil's Roy March, KKR's Chris Lee, Vornado's Michael Franko, RXR's Scott Rechler, Rose Associates' Amy Rose, Silverstein Properties' Marty Burger, Morgan Stanley's John Klopp and Lauren Silverman, and CBRE leasing gods Mary Ann Tighe and Stephen Siegel.
"I appreciated everyone for joining us in forging a path forward, supporting our city and our industry by coming together and celebrating our renewal," Mechanic said.
If you're in the restaurant business, it pays to have friends in real estate. Simon Oren, an owner or partner in a score of Manhattan eateries, knew two years ago that the building that was the 16-year home to his popular Cafe d'Alsace at 1695 Second Ave. faced demolition.
He started looking for a new location as the pandemic delayed the tear-down, but the bistro's fate remained in limbo. Then, in October 2020, Richard Fodera, the landlord of the former Writing Room space one block north — once the site of legendary Elaine's — approached Oren to say his own tenants were vacating.
Might Oren want to move Cafe d'Alsace there? They shook hands and swiftly made a deal. The restaurant reopens with its gleaming zinc bar, terrazzo floors and multicolored vintage bottles at 1703 Second Ave. on Dec. 15.
Zero Irving, the 21-story tower on the long-ago Palladium disco site has landed its first office tenant: fast-growing business-to-business payments platform Melio. The firm signed for 25,000 square feet on floors 15 and 16.
The starting rent for the 10-year deal is in the low triple digits. Melio is relocating from a smaller WeWork space at 18 W. 18th St. The tower has 176,000 square feet of state-of-the-art offices on the 14 top floors.
Melio CEO Matan Barr said, "We look forward to establishing our New York headquarters at Zero Irving," aka 124 E. 14th St. The firm's online platform allows small businesses to seamlessly transfer and receive payments. With offices here and in Tel Aviv and Denver, it recently announced an additional funding infusion that tripled its valuation to $4 billion.
Mitchell Konsker is in charge of office-leasing for JLL.
Zero Irving was developed by RAL Development Services and Junius Real Estate Partners. The tower grew out of negotiations for a 99-year ground lease from the city, which owns the land.
RAL managing director Josh Wein said the project aims to "create the optimal ecosystem for entrepreneurial companies to grow and thrive."
The ground floor is leased to a high-end food hall under the Urbanspace banner. Floors two through 14 are earmarked for an 80,000-square-foot digital skills training center.
Office leasing is handled by a JLL real estate team headed by Mitchell Konsker with Benjamin Bass, Dan Turkewtiz, Kristen Morgan and Carlee Palmer. Konsker said, "Melio was drawn to the property due to the amazing rooftop garden and outdoor area with spectacular views, 23 feet of double-height space, a private terrace, a tenants-only gym and the quality of the new construction."
The Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm founded by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, which is known as a16z, has signed a 10-year lease for 33,560 square feet of offices at 200 Lafayette St. The new digs will serve as the firm's New York headquarters, replacing a much smaller footprint at 11 Madison Ave.
The company boasts $19.2 billion in assets under management, including a $3.1 billion crypto fund that will be run out of 200 Lafayette St.
The 1893-vintage, seven-story building recently underwent a $36 million renovation. Swiss RE owns floors three to seven while Brookfield Properties owns the ground- and second-floor retail portion spaces.
JLL's Barbara Winter and Carlee Palmer represented the ownership. Current Real Estate Advisors' Adam Henick and Brandon Charnas repped a16z.
Office asking rents are $95 per square foot.
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French's Melanion Capital Plans to Launch the First EU-Regulated Bitcoin ETF
By ETFhead 5th August 2021 1481 views
Melanion Capital, a French-based asset manager, is planning to launch a bitcoin price-tracking fund in compliance with the EU standards, according to the company's press release.
The exchange-traded, Ucits, enables investors to access bitcoin via mutual funds in the EU.
Ucits will track a collection of thirty stocks like blockchain technology with up to 90% correlation to bitcoin prices.
The platform will weigh stocks based on how sensitive they are to the movements in bitcoin prices.
Ucits funds are perceived to be an international gold standard of fund regulation, and they are sold in the EU, Asia, and Latin America.
The ETF fund will be the first in Europe and will be listed on Euronext in Paris as BTC Equities Universe Ucits ETF, charging a fee of 0.75%. BTCUSD is down -3.93%