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Global $2.85 Billion Mine Countermeasures (MCM) Market and Technology Forecast to 2029 - ResearchAndMarkets.com
The "Global Mine Countermeasures (MCM) - Market and Technology Forecast to 2029" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
The market revenue for Global Mine Countermeasures Market accounted for USD 2.04 Billion in the year 2020 and it is anticipated to reach a value of around USD 2.85 Billion by the year 2029. The market growth dynamics account for a CAGR of around 3.40% over the forecast period, 2020-2029.
The Sea Mine continues to be a constant threat to global navies, with relatively primitive moored and drifting contact mines to technologically sophisticated influence mines. About a million naval mines are reported to be held by more than 60 nations. Since the end of World War II, naval mines have severely damaged or sunk nearly four times as many U.S. Navy ships as all other modes of attack combined.
Based on specialized low-signature warships usually armed with hull-mounted or dynamic depth sonars, remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) for mine detection and destruction, and advanced data systems for mine warfare, Navies globally are focusing on modernizing their legacy MCM capabilities. The major areas of investment being focused on in the mine countermeasures market are sonar advancements, the deployment of remotely controlled minesweeper, upgraded command and control (C2) systems, autonomous and unmanned systems, innovative mine effectors, and improvised explosive device (IED) disposal.
Variables such as focusing on improving frontline situational awareness and increasing occurrences of asymmetric and network-centered warfare have a major positive impact on the mine countermeasures market. Moreover, the increase in defense spending, particularly in emerging economies, and subsequent investments in the procurement of such systems are further boosting the growth of the market. Factors such as high cost of acquisition, and nations with no coastline, however, hinder the growth of the market to some extent. Increasing terrorist attacks and a focus on counter operations, and the launch of modernization programs by many nations around the world, have created promising opportunities for the mine countermeasures market to grow.
North America is expected to dominate the global market with a market value of around USD 0.86 billion owing to the increasing R&D investment in this sector coupled with an infrastructure that supports the same. The rising global conflicts and cross-border tension between countries including China, India, Pakistan, and Others in the APAC region is another factor that is expected to fuel the growth of the Global Mine Countermeasures Market. APAC is expected to be the second-largest market with a value of around USD 0.83 Billion. APAC is expected to be the fastest-growing market over the forecast period with a CAGR of around 4.14%.
2.1 Global Mine Countermeasures Market Trends and Insights
2.2 Top Five Major Findings
2.3 Major Conclusion
2.4 Important Tables and Graphs
3 Current Market Overview of the Global Mine Countermeasures Market
3.1.1 Cold War
3.1.2 Aviation Mine Countermeasure
3.1.3 Gulf War Operations
3.2 Mine Warfare
3.3 U.S. Mine Countermeasures
3.3.1 USS Chief (MCM-14)
3.3.2 USS Dextrous (MCM-13)
3.3.3 USS Gladiator (MCM-11)
3.3.4 USS Warrior (MCM-10)
3.3.5 USS Pioneer (MCM-9)
3.3.6 Unmanned Surface Vessel
3.3.7 Department of the Navy Budget (PB21)
4 Current Market Trends of the Global Mine Countermeasures Market
4.1 Concept of Operations
4.1.1 Mapping, Survey, and Intelligence Operations
4.1.2 Surveillance Operations
4.1.3 Organic Mine Countermeasure Operations
4.1.4 Dedicated Mine Countermeasure Operations
4.1.5 Supporting Infrastructure
4.2 Mine Threat
4.2.1 Key Historical Mines
4.2.2 Mine Employment
4.2.3 Mine Actuation
5 Market Technologies
5.1 Unmanned Surface Vehicles
5.2 Unmanned Mine Detection
5.3 Pass in Action
5.4 Automatic Target Recognition
5.5 Optical Sensing
5.6 Autonomous Vehicles (XLUUVs)
5.7 Airborne Mine Neutralization
5.8 Composites
5.9 Multi-Shot Mine Neutralization System
5.10 Synthetic Aperture Sonar
6.1.1 Indigenous Programs
6.1.2 Increasing Maritime Threats
6.1.3 Advancements in Autonomous Platforms
6.1.4 Ongoing Military Modernization Programs
6.1.5 Rise in Global Conflicts
6.2.1 Coastline
6.2.2 High Cost of Acquisition
6.3.1 Naval Budget
6.3.2 Environmental Characterization
6.3.3 Security
6.4 PEST Analysis
6.5 Porter's Five Forces Analysis
7 Country Analysis
7.1.1 Budget
7.1.2 Fleet Size
7.1.3 Modernization Programs
7.7 South Korea
7.9 Belgium
7.10 Taiwan
8 Global Mine Countermeasures Market to 2029 by Region
8.2 Total Global Market by Region (By Platform) to 2029
8.3 Total Global Market by Region (By Operation) to 2029
9 Global Mine Countermeasures Market to 2029 by Platform
9.2 Total Global Market by Platform (By Operation) to 2029
9.2.1 Manned Platform
9.2.2 Unmanned Platform
9.3 Total Global Market by Platform (By Fitment) to 2029
10 Global Mine Countermeasure Market to 2029 by Fitment
10.1 Market Introduction
10.2 Total Global Market by Fitment (By Operation) to 2029
10.2.1 New Procurement
10.2.2 Upgrades
11 Opportunity Analysis
11.1 By Region
11.2 By Platform
11.3 By Fitment
12 Scenario Analysis
13 Corona Impact on Global Mine Countermeasures Market
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NEW YORK — Civil rights groups on Thursday celebrated President Joe Biden's swift revocation of a Trump administration order that had banned federal agencies, contractors and recipients of federal funding from conducting certain diversity training. The order had targeted workplace trainings that explored systemic racism and privilege, which former President Donald Trump had deemed "un-American" and potentially harmful to white workers. The Department of Labor had already suspended enforcement of the order after a California federal court granted a preliminary injunction against it in response to a lawsuit filed by Lambda Legal, an organization that advocates for the rights of LGBT people. Biden's move "underscores the priority he attaches to the United States government grappling honestly with implicit bias, racism and sexism in this country," said Noel Twilbeck, chief executive officer at CrescentCare, a New Orleans non-profit that was part of that lawsuit. CrescentCare, which provides health and housing services to LGBT communities, was among the organizations affected by the order because it receives federal funding. Camilla Taylor, director of constitutional litigation at Lambda Legal, said Biden's decision ensures that organizations "don't have to look over their shoulders constantly to wonder if someone is going to report them and if it will lead to them losing their federal funding." She said several of Lambda Legal's clients are already taking steps to resume training that had been suspended because of the order. The Trump administration had said the order prohibited training that implies anyone is racist or sexist "by virtue of his or her race, sex, and/or national origin." Civil rights groups said the wording was overly broad and had a chilling effect on workplaces trying to address concepts like white privilege, systemic racism and unconscious bias. Within the government, the order had prompted the Justice Department to suspended all diversity and inclusion training. The State Department, Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Veteran Affairs had also cancelled some programs. "In the few months of its existence, it negatively impacted the lives and livelihoods of countless Americans and advanced the dangerous cause of white supremacy and disinformation, said Janai Nelson, associate director-counsel of the NAACP's Legal Defence Fund, which had filed a separate lawsuit against the order on behalf of the National Urban League and the National Fair Housing Alliance. "We will continue to work to ensure that all vestiges of President Trump's Executive Order are removed from workplaces across the country," Nelson added. In a separate but related effort, the Labor Department last fall opened inquiries into companies including Microsoft and Wells Fargo over their publicly announced efforts to boost Black employment and leadership. Trump administration letters had warned both companies against using "discriminatory practices" to meet diversity goals voiced by CEOs over the summer in response to Black Lives Matter protests. The Labor Department did not immediate respond to questions Thursday about whether the inquiries are still being pursued. Microsoft and Wells Fargo declined to comment. _____ AP Business Writer Matt O'Brien contributed to this story. Alexandra Olson, The Associated Press
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CHICAGO — Elizabeth Shelby had her inauguration outfit planned weeks in advance: blue jeans, a Kamala Harris sweatshirt, a green coat, and pink Chuck Taylors as an homage to her sorority's colours and Vice-President Harris' signature shoe. And pearls, just like the ones Harris wore when she graduated from Howard University, was sworn into Congress, and was sworn in as the first woman, first Black and South Asian person, and first Alpha Kappa Alpha member to serve as vice-president. Shelby, a member of the Alpha Psi chapter of AKA, had hoped to wear her pearls at the inauguration in Washington, D.C. Instead, she donned them at home in Nashville, Tennessee. Following the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, AKA, the oldest sorority of the historically Black fraternities and sororities that make up the Divine Nine, called off inauguration events and urged members to stay home. So countless AKA members celebrated the historic moment in their living rooms, on Twitter and on Zoom calls. "I wanted to help show Kamala that her sisters are behind her always," Shelby said. "I wanted her to look out and see a sea of pink and green and know that this is her moment." After the Capitol insurrection, Shelby cancelled her plane tickets and hotel reservation. The rioting robbed many AKAs of their feeling of safety at the inauguration and beyond, she said, and many members have been telling each other to stop wearing their letters in public for safety reasons. But Shelby said that didn't stop her from celebrating at a Zoom viewing party with her local graduate chapter. "I'm not going to let this take the joy out of this moment," she said. Harris, the daughter of an Indian mother and Jamaican father, joined AKA in 1986 at Howard University, one of the country's oldest historically Black colleges and universities. When she accepted the Democratic vice-presidential nomination in August, she thanked AKA, saying, "Family is my beloved Alpha Kappa Alpha." Soon after, donations in increments of $19.08, marking the year, 1908, when the sorority was founded, started flowing in to a Biden-Harris campaign fundraising committee. Alpha Kappa Alpha declared on Twitter that Jan. 20 would be Soror Kamala D. Harris Day, and encouraged members to share photos of their celebrations with the hashtag #KamalaHarrisDay. Andrea Morgan, who became an AKA the same year Harris did, posted photos of her pink sweater and pearls on Twitter with the hashtag, which she told the AP "makes us feel closer together even when we're far apart." "If we were able to be there in person, I don't think you'd be able to look anywhere without seeing pink and green," said Genita Harris of the Delta Omega Omega chapter in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. "Now on social media, this is a showing of our solidarity, of our love and support for our soror." She said group chats with her sorority sisters were "going bananas" during a historic moment for the sisterhood and for HBCUs. "It's been the same story of white men for centuries," she said. "Now a new story is being written, and it's our story." AKA soror Josclynn Brandon booked her plane tickets to D.C. the day Biden announced Harris as his running mate in August. When the 2020 presidential election was called, CNN was playing on her phone on the dashboard of her car. She pulled over and cried. "I knew then that I was going to see Kamala Harris make history," she said. "It confirmed that Black women and women of colour are so much more capable than some people believe us to be." Brandon made plans to be in D.C. from Jan. 13-21 to celebrate the sorority's Founders' Day on Jan. 15, as well as Martin Luther King Jr. Day and the inauguration, all in the same city where AKA was founded. After the Jan. 6 insurrection, she, too, cancelled her trip. "It did rob me of my feeling of safety while going to D.C., and it robbed me of the moment of seeing a Black woman and sorority sister become VP right in front of me," she said. "But it took away so much more than just me going to D.C. It takes away from this celebration and robs our incoming administration of the full celebration they deserved." Brandon watched Harris' swearing-in from her home in Indianapolis while wearing a sweatshirt with a photo of Harris from college and the words, "The Vice-President is my sorority sister." "I'm still going to celebrate," she said. "I'm not going to let that group's action take away this moment. I don't want to let them win." Shelby grew up hearing young Black boys say they wanted to be president after Barack Obama made history as the country's first Black president. Now, she hopes Black girls will have those dreams too. "It's a historic moment," she said. "To see not only a woman but a woman of colour and member of the Divine Nine become vice-president is something I never even dreamed of happening as a little girl growing up in America." "There is a pride I can't put into words," she continued. "It is such a joy to see her rise to this place in our country. It is such a joy to know that she is one of us, that she represents us. She is truly our ancestors' wildest dreams." — Fernando is a member of the Associated Press' Race and Ethnicity team. Follow her on Twitter at https://twitter.com/christinetfern. Christine Fernando, The Associated Press
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TORONTO — As Ontario struggles to beat back a dire wave of COVID-19, workplace spread has been singled out by public health experts, mayors and top health officials as a major source of infections. Experts and workers say government measures so far haven't directly targeted the issue, but fairly simple practices would help track and reduce infections. Epidemiologist Colin Furness at the University of Toronto's Dalla Lana School of Public Health said there should be clear consequences for employers that don't take proper precautions at this point in the pandemic. "We know from contact tracing data and outbreak investigations what some of the most risky environments are. We should be coming down on them like a ton of bricks," Furness said. Hundreds of people have been infected in recent outbreaks linked to workplaces, including at least 121 workers at a Canada Post facility whose cases were reported this week and more than 140 people at a Cargill-owned meat processing facility in Guelph, Ont., last month. Hundreds of migrant workers tested positive on Ontario farms last summer, and more than 5,000 long-term care staff have been infected to date. But observers said there isn't consistency when it comes to penalties for employers, or even naming workplaces where outbreaks happen. Traditionally, workplaces have been challenging for public health because harsh enforcement might mean future issues are covered up, Furness said. There are some signs of change, however, led by Toronto Public Health. The health unit said this month it would name employers with significant outbreaks and enforce reporting of cases among workers, a move Furness called "revolutionary." Putting pressure on employers is also important to make sure other measures are effective, Furness said, including paid sick leave, which has become a prominent political issue in Ontario. Mayors from province's largest cities have been calling for months for accessible, universal paid sick leave so workers don't come to work sick over fear of losing income – an argument supported nearly universally by public health experts. Janice Mills, who has a job in auto manufacturing, said sick leave is the biggest issue at the Glencoe, Ont, plant where she works with about 50 other people per shift. Workers can apply for the Canada Recovery Sickness Benefit introduced to support people missing work over a COVID-19 diagnosis or exposure, but they're only eligible if they miss 50 per cent of the work week. That's an issue for hourly workers at Mills' plant, she said, because if someone falls ill on Thursday or Friday, they can't make use of the benefit until the following week. 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He noted other regions have made use of rapid tests to find the virus among people who may not know they're infected, but Ontario has until recently been reluctant to introduce the practice. "Why we've delayed it so often, I have not a clue," he said. "It costs so little, it's easy to do, and if you repeat it, you're getting up to really good standards of screening." Some industries in Ontario, such as film and television production, are already regularly testing employees for COVID-19, and the government plans to ramp up asymptomatic testing in the coming months by sending rapid tests to hard-hit sectors like farms, manufacturing and long-term care. McNaughton said an asymptomatic testing pilot has already begun on construction sites in the Greater Toronto Area, and he said there will be "huge emphasis" on testing workers going forward. He also pointed to the government's recent "inspection blitz" of big-box stores, which is expanding to more industries. 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She said it's been an emotionally taxing year, especially when co-workers and clients have tested positive for the disease, but one silver living has been growing public acknowledgment of the work she does. She'd like to see that reflected with a permanent wage increase, paid sick days and more staff for support. "If you're going to call us heroes, then I think that we need to be treated like heroes," Nisbett said. This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 21, 2021. The Canadian Press


If one did not know any better, he or she might conclude that the single most important function of the President of the United States is to secure the computer email systems of the nation's privately run major political parties against intrusion by foreign intelligence agencies.
Or, that the only topic of importance that was discussed at the Helsinki, Finland summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin on July 16 was charges brought by Special Counsel Robert Mueller against Russia's GRU for hacking the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and John Podesta emails and publishing them on Wikileaks on 2016.
Such is the hysterical world that we live in today. Believe it or not, however, the President, whoever occupies the office, really does have even more important issues to contend with. Don't believe me?
When it comes to U.S.-Russian relations, there are very real geopolitical issues between the two countries, the world's foremost nuclear powers, where cooperation between the two presidents could bring about better outcomes than conflict.
That is the major reason to have a summit. In short, to prevent war, but more broadly, to address differences and, if possible, to find areas of agreement.
Fortunately for everyone, President Trump did find those areas of agreement.
On nuclear proliferation, current disagreements between the two powers over the implementation of the 1987 Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, which banned all nuclear weapons with ranges from 310 and 3,420 miles, were reportedly addressed. Both the U.S. and Russia have said each side is in violation of the treaty with the development of ground-based missile systems banned by the treaty.
For the uninitiated, the INF Treaty is the bedrock of the U.S.-Russian nuclear arms control regime. It was Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev's crowning diplomatic achievement and signaled the coming end of the Cold War. It set the stage for the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) of 1991. These two treaties were the first ever reductions of nuclear weapons.
So, the fact that the agreements are now failing would be a matter of concern for not just the U.S. and Russia, but for the entire world, because they threaten world peace. A new nuclear arms race would be a catastrophe. It would also be an urgent matter for the U.S. and Russian presidents to address, which, thankfully, they did when they met on July 16.
Now, it will be up to the national security councils of both nations to follow up and see about bringing each side into compliance with the INF Treaty. No new agreement is needed. Simply implementation of the existing treaty, which calls for monitors, analysis and demonstrations to test the ranges of the missile systems.
Other areas of agreement came, again on the nuclear front, where Putin was said by Trump to support the President's agreement with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula. Being a nearby neighbor of North Korea — the two countries share a border of 11 miles — Russia is in a position to apply both pressure and give encouragement to North Korea to make good on its agreement. Russia, a net exporter of petroleum and natural gas, is also in a position to factor into the sanctions regime.
Again, achieving agreement here on Korean denuclearization is better than not having agreement. This is something that both sides can play a role in facilitating, along with China, and keeping everyone on the same page. It's helpful to have Russia involved as a positive force. It's certainly better than if they were actively undermining the agreement.
In Ukraine, the Trump and Putin discussed the implementation of the 2014 Minsk Accords, which is a Russian-Ukrainian agreement to help settle the civil war there. Since that is a location where U.S. and Russian forces could realistically and potentially wind up in armed conflict, it is extremely important that the U.S. and Russia be on the same page.
Elsewhere, the U.S. and Russia via Trump and Putin agreed to work towards the security of Israel's borders. This follows on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's recent trip to Moscow to discuss Russia helping to keep Iranian forces operating in Syria away from the Syrian-Israeli border.
Obviously, there are many complexities to the situation on the ground in Syria presently, but again, this is an area where Russia could help a lot to defuse the situation and prevent a wider war in the region, which again, could involve the U.S. and Russia at opposite ends. With both U.S. and Russian forces operating in theater, getting deconfliction right is critical. The two sides must be talking.
By the way, there are no guarantees the cooperation between the U.S. and Russia will work out in everyone or even any one of these areas. That really depends a lot on the relationship Trump manages to establish with Putin and how well they can work together.
Scoff if you will, but these talks are utterly necessary. We don't boycott U.S.-Russian relations just because Hillary Clinton lost an election. Sorry. There's more at stake than partisan politics.
Yes, the issue of the 2016 hacking was also addressed at the summit by Trump and Putin, but quite honestly, it pales in comparison to the threat of war. Which is more important? Preventing an accidental nuclear war or finding out who sent the spear phishing messages that enabled hackers to access John Podesta's emails? That's a rhetorical question, by the way.
Now more than ever, we need to have a president who can initiate a direct, one-on-one conversation with Russia to defuse these conflicts and set the world on a path towards peace and security, not take us to the brink. Right now, that is President Trump. And thank goodness he is doing his job. In the nuclear age, every day we wake up is a gift. Never forget it.


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5 Exciting Upcoming Netflix Originals
by Matt Davis
With the recent release of the second seasons of Netflix's Orange is the New Black and House of Cards, the viability of the company's release model is no longer a matter of theory. Often earning them the ire of critics who feel that releasing entire seasons at once eliminates the accumulation of buzz over time, Netflix's chief content officer Ted Sarandos has insisted that the company is "thrilled with the strategy" which, according to him, has proven as effective — or more effective — than traditional release schedules.
The success of the model has, in fact, allowed Netflix to pursue a wide range of original programming. From creating new seasons of beloved cancelled shows, such as Arrested Development to developing their own properties like House of Cards and Hemlock Grove, Netflix has shown that it is dedicated to creating daring, high quality programming that is capable of competing with any of the major cable networks.
Netflix's newest release, season two of Orange is the New Black, has been praised by critics as "a show with so many terrific major characters and minor players ripe with potential." Costing just under $4 million per episode — the apparent budget of most of Netflix's original offerings — it's easy to see that the company has gone all-in in their quest to wrest control away from cable.
It does make you wonder, however, about what lies just beyond the horizon. With their three recurring shows all scheduled for additional seasons, Netflix has also committed to a number of new projects. These projects — spread across a handful of genres — represent the company's plans over the next several years. So, from the resurrection of a brooding mystery whose threads remained a little too tangled to the misadventures of a drunken horse, we look at five upcoming Netflix original series.
5 The Killing (Season 4)
Summary: Originally airing on AMC, The Killing follows detectives Sarah Linden and Stephen Holder. Distinguishing itself from traditional police dramas by eschewing the procedural format, the show has typically portrays a single, complex mystery each season. Season 4 will be set in an all-boys military academy and, according to early reports, will aim to answer the host of questions surrounding Linden's past in the foster care system.
Who's Involved: Mireille Enos and Joel Kinnaman — the show's leads — are set to return to their roles. Furthermore, showrunner Veena Sud will return as executive producer, thus ensuring a seamless continuity with the previous seasons.
Why To Watch: Fans of slow-burn, methodical police dramas will no doubt find themselves enthralled by The Killing's moody atmosphere and winding, intricate plots. However, the real audience — just as with Arrested Development — will be those looking for a continuation of the original series' mythology. With no doubt in producer's minds that — this time, for real — this is the final season, viewers can likely expect a brisker plot and firm, conclusive answers to some of the show's lingering mysteries.
4 Sense8
Release Date: Late 2014 or Early 2015
Summary: Sense8, a fully original Netflix property, will center around eight strangers spread across the globe who simultaneously experience a violent psychic vision. After becoming telepathically linked, these strangers — including a transgender blogger and a German safe-cracker — will be sought out by a man who aims to unite them while also being hunted by a shadowy assassin known only as "Mr. Whispers."
Who's Involved: The Matrix and Cloud Atlas directors the Wachowskis are on board as executive producers with comic book powerhouse J. Michael Straczynski credited as the show's creator. While the full cast has not yet been discussed, the show calls for a highly diverse set of recurring characters from around the globe.
Why To Watch: The Wachowski siblings are hit or miss. When they're closely involved in deeply personal projects — such as The Matrix or V for Vendetta — they're usually on point. With Sense8, Netflix has essentially given the duo carte blanche so its fair to assume that they will bring their 'A' game.
With its grand, globe-spanning plot, Sense8 would end up a mess on most cable channels who are typically reticent to fully commit to esoteric, long-form dramas. However, Netflix has signed on for five seasons, thus guaranteeing that the story won't be rushed and viewers won't be denied a satisfying resolution.
3 Marvel's Daredevil
Summary: By now, most people are familiar with Daredevil, the blind, echolocating lawyer-cum-crime-fighter. Though few details have surfaced, early reports seem to indicate a show focused on self-contained episodes, with Daredevil waging a nightly battle against unseemly elements on the streets of Hell's Kitchen.
Who's Involved: Steven S. DeKnight of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel fame is slated to be the show's executive producer along with fellow Buffy alumni Drew Goddard. It was recently announced that Charlie Cox — Owen Sleater from Boardwalk Empire — would be playing the titular role of Daredevil.
Why To Watch: With the recent success of films set in the Marvel Universe, fans of Daredevil — "The Man Without Fear" — have been clamoring for an updated take on the character. Disappointed by Ben Affleck's performance as the character, they can breathe a sigh of relief thanks to Netflix's involvement. The modern story of Daredevil is rarely optimistic and often gruesome, something that the company has shown they are comfortable dealing with in series like Hemlock Grove and Orange is the New Black.
2 The Defenders
Release Date: Late 2015
Summary: Marvel's Defenders is a ragtag group of unaffiliated superheroes. With each member beholden to their own beliefs and agenda, the team struggled with internal disagreements as often as they battled against their villainous counterparts. Founded and led by Doctor Strange, the group typically finds themselves pitted against otherworldly and supernatural threats.
Who's Involved: Few details have emerged about The Defenders, save that it will come directly after four, thirteen episode series: the aforementioned Daredevil, followed by Jessica Jones, Iron Fist and Luke Cage. Since The Defenders is reported to be the culmination of these series, it's safe to assume that they will feature prominently. However, with a Doctor Strange movie on the horizon, its unlikely — though not impossible — that the group's founding Sorcerer Supreme will be featured.
Why To Watch: With the success of The Avengers, Marvel has shown that movies featuring a large cast of superheroes can both faithfully represent the team's original ideologies and do justice to the individual characters. They can equally please hardcore comic fans and casual moviegoers. Given Marvel's track record with comic adaptations and Netflix's history of developing quality programs, it's not difficult to see the inherent promise of The Defenders.
1 BoJack Horseman
Summary: BoJack Horseman is an animated comedy that tells the story of a fallen sitcom star. It follows the lead character — a bipedal horse — and his apparent dissatisfaction with everything and everyone around him.
Who's Involved: Featuring a veritable who's who of television, BoJack Horseman himself is voiced by former Arrested Development star Will Arnett. The remaining cast is filled in by Amy Sedaris, Alison Brie, Paul F. Tompkins and Aaron Paul.
Why To Watch: Besides the all-star cast, BoJack Horseman is penned by Ignatz award-winning author Lisa Hanawalt. The show is poised to be Netflix's answer to the resurgence of adult animation, and anyone interested in Bob's Burgers or Family Guy will undoubtedly find themselves drawn to the show's quirky, offbeat style.
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NIACL AO Recruitment 2018 Notification– The New India Assurance Company Ltd has issued a recruitment notification for the posts of Administrative Officers with a number of 312 vacancies. The posts are further divided into Generalists and Specialists posts which need to be filled by talented individuals.
The official website where you will find all the required details of the recruitment is www.newindia.co.in. But, on this page, you will find all the details of the vacancy of this NIACL Job in depth. The details include NIACL AO eligibility details, pay scale, and more!
Furthermore, candidates can apply online on the official application form till the last date to apply online. The end date of the online application is 26th December 2018. The online application begins on the 10th December which means that the candidates can now officially start applying for this NIA Vacancy 2018-19.
This recruitment will be an amazing opportunity for all the candidates who aspire to hold such a prestigious position in this branch of the govt of India. So, without further ado, we have given the basic details of the New India Assurance Corporation Ltd. Administrative Officer Recruitment.
Others will be as per govt regulations.
Administrative Officer Educational Requirements Generalist A graduate/post graduate in any discipline from a recognized Govt University with a minimum of 60% marks in either of the degree examination for General candidates and at least 55% marks for SC/ST/PWD candidates.
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Watercolor (US) or watercolour (UK and Commonwealth), also aquarelle from French, is a painting method. A watercolor is the medium or the resulting artwork in which the paints are made of pigments suspended in a water-soluble vehicle. The traditional and most common support for watercolor paintings is paper; other supports include papyrus, bark papers, plastics, vellum or leather, fabric, wood, and canvas. Watercolors are usually transparent, and appear luminous because the pigments are laid down in a relatively pure form with few fillers obscuring the pigment colors. Watercolor can also be made opaque by adding Chinese white. In East Asia, watercolor painting with inks is referred to as brush painting or scroll painting. In Chinese, Korean, and Japanese painting it has been the dominant medium, often in monochrome black or browns. India, Ethiopia and other countries also have long traditions. Fingerpainting with watercolor paints originated in China.
1.1 English school
Although watercolor painting is extremely old, dating perhaps to the cave paintings of paleolithic Europe, and has been used for manuscript illumination since at least Egyptian times but especially in the European Middle Ages, its continuous history as an art medium begins in the Renaissance. The German Northern Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) who painted several fine botanical, wildlife and landscape watercolors, is generally considered among the earliest exponents of the medium. An important school of watercolor painting in Germany was led by Hans Bol (1534–1593) as part of the Dürer Renaissance.
Despite this early start, watercolors were generally used by Baroque easel painters only for sketches, copies or cartoons (small scale design drawings). Among notable early practitioners of watercolor painting were Van Dyck (during his stay in England), Claude Lorrain, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, and many Dutch and Flemish artists. However, botanical and wildlife illustrations are perhaps the oldest and most important tradition in watercolor painting. Botanical illustrations became popular in the Renaissance, both as hand tinted woodblock illustrations in books or broadsheets and as tinted ink drawings on vellum or paper. Botanical artists have always been among the most exacting and accomplished watercolor painters, and even today watercolors—with their unique ability to summarize, clarify and idealize in full color—are used to illustrate scientific and museum publications. Wildlife illustration reached its peak in the 19th century with artists such as John James Audubon, and today many naturalist field guides are still illustrated with watercolor paintings.
Several factors contributed to the spread of watercolor painting during the 18th century, particularly in England. Among the elite and aristocratic classes, watercolor painting was one of the incidental adornments of a good education, especially for women. By contrast, watercoloring was also valued by surveyors, mapmakers, military officers and engineers for its usefulness in depicting properties, terrain, fortifications or geology in the field and for illustrating public works or commissioned projects. Watercolor artists were commonly brought with the geological or archaeological expeditions funded by the Society of Dilettanti (founded in 1733) to document discoveries in the Mediterranean, Asia and the New World. These stimulated the demand for topographical painters who churned out memento paintings of famous sites (and sights) along the Grand Tour to Italy that was traveled by every fashionable young man or woman of the time. In the late 18th century, the English cleric William Gilpin wrote a series of hugely popular books describing his "picturesque" journeys throughout rural England and illustrated with his own sentimentalized monochrome watercolors of river valleys, ancient castles and abandoned churches; his example popularized watercolors as a form of personal tourist journal. The confluence of these cultural, engineering, scientific, tourist and amateur interests culminated in the celebration and promotion of watercolor as a distinctly English "national art". Among the many significant watercolor artists of this period were Thomas Gainsborough, John Robert Cozens, Francis Towne, Michael Angelo Rooker, William Pars, Thomas Hearne and John Warwick Smith. William Blake published several books of hand tinted engraved poetry, illustrations to Dante's Inferno, and also experimented with large monotype works in watercolor.
From the late 18th century through the 19th century, the market for printed books and domestic art contributed substantially to the growth of the medium. Watercolors were the used as the basic document from which collectible landscape or tourist engravings were developed, and handpainted watercolor originals or copies of famous paintings contributed to many upper class art portfolios. Satirical broadsides by Thomas Rowlandson, many published by Rudolph Ackermann, were also extremely popular.
The three English artists credited with establishing watercolor as an independent, mature painting medium are Paul Sandby (1730–1809), often called "the father of the English watercolor", Thomas Girtin (1775–1802), who pioneered its use for large format, romantic or picturesque landscape painting, and Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851), who brought watercolor painting to the highest pitch of power and refinement and created with it hundreds of superb historical, topographical, architectural and mythological paintings. His method of developing the watercolor painting in stages, starting with large, vague color areas established on wet paper, then refining the image through a sequence of washes and glazes, permitted him to produce large numbers of paintings with workshop efficiency and made him a multimillionaire in part through sales from his personal art gallery, the first of its kind. Among the important and highly talented contemporaries of Turner and Girtin were John Varley, John Sell Cotman, Anthony Copley Fielding, Samuel Palmer, William Havell and Samuel Prout. The Swiss painter Louis Ducros was also widely known for his large format, romantic paintings in watercolor.
The confluence of amateur activity, publishing markets, middle class art collecting and 19th century painting technique led to the formation of English watercolor painting societies: the Society of Painters in Water Colours (1804, now known as the Royal Watercolour Society), and the New Water Colour Society (1832). (A Scottish Society of Painters in Water Colour was founded in 1878.) These societies provided annual exhibitions and buyer referrals for many artists and also engaged in petty status rivalries and esthetic debates, particularly between advocates of traditional ("transparent") watercolor and the early adopters of the denser color possible with bodycolor or gouache ("opaque" watercolor). The late Georgian and Victorian periods produced the zenith of the British watercolor, among the most impressive 19th century works on paper, by Turner, Varley, Cotman, David Cox, Peter de Wint, William Henry Hunt, John Frederick Lewis, Myles Birket Foster, Frederick Walker, Thomas Collier and many others. In particular, the graceful, lapidary and atmospheric genre paintings by Richard Parkes Bonington created an international fad for watercolor painting, especially in England and France, in the 1820s.
The popularity of watercolors stimulated many innovations, including heavier and more heavily sized wove papers and brushes (called "pencils") manufactured expressly for watercolor painting. Watercolor tutorials were first published in this period by Varley, Cox and others, innovating the step-by-step painting instructions that still characterizes the genre today; "The Elements of Drawing", a watercolor tutorial by the English art critic John Ruskin, has been out of print only once since it was first published in 1857. Commercial paintmaking brands appeared and paints were packaged in metal tubes or as dry cakes that could be "rubbed out" (dissolved) in studio porcelain or used in portable metal paint boxes in the field. Contemporary breakthroughs in chemistry made many new pigments available, including prussian blue, ultramarine blue, cobalt blue, viridian, cobalt violet, cadmium yellow, aureolin (potassium cobaltinitrite), zinc white and a wide range of carmine and madder lakes. These in turn stimulated a greater use of color throughout all painting media, but in English watercolors particularly by the Pre-Raphaelite painters.
Watercolor painting also became popular in the United States during middle 19th century; the American Society of Painters in Watercolor (now the American Watercolor Society) was founded in 1866. Major 19th century American exponents of the medium included William Trost Richards, Fidelia Bridges, Thomas Moran, Thomas Eakins, John LaFarge, John Singer Sargent and, preeminently, Winslow Homer.
Watercolor was less popular on the Continent, though many fine examples were produced by French painters, including Eugène Delacroix, François Marius Granet, Henri-Joseph Harpignies and the satirist Honoré Daumier.
Unfortunately the careless and excessive adoption of brightly colored, petroleum–derived aniline dyes (and pigments compounded from them), which all fade rapidly on exposure to light, and the efforts to properly conserve the 20,000 Turner paintings inherited by the British Museum in 1857, led to an examination and negative re-evaluation of the permanence of pigments in watercolor. This caused a sharp decline in their status and market value. Nevertheless, isolated exponents continued to prefer and develop the medium into the 20th century. In Europe, gorgeous landscape and maritime watercolors were produced by Paul Signac, and Paul Cézanne developed a watercolor painting style consisting entirely of overlapping small glazes of pure color.
Among the many 20th century artists who produced important works in watercolor, mention must be made of Wassily Kandinsky, Emil Nolde, Paul Klee, Egon Schiele and Raoul Dufy; in America the major exponents included Charles Burchfield, Edward Hopper, Charles Demuth, Elliot O'Hara, and above all John Marin, 80% of whose total output is in watercolor. In this period American watercolor (and oil) painting was often imitative of European Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, but significant individualism flourished within "regional" styles of watercolor painting in the 1920s to 1940s, in particular the "Cleveland School" or "Ohio School" of painters centered around the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the "California Scene" painters, many of them associated with Hollywood animation studios or the Chouinard Art Institute (now California Institute of the Arts). The California painters exploited their state's varied geography, Mediterranean climate and "automobility" to reinvigorate the outdoor or "plein air" tradition; among the most influential were Phil Dike, Millard Sheets, Rex Brandt, Dong Kingman and Milford Zornes. The California Water Color Society, founded in 1921 and later renamed the National Watercolor Society, sponsored important exhibitions of their work.
Although the rise of abstract expressionism, and the trivializing influence of amateur painters and advertising or workshop influenced painting styles, led to a general decline in the popularity of watercolor painting after c.1950, watercolors continue to be utilized by important artists such as Joseph Raffael, Andrew Wyeth, Philip Pearlstein, David Remfry, William Tillyer, Eric Fischl, Gerhard Richter, and Francesco Clemente. Modern watercolor paints are now as durable and colorful as oil or acrylic paints, and the recent renewed interest in drawing and multimedia art has also stimulated demand for fine works in watercolor. As art markets continue to expand, painting societies continue to add members and aging Baby Boomers increasingly retire to more contemplative hobbies, watercolors seem poised to enter yet another "golden age".
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This year in the UK, 40,000 children and young people will enter the care system. That's 109 every day.
There are currently around 95,000 children in the UK who are classified as looked-after away from home. An increase of 3% from the previous year.
More than 65,000 children live with almost 55,000 foster families across the UK.
The UK urgently needs 8,100 more foster families to meet the need.
At 30 September 2018, there were 2730 children waiting for adoption in England. 41% of these had been waiting eighteen months or more.
Nearly half of all young men (21 and under) in custody have experience of the care system.
One third of care leavers become homeless within the first two years of leaving care and 25% of homeless people are care-experienced.
Nearly 40% of care leavers aged 19-21 are NEET* compared to 12% of all 19-21 year olds.
26% of 19 and 20-year olds continue to live with their former foster carers through 'Staying Put' despite ceasing to be looked after on their 18th birthday, a marginal increase on 2017.
3,820 children were adopted last year, a 13% decrease from the previous year.
The average age of adoption is 3 years and 3 months.
The number of looked after children with a placement order for adoption has fallen by 44% since 2014.
73% of looked after children are in foster placements.
It is estimated that a further 6,800 foster families need to be recruited over the next year.
Over the past year, 10% of fostered children have had three or more placements.
There are 75,000 looked after children.
The number of children starting to be looked after has decreased by 3% since 2017.
56% of looked after children are male and 44% are female.
Unaccompanied asylum-seeking children make up 6% of the looked after children population.
11% of children ceased to be looked with a special guardianship order.
One third of young offenders and almost one third of the adult prison population self-identify as care-experienced.
Only 16% of school leavers who have been in care for the entirety of their final year have one qualification at Level 6 or better.
Between 30-50% of the homeless population are care experienced.
28% of young people leave care without a formal 'pathway' plan for their next steps.
Of young people leaving care eligible for aftercare services, 38% did not receive any.
*For the purposes of comparison with other UK nations, 'looked after' here refers to children looked after away from their home or parents.
This is no longer collected as national data.
Of children who cease to be looked after, around 7% go on to be adopted.
68% of children who are adopted are under the age of five.
At 31 March 2019, there were 151 children and 125 adopters waiting to be matched on Scotland's Adoption Register.
Approximately 50% of looked after* children live with foster families.
38% of all looked after* children live with kinship carers.
It is estimated that a further 550 more foster families are needed.
5% of all looked after children experience three or more placement changes every year.
Please note: A child classified as 'looked after' in Scotland includes all children looked after by a local authority, including some who remain living at home with their parents. Scotland is unique in this compared to the other UK nations.
There are around 11,000 looked after* children.
Just under 14% of all looked after* children are cared for in residential settings.
51% of care leavers are in education, training or employment at 12 months after leaving care.
Between 20-30% of the young homeless population are care experienced.
23% of children leaving care aged 16 or over have no formal qualifications, vocational or otherwise.
25% of adult prisoners are care experienced and 14% of young women leaving care are pregnant or already a Mother.
74% of looked after children are accommodated in foster care placements.
It is estimated that fostering services need to recruit a further 550 foster families.
308 children were adopted in 2017-18.
8% of children were adopted by their former foster carer, a proportion that has fallen steadily over the past ten years.
As of 31 March 2018, 350 children subject to a placement order were waiting to be matched with a family.
6,400 children are classified as looked after, an increase of 8% from the previous year.
10% of looked after children had three or more placements over the past year.
There are between 2.7 and 8 million children residing in orphanages globally.
On average, 80% of children living in orphanages have at least one living parent.
1 in 3 children exiting residential care institutions becomes homeless.
1 in 5 children exiting residential care institutions gains a criminal record.
1 in 10 children exiting residential care institutions commits suicide.
In Australia, 36% of Christian churches and 51% of individual church attendees were found to support overseas residential care institutions.
During 2017, 172,362 people arrived in Europe via sea: just under half were women and children.
92% of the 15,140 children who crossed the central Mediterranean between January and September 2017 were alone.
In 2017, Britain received just 3% of all asylum applications in the EU.
References and a full version of these statistics are available to download here.
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Humans have imagined conversations with machines even since their invention. While this goal was out of reach early on, we now are now in a position to develop these conversational agents thanks to modern improvements in AI and computing power. The University of Michigan has been developing a conversational chatbot as a part of the Alexa Prize Competition, a select international competition to develop interactive AI on Amazon's Alexa that can hold an engaging conversation for 20 minutes–a lofty goal! Join us for an evening to discuss research on how we are building AI systems that converse naturally with humans, and what the future of chatbots may look like.
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David Jurgens is an assistant professor in the School of Information at the University of Michigan where he directs the Blablablab. His research combines natural language processing, network science and data science to discover, explain and predict human behavior in large social systems.
Nikola Banovic is an assistant professor in the Computer Science and Engineering department at the University of Michigan, where he leads the Computational HCI lab. His research focuses on understanding and modeling human behavior to support innovative information technology that will change how we study and design interactive user experiences. He creates technology that automatically reasons about and acts in response to people's behavior to help them be productive, healthy, and safe.
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When the history of the Trade Union Movement in Grenada is written by future scholars, the name Chester Arlington Humphrey would deservedly be among the list of Comrades to be recognised for the important roles played on behalf of the Working Class of the country.
No one can deny that Comrade Chester has been a significant and huge figure in helping to advance the cause of workers over the past 35 years in Grenada, Carriacou & Petite Martinique.
The Brother also played his part in helping the New Jewel Movement (NJM) of Maurice Bishop, Bernard Coard and Unison Whiteman to chart the 1979-83 Grenada Revolution after the armed uprising against the Eric Gairy-led Grenada United Labour Party (GULP) government.
And certainly within the past 20-years, Chess was in the forefront of the anti-Keith Mitchell and NNP struggle by those who wanted to see the country move in a much different and better direction.
THE NEW TODAY would identify him as among any three persons in Grenada who can be singled out between 1995 and 2008 as participants in that particular battle.
Comrade Chess along with the likes of former Opposition Leader Michael Baptiste and attorney-at-law, Anselm Clouden were able to articulate the issues in such a way that the ordinary man could have understood the ills in the Grenadian society under the NNP.
It was a sad day for Grenada and the Trade Union movement to witness the public humiliation of the Brother by the workers of the country last Thursday when the workers celebrated May Day at the national stadium.
The man who was so loved by workers especially in the past 20 years was booed, heckled, jeered at and virtually insulted by the same workers who had stood up with him over the years in so many struggles and battles.
The writing was on the wall for Brother Chess especially after the fall-out within the ranks of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) among the forces loyal to Peter David, Nazim Burke and former Prime Minister Tillman Thomas.
The once powerful President-General of the Technical & Allied Workers Union (TAWU) is seen by many as the main strategist and brain behind the backers and supporters of David.
However, Chess has made the same cardinal sin and error committed by the revolutionaries who moved against their own Comrade Leader in October 1983, killed him and others and opened the door for the U.S and Caribbean forces to bring an end to the near five years of Marxist experiment in the Spice Isle.
The common factor among the leftist forces is that if they cannot control "the thing" then they will mash it up.
Brother Chess has sent a clear message in recent times that he intends to go all out to ensure that Congress never rises again in this country and more so that the new Political Leader, Nazim Burke to be totally locked out and shut out from the Prime Ministership of the country.
This is an issue that is totally beyond the control of the TAWU boss. The same workers who publicly humiliated Chess last Thursday will decide the fate not only of "Naz" but the current Prime Minister and all those with an eye on the top job within the Botanical Gardens.
It is an impossible task to get the TAWU President-General to understand and come to terms with the reality that the workers were always prepared to go the extra mile with him as a trade union leader but once he put on the political hat for battle the game was all over for him.
What this newspaper is clear about is that Brother Chess' destiny is in his hands and it is up to him to take action to avoid future public humiliation and embarrassment by the workers of the country.
He needs to re-arrange in his own mind – if that is ever possible – that a large cross section of the Working Class now view him as selfish, egoistic and a sell-out to the very man and his troops that he waged such a fierce battle against in the past to help bring him down in 2008.
Indeed, politics can make very strange bedfellows to the point that the old adage is so true that there are no permanent friends and enemies in the game called politics.
THE NEW TODAY would also like to use this opportunity to express its abhorrence at the execution of a leading attorney-at-law in neighbouring Trinidad & Tobago at the hands of criminal elements in the twin island Republic.
will now target officers of the court for whatever reason.
This newspaper would hope that this was a mistake hit and certainly a one-off killing and not a change in strategy and tactics by the criminal elements in Trinidad to now target lawyers, judges and other officers of the criminal justice system.
It is a crime that has to be solved by the law enforcement officers in that country and to bring to justice all involved – not only the gunman and those who were inside the two vehicles that did the hit but the real masterminds of the plot.
Our heartfelt sympathy goes out not only to her family and loved ones who are now in mourning but to the entire population of Trinidad and Tobago.


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