Several organizations are throwing up (their arms) in wild fear of their job sectors going the way of the dodo.
For instance, unless you've been living in a cave for the last few months, you probably already know about the new federal program which will block around 80% of telemarketing calls for those who sign up on the free national Do Not Call list.
The Direct Marketing Association (DMA) is livid. They cry that their revenues will plummet… and — surprise! — they plan to sue the government.
Of course, the charming DMA has also been dragging its feet on spam-reform, typically complaining that bills which limit spam are violating the rights of businesses and harming first amendment issues. Besides, they argue indirectly, some people may really want, nay, NEED to know about the latest cable descrambler or debt reduction miracle!
And these spokespeople are still able to sleep at night, or at least write their laughable press releases with a straight face? Perhaps they went to the same PR training school as Hilary Rosen of the RIAA.
What's particularly ironic, of course, is that organizations like the DMA and RIAA aren't just working against consumers (which is obvious), they're counterproductively styming progress and profits in their own industries.
Napster wasn't the first RIAA target, you know. This same organization screamed that CD's were going to kill off cassette tapes (well, true) and devastate the record industry. Just like the movie industry likened the VCR to the Boston Strangler and filed lawsuits to prevent the destruction of the entertainment world (yeah, right!).
So here we have the DMA wringing its hands about a program which is going to result in them learning which consumers do not wish to be solicited on the phone. In other words, the DMA is upset that they're going to be unable to contact non-prospects! Excuse me? Shouldn't this be a blessing for them? The federal government has created and implemented an infrastructure — at relatively little cost to the DMA — that will enable the DMA member companies to focus their time on those mutants, er, citizens who are so lonely that they WANT to be sold stuff via the telephone.
Pre-qualified customers. What could be better?!?
2) I'm so sorry you're not going to be able to make money at the expense of interrupting my dinner.
Sponsor a ballet. Create an affiliate program. Give away freebies. Or — here's a radical idea — go the route of the original once-scrappy Google and actually create a product or service of such quality and usefulness that no marketing is required. That's right… think about it. Did you ever see an ad for Google's search tool? No, you didn't, because Google grew to 250 million queries PER DAY purely based upon word of mouth. There's a lesson to be learned here, though I fear the DMA may be too dense to grasp it.
Of course, other industries are running scared, too. Tax preparers might have to wait tables if we ever got someone in high office bold and savvy enough to REALLY reform and simplify taxes. Gee, I wonder which lobbying organizations have been thwarting true tax reform in Washington?
Search engine optimization folks (the people who claim to get your site listed higher in the search engines) are increasingly screaming that Google's populist yet secretive algorithms are harming their bottom lines. Some have (gee, imagine this) filed suit against Google.
Boo hoo, I say. Would anyone really miss the telemarketers, the tax preparers, the search engine optimization folks? At the end of the day, do they inherently make our world a better or even more useful place?
And most importantly, isn't it time that laws and society tilted towards the consumers' interests and needs instead of the frantic and often misguided demands of selfish career interest groups?
Honestly, if the telephone is the only way that these people can sell me a product, then they simply aren't trying hard enough. There are SO many other marketing steams out there that are untapped and just waiting for someone to come along and put up their sign, slogan, or what ever. Get creative already!
and it's not possible to make your self 100% secure with Do not Disturb.


Immigrant entrepreneurs have made many contributions to the economy and business community in Nova Scotia. In the early 1990s, the federal Immigrant Entrepreneur Program attracted a large number of applicants to Nova Scotia. Newcomers found their way to MISA, looking for support in understanding the local business environment and establishing their enterprises. MISA began serving this group of clients through a pilot project in 1992 – the Immigrant Entrepreneur Orientation Program (IEOP), run by Emily Wu.
The following year, the program was funded jointly by ACOA and the province of Nova Scotia. By 1995, Nova Scotia received over 3,500 newcomers and almost 60% of those were business immigrants. That year, our province had 12.5% of all the business immigrants to Canada, ranking third in the country. In 1996 Nabiha Atallah was hired as Manager of the Immigrant Entrepreneur Orientation Program and remained in that position for ten years.
At first, the program consisted of six weeks of presentations about the basics for starting business in Nova Scotia. Soon, networking events were added on a regular basis. MISA argued successfully that the program should be open to all immigrants, regardless of category, and that it should be able to continue to serve those who had already established their businesses. The program grew and its name changed to Immigrant Business Development Services (IBDS) and later, simply BDS.
In 2014-15, ISANS provided 43 business training sessions to 343 clients. Immigrant clients opened 19 new businesses in Nova Scotia and 72% of the businesses opened in 2011 -2012 were still in operation as of March 31, 2015. Today, ISANS dedicated team of business professionals can assist you with training sessions, networking opportunities and resources. Whether you are starting or growing your business, we have services and programs available to assist you!


According to Michael Bay there are some people out there who think that they know exactly what's going to happen in Transformers 4. But the filmmaker says that all they know is just a lie. Earlier today there was reportedly a story about a 120-page treatment for the anticipated sequel out in the public sphere, but Bay has revealed that any script for the movie that exists outside of the production's hands is phony.
The "Kruger" he refers to is Ehren Kruger, who is known not only for writing Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and Dark of the Moon, but also The Ring, Scream 3 and The Skeleton Key. While the script is still being written, it has been reported that Mark Wahlberg will star as the lead in the semi-rebooted franchise and it was recently revealed that Nocola Peltz and Brenton Thwaites will be two of his co-stars.
Transformers 4 will be in theaters on June 27, 2014.


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Heartland Rising: The Defense of American Values
The American People are basically good. While this is contrary to some religious beliefs about the inherent internal nature of Humankind, the American Heartland is made up people who desire to get along with each other and to help others when necessary. One word describes the Heartland, that word is Kindness. Kindness is found in rural America. It is essentially neighbor helping neighbor in times of hardship and celebrating together when things are good.
The American Heartland has had enough and it is going to do something about it in 2022 and 2024. Let's be clear, the United States of America is a great country. To most Americans, it is the greatest country in the World. It was founded on Judeo-Christian principles and became a free nation in 1776. It corrected its major flaw, the slavery of blacks in 1865. It wasn't a perfect correction. It took the courage of a black pastor, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to peacefully protest and achieve what was written in 1776, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." People in the American Heartland are not racist, and they are through being called that by the media, celebrities and political elites. They believe that All Lives Matter to their Creator and that the Black Lives Matter movement is Marxist blather and evil in its intent. The Heartland rejects the onslaught of fascists calling themselves Antifa. They are the obvious brown shirts of the Democratic Party since there was no outcry from that party during the violent protests and riots during 2020 and there has been no effort by Federal law enforcement to arrest the leaders and organizers of those local insurrections.It is very apparent that President Biden and the Democratic Party did not understand the message of the 2016 Presidential Election or the 2010 Tea Party. Their focus was, and continues to be, on the negative personality traits of the Messenger, Donald Trump and not the Message itself. It was the Trump Administration policies under the banners Make America Great Again and America First that most of the Nation supported with near unanimous support in the American Heartland. Trump's agenda resonated with the very essence of Heartland values, Individual Freedom, Equality of Opportunity and The American Dream.
It is also very apparent that the mainstream media have failed in their duty to be objective reporters. They do not need to be patriots. They just need to be honest and they haven't been for a long time. It may be too late for the media to return to the Journalist Creed. If they remain corrupt, they can watch as the American Heartland rises to do its duty at the ballot box in 2022.

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Features Nutrition
Aquaculture's deep push for nutrition innovation bodes well for alternative feed
By Ruby Gonzalez
Protein flour from Silicon Valley's NovoNutrients is made from waste CO2 emissions with the help of natural microbes and industrial biotech. Skretting is testing the feed material Photo: Novonutrients
The growing production of alternative proteins and oils for fish feed attests to the growing market demand and a deepening understanding of climate change, but they will remain a small fraction of the market until there's enough production available, according to a key player in the sector.
"We are talking about making changes in a nutrition system that has evolved over 10,000 years. And as fast as things are moving today, there's still a tremendous number of plants to build whether you're Veramaris, Calysta or NovoNutrients, Innovafeed or others," said David Tze, CEO of Sunnyvale, CA-based biotech firm NovoNutrients told participants in a webinar on feed alternatives hosted by Intrafish in April.
The growth of the alternative feed industry is dependent on production scale, he stressed. Mulling a scenario 10 years from now, Tze said the market share would remain on the low side.
"I'd say that we're still looking at less than 10 percent for alternatives on the protein and lipid side. That could be massive in dollar terms. But as a fraction in the maths, it is still going to be small."
The increased investment in the sector seen in recent years bodes well for the sector, however.
Innovafeed CEO Clement Ray said investors are recognizing the role alternative proteins – such as insects – play in boosting the industry's green credentials.
As it is, aquaculture already has the lowest carbon footprint in the animal protein industry. But innovations in feed that will reduce reliance on capture fisheries for feed ingredients will advance its sustainability further.
"The industry is growing very fast. The financial community has identified this strength. The reason why they are investing in alternative ingredients is because they believe in the growth of aquaculture. They are also aware of the fact that 50-60 percent of the value-add of aquaculture is coming from feed and 80 percent of aquaculture carbon footprint is coming from feed," he said.
A "smart business model" has enabled the French biotechnology company to produce insect protein with a lower footprint than an existing model, said Ray. "Today, we have a much lower biodiversity path compared to some of the fishmeal (users) and we have half of carbon footprint compared to fishmeal."
Following the construction of its first production site in Gouzeaucourt, France, in 2017, Innovafeed inaugurated in 2020 a second facility, in Nesle, France. This site is the world's biggest of its kind, with a target capacity of 15,000 tons. Construction of a third plant, a 60,000 ton-facility in Decatur, Illinois, is scheduled this year. The plan is to have 20 production sites by 2030.
Calysta, another player in the alternative protein market, produces a protein called FeedKind from "naturally occurring microbes found in soils worldwide using a natural fermentation process similar to making yeast."
It is constructing its first world-scale plant in China, which it expects to be completed next year. Its Initial output of 20,000 tons will be increased by 80,000 tons in the second phase. The California-based biotech firm has smaller facilities already in operation in Memphis, Tennessee and in the UK.
Dutch-based firm Veramaris, which produces a namesake marine algae oil at its facility in Blair, Nebraska, said one ton of its algal oil provides as much EPA and DHA as 60 tons of forage fish.
The company has always maintained that the presence of EPA and DHA molecules in the Veramaris oil makes it "the only one capable of truly replacing fish oil" in aquaculture feed.
The massive capital being poured into the alternative feed segment speaks to investors' belief in the growth of aquaculture, said an expert Photo: Cole Munro
"EPA and DHA the are two of the most important nutrients in both animal and human health. Veramaris has innovated a solution to that," said Ian Carr, Global Business Development Director.
California-based NovoNutrients produces alternative protein ingredients by utilizing CO2 emissions from industries. Such products — protein derived from cells of microorganisms such as yeast, fungi, algae, and bacteria — are known as single-cell proteins (SCPs).
Tze said the production of SCPs decouples the production of nutrition from both agriculture and fossil fuels.
"This is unique to this particular production of this single-cell protein. And that's important because it creates a totally distinct cross-structure that is based on emissions and, ultimately, renewable energy to generate hydrogen, which is the chemical energy for the fermentation."
In September 2020, NovoNutrients shipped the first product sample of its bacterial protein meal to Skretting so the aquaculture feed manufacturer could test whether it has what it takes to go commercial. "The explicit goal is striking a procurement contract through which Skretting would commit to purchases of NovoNutrients' feed ingredients," the two companies said in a statement.
Robert van den Breemer, procurement director at Skretting, said the biggest challenge for startups like NovoNutrients is in scaling up production so that they achieve a competitive price. He said Skrettting's involvement will help speed up NovoNutrients' path to large-scale manufacturing.
"We know that financing first-of-a-kind ingredient factories is hard for start-ups and, via the range of different agreements we can apply, we hope to break that limiting cycle and signal to the world which innovators we think have what it takes to go commercial and get big," said van den Breemer.
Land and water use
While each type of alternative protein has its own merits, Calysta president and CEO Alan Shaw believes that the impact of the production processes of these alternative proteins on land use and water use may be a more important metric in grading its sustainability.
"Land and water use is way more important than just carbon footprint," Shaw said, adding that one metric ton of FeedKind can replace a ton of soy protein, a widely used protein alternative to fishmeal.
To illustrate the sustainability of producing FeedKind versus soy protein, Shaw said: "Our world-scale plant will produce 100,000 MT of FeedKind a year. If it was soy protein, the land needed to produce an equivalent amount of protein would be the size of Chicago. Yet our 100MT-FeedKind plant can sit on six football fields."
(With files from Liza Mayer)
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Statement from President, Prof. Stephen Vasciannie, CD — UTech, Ja.
On the basis of consultations between officials of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information and officials of the University of Technology, Jamaica, I am writing to say that all undergraduate students of this University shall be allowed to take their end of semester examinations starting on May 1, 2017, even if they have not paid any part of their fees.
This arrangement is being made on the assumption that the fees owed to the University of Technology, Jamaica, by Jamaican students will be covered by the Government of Jamaica for the current year. It shall apply to undergraduate students in all years of study.
The Government of Jamaica anticipates that all students who receive relief under this arrangement are economically in need. Such students will be required to take part in some form of service to the Government of Jamaica or to the community. This may be, for instance, through the JAMVAT Programme.
On behalf of all our students who owe fees, the University of Technology, Jamaica, thanks the Government for this generous measure of understanding and confidence.


The Hawaii longline fishery is managed under the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council's Pacific Pelagic Fishery Ecosystem Plan (FEP). Through regulations promulgated under the FEP, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) monitors the Hawaii longline fishery through logbook and observer data. In 2012, NMFS initiated a national effort to consider the challenges and opportunities associated with the adoption of electronic reporting in fishery-dependent data collection programs. NMFS has issued a policy directive that encourages and endorses the use of electronic reporting technologies where appropriate.


The sum of these interconnected parts will lead to a complete loss of anonymity, greater surveillance and impact free speech and individual choice.
Personal data is freely accessible, shared and even sold, and those to whom this information belongs have little control over its flow.
The article was published in the Asian Age on April 10, 2017.
In 2011 it was estimated that the quantity of data produced globally surpassed 1.8 zettabyte. By 2013, it had increased to 4 zettabytes. This is a result of digital services which involve constant data trails left behind by human activity. This expansion in the volume, velocity, and variety of data available, together with the development of innovative forms of statistical analytics on the data collected, is generally referred to as "Big Data". Despite significant (though largely unrealised) promises about Big Data, which range from improved decision-making, increased efficiency and productivity to greater personalisation of services, concerns remain about the impact of such datafication of all human activity on an individual's privacy. Privacy has evolved into a sweeping concept, including within its scope matters pertaining to control over one's body, physical space in one's home, protection from surveillance, and from search and seizure, protection of one's reputation as well as one's thoughts. This generalised and vague conception of privacy not only comes with great judicial discretion, it also thwarts a fair understanding of the subject. Robert Post called privacy a concept so complex and "entangled in competing and contradictory dimensions, so engorged with various and distinct meanings", that he sometimes "despairs whether it can be usefully addressed at all".
This also leaves the idea of privacy vulnerable to considerable suspicion and ridicule. However, while there is a lack of clarity over the exact contours of what constitutes privacy, there is general agreement over its fundamental importance to our ability to lead whole lives. In order to understand the impact of datafied societies on privacy, it is important to first delve into the manner in which we exercise our privacy. The ideas of privacy and data management that are prevalent can be traced to the Fair Information Practice Principles (FIPP). These principles are the forerunners of most privacy regimes internationally, such as the OECD Privacy Guidelines, APEC Framework, or the nine National Privacy Principles articulated by the Justice A.P. Shah Committee Report. All of these frameworks have rights to notice, consent and correction, and how the data may be used, as their fundamental principles. It makes the data subject to the decision-making agent about where and when her/his personal data may be used, by whom, and in what way. The individual needs to be notified and his consent obtained before his personal data is used. If the scope of usage extends beyond what he has agreed to, his consent will be required for the increased scope.
In theory, this system sounds fair. Privacy is a value tied to the personal liberty and dignity of an individual. It is only appropriate that the individual should be the one holding the reins and taking the large decisions about the use of his personal data. This makes the individual empowered and allows him to weigh his own interests in exercising his consent. The allure of this paradigm is that in one elegant stroke, it seeks to ensure that consent is informed and free and also to implement an acceptable trade-off between privacy and competing concerns. This approach worked well when the number of data collectors were less and the uses of data was narrower and more defined. Today's infinitely complex and labyrinthine data ecosystem is beyond the comprehension of most ordinary users. Despite a growing willingness to share information online, most people have no understanding of what happens to their data.
The quantity of data being generated is expanding at an exponential rate. From smartphones and televisions, trains and airplanes, sensor-equipped buildings and even the infrastructures of our cities, data now streams constantly from almost every sector and function of daily life, "creating countless new digital puddles, lakes, tributaries and oceans of information". The inadequacy of the regulatory approaches and the absence of a comprehensive data protection regulation is exacerbated by the emergence of data-driven business models in the private sector and the adoption of data-driven governance approach by the government. The Aadhaar project, with over a billion registrants, is intended to act as a platform for a number of digital services, all of which produce enormous troves of data. The original press release by the Central Government reporting the approval by the Cabinet of Ministers of the Digital India programme, speaks of "cradle to grave" digital identity as one of its vision areas.
While the very idea of the government wanting to track its citizens' lives from cradle to grave is creepy enough in itself, let us examine for a minute what this form of datafied surveillance will entail. A host of schemes under Digital India shall collect and store information through the life cycle of an individual. The result, as we can see, is building databases on individuals, which when combined, will provide a 360 degree view into the lives of individuals. Alongside the emergence of India Stack, a set of APIs built on top of the Aadhaar, conceptualised by iSPIRT, a consortium of select IT companies from India, to be deployed and managed by several agencies, including the National Payments Corporation of India, promises to provide a platform over which different private players can build their applications.
Biometrics-based identification in UK: In 2005, researchers from London School of Economics and Political Science came out with a detailed report on the UK Identity Cards Bill ('UK Bill') — the proposed legislation for a national identification system based on biometrics. The project also envisaged a centralised database (like India) that would store personal information along with the entire transaction history of every individual. The report pointed strongly against the centralising storage of information and suggested other alternatives such as a system based on smartcards (where biometrics are stored on the card itself) or offline biometric-reader terminals.
As per the report, the alternatives would also have been cheaper as neither required real-time online connectivity. In India, online authentication is a far greater challenge. According to Network Readiness Index, 2016, India ranks 91, whereas UK is placed eight. Poor Internet connectivity can raise a lot of problems in the future including paralysis of transactions. The UK identification project was subsequently discarded as a result of the privacy and cost considerations raised in this report.
Once the data is collected through National Information Utilities, it will be privatised and controlled by private utilities.
Once an individual's data is entered in the system, it cannot be deleted. That individual will have no control over it.
Aadhaar Data (Demographic details along with photographs) are shared/transferred with the private entities including telecom companies as per the Aadhaar (Targeted delivery of Financial and other subsidies, benefits and services) Act, 2016 with the consent of Aadhaar number holder to fulfil their e-KYC requirements. The data is shared in encrypted form through secured channel.
Aadhaar Enabled Payment System (AEPS) on which 119 banks are live.
More than 33.87 crore transactions have taken place through AEPS, which was only 46 lakhs in May 2014.
As on 30-9-2016, 78 government schemes were linked to Aadhaar.
The Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and Other Subsidies, Benefits and Services) Act, 2016, provides that no core-biometric information (fingerprints, iris scan) shall be shared with anyone for any reason whatsoever (Sec 29) and that the biometric information shall not be used for any purpose other than generation of Aadhaar and authentication.
Access to the data repository of UIDAI, called the Central Identities Data Repository(CIDR), is provided to third parties or private companies.
Central Monitoring System (CMS) is already live in Delhi, New Delhi and Mumbai. Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad revealed this in one of his replies in the Lok Sabha last year. CMS has been set up to automate the process of Lawful Interception & Monitoring of telecommunications.
Lawful Intercept and Monitoring (LIM) systems are used by the Indian Government to intercept records of voice, SMSes, GPRS data, details of a subscriber's application and recharge history and call detail record (CDR) and monitor Internet traffic, emails, web-browsing, Skype and any other Internet activity of Indian users.


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Michigan Governor Supports Sales Tax Fairness
By David Grogan
Support for a federal solution to sales tax fairness continues to grow. In a letter to the U.S. Senate dated May 9, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder (R) publicly announced his support for the Marketplace Fairness Act (S. 1832). This legislation would give states the right to require remote retailers to collect and remit sales tax in the state if they do more than $500,000 in remote sales nationally, and it would also provide congressional authorization for the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement.
In the letter, Gov. Snyder wrote: "Brick-and-mortar retailers throughout the state are currently required to collect sales taxes at the point of sale. By enabling remote sellers to ignore the collection of sales and use taxes, it provides them an unfair competitive advantage and threatens the viability of retailers throughout our communities, many of which are locally-owned small businesses that reflect the unique character and culture of the Great Lakes State."
"On behalf of our Michigan member booksellers, we applaud Gov. Synder for his stance on sales tax fairness," said ABA CEO Oren Teicher. "We completely agree with the governor that the current inequity is threatening communities throughout the state and provides remote retailers with an unfair advantage. Our independent bookstore members have dealt with this inequity for more than a decade now. Something must be done to level the playing field."
James P. Hallan, president and CEO of the Michigan Retailers Association, said in a statement: "Gov. Snyder understands the unfairness and economic damage caused by the current tax loophole, and we applaud him for standing up on behalf of local job makers. The Marketplace Fairness Act in Washington and the Michigan Main Street Fairness Act being considered in Lansing are a partnership for reform that is needed right now because small businesses are put at a significant competitive disadvantage that threatens Michigan jobs."
The Michigan Main Street Fairness Act, introduced by Representatives Eileen Kowall (R - White Lake Township) and Jim Ananich (D - Flint), is bipartisan legislative that would ensure that both online and Michigan bricks-and-mortar retailers both operate under the same sales tax collection laws. The legislation would expand the definition of "nexus" or "physical presence" to include retailers that conduct business through affiliate businesses in Michigan or that own subsidiary companies in an attempt to avoid paying sales tax. (For a previous BTW article on the Michigan Main Street Fairness Act, click here.)
ABA' s Teicher called on booksellers to contact Gov. Snyder to thank him for his support of federal sales tax fairness legislation and to express their support for the state sales tax fairness legislation currently under consideration. To make it easier for booksellers, ABA has created a template letter (below) that booksellers can adapt and send to the Governor or reference for talking points for their phone call.
Dear Governor Snyder:
As an independent bookstore in [CITY], I wish to thank you for your public support of sales tax fairness. For too long, stores like mine have had to compete at an unfair disadvantage compared to out-of-state online retailers that are skirting their obligation to collect and remit sales tax. Your support of the federal Marketplace Fairness Act (S. 1832) is important and could go a long toward securing sales tax fairness for businesses like mine across the country.
In addition, I also support a bill currently under consideration in the state Congress, the Michigan Main Street Fairness Act. It is crucial that something be done sooner rather than later to level the playing field for retailers like mine. While a federal solution does have momentum, it is still unclear when Congress will finally act on sales tax fairness.
In the meantime, Main Street retailers cannot wait any longer. Ultimately, a federal solution will be best, but until that happens, we hope you will also throw your support behind the bipartisan Michigan Main Street Fairness Act.
Michigan and Florida State Legislators Introduce Sales Tax Fairness Bills
Victory! Illinois Governor Signs Sales Tax Fairness Bill
Texas Governor Signs Bill With Sales Tax Fairness Language
Iowa Governor Calls for Federal Sales Tax Fairness
Governors Urge Congress to Pass Sales Tax Fairness


Difficult to navigate with lots going on, traffic in both directions, potential danger everywhere AND a journey to complete.
Dylan had been working hard at home on crossing the road and adhering to road safety in an effort to increase independence with slow but steady progress.
I can walk along the pavements with him and I don't need to request that he holds hands with me anymore. He often just links arms with me for stability, Dylan tires so easily when walking, and knows when we approach the kerb that he needs to hold hands, stop at the edge of the road and await either verbal instruction or discussion about our surroundings and how we can complete this crossing safely.
Now we are in Greece the rules have changed. We have a 20 minute walk from the hotel to the beach. The traffic is fast and flows on the opposite side of the road. There is a large volume of noisy older cars and scooters and an absence of pavements. There is literally a fainted partially painted line approximately half a meter from the edge of the road. This indicates where the walkway finishes and the busy road starts. The difference between Greek and UK roads is huge.
We have visited Greece for our holidays for the last 4 years so we are accustomed to the differences. Dylan manages this well usually.
This time round with the teenage defiance, agitation brought on by the blistering heat and non stop sweaty hands Dylan refuses to hold hands; absolutely point blank at times. It's exasperating and terrifying just like when he was 6 or 7 and we could compromise by having him hold onto Graces pushchair. Today we have nothing but empty pleas and trying to hurry the situation along, frantically trying to avoid a catastrophe.
Not having the safety net of Graces pushchair I'm increasingly panicking until Josh calmly steps in.
C'mon Dylan lets get out the sun".


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Q: Angular, how to create a spy object on service variable I want to test my component which use a service. I dont want to use npm libraries or create mock files. I want to use spy object.
Let assume the service looks like this:
@Injectable({
    providedIn: root
}
export class MyService {
  isReady: Subject<boolean>;
  // etc more code
}

Inside my spec.ts file:
// Includes

describe('myComponent', () => {
// Some boilerplate code
let mockMyService;

beforeEach(() => {

    mockMyService = jasmine.createSpyObj('MyService', ['isReady']);
});

TestBed.configureTestingModule({
  declarations: [
   // Some declarations.
],
providers: [
   { provide: MyService, useValue: mockMyService}
}]);

beforeEach(() => {
   mockMyService.isReady.and.returnValue(of({}));
});

As you see, i want to mock a variable(Subject) of a service.
But my code above doesnt work.
How to do that?
Thanks is in advance.

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64 Dead in Russia's Kemerovo Shopping Mall Inferno
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Kemerovo shopping mall. Photo: AJplus/Twitter
A total of 64 people, many of them children, perished in a fire that ravaged a busy shopping mall in an industrial city in Siberia, officials said Monday as rescuers searched through piles of charred rubble to recover bodies.
Russian television showed images of thick black smoke pouring out of the roof of the Winter Cherry shopping centre in the city of Kemerovo, which also houses a sauna, a bowling alley and a multiplex cinema and was packed with people on Sunday afternoon.
Emergency Services Minister Vladimir Puchkov said on Russian television: "We have recorded that unfortunately as a result of the accident 64 people died." He said this was the "final figure", and included six people still buried under the rubble.
Russia's Investigative Committee said the roof collapsed in two theatres of the cinema in the blaze, which erupted at around 4 pm local time (0900 GMT) Sunday.
Witnesses told Russian television that some did not hear alarms or did not take them seriously and that the fire took hold very quickly, leaving many children separated from their parents.
"The alarm system didn't work, people ran out screaming and in panic," said Milena, a teenager, who had visited the mall with her parents.
Several witnesses said the doors of one of the shopping centre's cinemas, where children were watching cartoon films, were locked.
"Whole classes of children from nearby villages were there, they were locked in (the cinema)," a witness who gave his name as Konstantin told Business Radio FM.
'Daughter Kept Calling'
Alexander Lillevyali, who lost 11-year-old twin daughters and a five-year-old daughter in the fire, told Meduza news site that his children called him to say they could not open the cinema's door.
"My daughter kept calling me. I just shouted to her to try to and get out of the cinema but I couldn't do anything, there were already flames in front of me," he said.
Locals told RBK newspaper that the cinema often locked its doors to stop people going in without tickets because it was understaffed.
The prosecutor general's office said on Monday that all of the country's shopping malls with entertainment areas will be checked for fire safety.
The local office of Russia's emergency services ministry said the fire broke out on the top floor of the four-storey mall, causing floors and the roof to collapse.
One witness, Anastasia Klepova, told Rossiya 24 television: "The evacuation signal only went off twice. We didn't believe in the evacuation at first."
"We emerged out of darkness and smoke. We were already all black. In two or three minutes, such smoke had risen up."
Witnesses said many children were separated from adults, after coming to enjoy facilities including a trampoline centre.
#чп_блокнот В трагедии торгового центра @zvkem "Зимняя вишня" в Кемерово появляются новые жуткие подробности. Оказалось, что пожарные выходы были заблокированы, а сотрудник ЧОПа отключил пожарную сигнализацию, которая сработала после начала возгорания. Другими словами, люди оказались в огненной ловушке, причем внезапно. Посетители кинулись бежать только когда в помещении уже бушевало пламя. Это можно увидеть на опубликованном видео камер наблюдения. О новых подробностях трагедии сообщил Следственный комитет. «Серьезные нарушения были допущены, как при вводе торгового центра в эксплуатацию, так и в процессе его работы. Пожарные выходы в ТЦ были заблокированы. Следствие проверяет информацию и о других нарушениях», – говорится в сообщении ведомства. Решается вопрос о задержании охранника. Он является уже пятым подозреваемым по трем уголовным делам, возбужденным после пожара. Кроме того, есть сообщения о том, что вахтеры кинотеатра заперли в зале детей. Это было сделано, чтобы внутрь не проникли безбилетники. Сами же вахтеры ушли по своим делам и обрекли зрителей на мучительную смерть. По последним данным в пожаре погибли 64 человека, 16 числятся пропавшими без вести. ⭕Охранник – главный виновник трагедии? #кемерово #трагедия
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"People started running around, it was just awful. There were a lot of children, children without parents," said Ms. Klepova.
Health Minister Veronika Skvortsova said that the most seriously injured survivor was an 11-year-old boy who jumped from the top floor to escape the fire, which killed all his family, but there were hopes for his survival.
She said an 18-year-old boy was also seriously injured after jumping from the top floor, while nine other people were suffering from smoke inhalation.
On Monday more than 500 firefighters were struggling to break down walls and clear rubble amid smoke-filled air and high temperatures, deploying drones.
The Investigative Committee said it had opened a criminal inquiry and four people, including the tenant renting the premises where the fire broke out and the head of the company that manages the mall, had been arrested.
President Vladimir Putin expressed condolences and cancelled a prize-giving ceremony, the Kremlin said. Local authorities have announced three days of mourning in the Siberian region starting Tuesday.
It was the deadliest blaze in Russia in recent years. A shopping mall fire in March 2015 killed 11 people in Kazan, the capital of Tatarstan some 800 kilometres (500 miles) east of Moscow.
In April 2013, a fire ravaged a psychiatric hospital in the Moscow region, killing 38 people, most of them patients who were engulfed by flames as they slept behind barred windows.
Just months later, in September 2013, 37 people were killed when a fire swept through a psychiatric hospital in the village of Luka in northwest Russia.
In 2009, 156 were killed in a nightclub fire in the city of Perm, 1,200 kilometres east of Moscow in one of the deadliest accidents in Russia's modern history.
PHOTOS: Russian shopping mall fire kills at least 64 – https://t.co/OTmqafBa97 pic.twitter.com/sZum7lHDUk
— Yahoo News Photos (@yahoophoto) March 26, 2018
Malaysia Proposes 10 Years' Jail Term for 'Fake News'
Hit-and-Run Attackers Kill 2 Indian Journalists in 24 Hours


Mark Ong was a sneakerhead — that is, one of the thousands of people all over the world who talk and think about sneakers the way that Paul Giamatti's character in the movie ''Sideways'' talks and thinks about wine (only without chemical dependency or pointy-head metaphors about the meaning of life). Then, about a year and a half ago, a Web site called Niketalk held a contest, inviting readers to submit photographs of sneakers they had ''customized'' — given new, hand-painted designs. Ong, a graphic designer, reworked a pair of white Air Force 1's with a safari-print graphic treatment adapted from a different Nike model, and he won. There was no prize, but it was the beginning of a new career. Now known as SBTG (pronounced ''sabotage''), Ong sells his customized Nikes for $350 a pair.
SBTG is not the first sneakerhead to, in effect, go pro. The most famous customizer is probably the Los Angeles-based artist who works under the name Methamphibian, whose shoes (or kicks, as they say) can go for $900 a pair and who is now designing sneakers that are scheduled to be produced by DC Shoes, which makes skateboarding shoes and apparel. But the story of SBTG affords a look at one facet of the sneaker phenomenon — that is, the way that fashion and brand loyalty can come together in what might be considered the folk art of a consumer culture.
Ong works out of his apartment in Singapore, but his projects are transnational. After winning the Niketalk competition, he made a set of 72 pairs of sneakers for a store in Tokyo. He has since released sets with the Hong Kong toymaker adFunture and a London D.J. called Unkle. For Sneaker Freaker magazine, based in Melbourne, Australia, he contributed a step-by-step customizing guide and executed a custom Nike Dunk co-branded with the sponsor Tiger Beer. His shoes are included in the world-traveling sneaker gallery show Sneaker Pimps (sponsored in part by the Finish Line retail chain), and he is starting an apparel line, Royalefam, with Ambush, a Singapore boutique. ''Right up to this day, I still think that it feels kind of surreal,'' SBTG told me recently of his transition from fan to brand.
SBTG's first official U.S. sneaker release last year was at Packer Shoes in Teaneck, N.J. A boutique-style shop that looks as if it belongs in Lower Manhattan, Packer is a spinoff of a family-owned Yonkers store; Michael Packer, who runs the Teaneck store, explained that his father had one of the first Nike accounts in New York. On the night the shoes were released, a couple dozen sneakerheads journeyed to Teaneck and bought most of the 24 pairs of the SBTG X Packer Desert Mayhems.
Sneaker enthusiasm has a long history. Consumers have blurred the lines between athletic gear and stylish streetwear. Sneaker makers have responded by stoking the market for status-giving scarcity by producing limited-edition models that can draw small mobs (although it's likely that the mobs are mostly sneakerpreneurs who then flip their purchases on eBay for huge markups). Perhaps customizing, the popularity of which is growing, gives consumers more control over what makes a product special.
This essay was originally published in The New York Times Magazine, March 3, 2005.


Yamaha R25 dan Yamaha MT25 mendapat program recall penggantian Sub Main Switch & Bracket Fuel Tank secara gratis, bagaimana Yamaha R25 maupun R3 di negara lain?
An engine stall increases the risk of a crash.
Yamaha Motor Corporation, USA (Yamaha) is recalling certain 2015-2016 Yamaha YZF-R3 motorcycles. Water can enter and corrode the ignition switch resulting in an unexpected engine stall.
Yamaha will notify owners, and dealers will replace the ignition switch subassembly, free of charge. The recall is expected to begin March 9, 2017. Owners may contact Yamaha customer service at 1-800-962-7926. Yamaha's number for this recall is 990112.
A fuel leak in the presence of a ignition source can increase the risk of a fire.
Yamaha Motor Corporation, USA (Yamaha) is recalling certain 2015-2016 Yamaha YZF-R3 motorcycles. In the affected motorcycles, engine vibration can cause the fuel tank mounting bracket to contact the fuel tank, which overtime, may result in the tank leaking fuel.
Yamaha will notify owners, and dealers will replace the fuel tank bracket. The fuel tank will be inspected and replaced if necessary. These repairs will be performed free of charge. The recall is expected to begin March 9, 2017. Owners may contact Yamaha customer service at 1-800-962-7926. Yamaha's number for this recall is 990112.
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Kayak honda dong.. Klotok2 biarin aja. Ah memalukan.
Biarin aja konsumen. Gitu filosofibhonda.
Wkwkwk ada yang pengen Honda di recall..
yamaha indonesia jg recall om.. cek di web nya..
recall ko lebih dari satu produk???
dan just for info, recall itu dilakukan apabila ada bagiant atau part dari kendaraan yg sudah dijual kepasaran yg benar benar bermasalah yg dapat mengakibatkan kerusakan atau memperpendek masa pakai kendaraan.


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Can anyone quantify the amount of rocker with various behavior characteristics or words like "moderate" or "plenty"? Clearly, less rocker is faster at the expense of manuverabilty, more rocker adds to manuverability at the expense of speed. I suspect tracking is also effected by rocker as is the ability to steer by edging. But what is all this in inches of rocker over length? Is 2" of rocker on a 16' LWL design "moderate", "lots", or what.
If I wanted a 17' LOA hard chined Greenland style kayak to turn 90 degrees with one or two sweeping strokes, track perfectly without a rudder, be fast as greased lightning, you know: everything, what kind of rocker would I be looking for?


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Plastic Bag Found at the Bottom of World's Deepest Ocean Trench
A recent study revealed that a plastic bag, like the kind given away at grocery stores, is now the deepest known piece of plastic trash, found at a depth of 36,000 feet inside the Mariana Trench. Scientists found it by looking through the Deep-Sea Debris Database, a collection of photos and videos taken from 5,010 dives over the past 30 years that was recently made public.
@ news.nationalgeographic.com
A hummingbird shakes off rain the same way a wet dog does, with an oscillation of its head and body.
Jupiter – New View
Bonus: The Moonraker (James Bond) score works great even if the obvious (and maybe overused) choice would have been Holst's track.
@ vimeo.com
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Fire Fighter Flight
Firefighters are absolutely bat shit crazy
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At 6:42 on Saturday evening, the United States launched a revolutionary new weather satellite into space from Cape Canaveral, Fla.
@ washingtonpost.com
Hubble finds 10 times as many galaxies as previously thought. NBD.
One of the most fundamental questions in astronomy is that of just how many galaxies the universe contains. The landmark Hubble Deep Field, taken in the mid-1990s, gave the first real insight into the universe's galaxy population. Subsequent sensitive observations such as Hubble's Ultra Deep Field revealed a myriad of faint galaxies. This led to an estimate that the observable universe contained about 200 billion galaxies.
The new research shows that this estimate is at least 10 times too low.
@ nasa.gov
32,000 people in Japan turned 100 this year
With 32,000 new 100-year-olds, there are now more than 65,000 people in Japan who've lived 100 years or more. Though it trails first-place US by roughly 10,000 centenarians, Japan's population is only a third of America's.
@ independent.co.uk
Why no aquarium has a great white shark – usually
There are several aquariums around the world, including one in Georgia, that house whale sharks, the biggest fish in the sea. But not one has a great white shark on display. Aquariums have made dozens of attempts since the 1970s to display a captive great white shark. Most of those attempts ended with dead sharks. By the 2000s, the only group still trying was the Monterey Bay Aquarium, which spent a decade planning its white shark program. In 2004, it acquired a shark that became the first great white to survive in captivity for more than 16 days. In fact, it was on display for more than six months before it was released back into the ocean. In the following years, the Monterey Bay Aquarium hosted five more juvenile white sharks for temporary stays before ending the program in 2011. It was an expensive effort and had come under criticism due to injuries that some of the sharks developed in the tank. Responding to those critics, Jon Hoech, the aquarium's director of husbandry operations, said: "We believe strongly that putting people face to face with live animals like this is very significant in inspiring ocean conservation and connecting people to the ocean environment. We feel like white sharks face a significant threats out in the wild and our ability to bring awareness to that is significant in terms of encouraging people to become ocean stewards." Check out the video above to learn why white sharks are so difficult to keep in captivity and how the Monterey Bay Aquarium designed a program that could keep them alive.
@ youtube.com
The April 2015 Nepal earthquake (Nepali: विसं २०७२ को महाभूकम्प) (also known as the Gorkha earthquake) killed over 8,000 people and injured more than 21,000. It occurred at 11:56 Nepal Standard Time on 25 April, with a magnitude of 7.8Mw or 8.1Ms and a maximum Mercalli Intensity of IX (Violent). Its epicenter was east of Gorkha District at Barpak, Gorkha, and its hypocenter was at a depth of approximately 8.2 km (5.1 mi). It was the worst natural disaster to strike Nepal since the 1934 Nepal–Bihar earthquake.
The earthquake triggered an avalanche on Mount Everest, killing 21, making April 25, 2015 the deadliest day on the mountain in history. The earthquake triggered another huge avalanche in the Langtang valley, where 250 people were reported missing.
via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_2015_Nepal_earthquake


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Spin is a 1995 documentary film by Brian Springer composed of raw satellite feeds featuring politicians' pre-appearance planning. It covers the presidential election as well as the 1992 Los Angeles riots and the Operation Rescue abortion protests.

Using the 1992 presidential election as his springboard, Springer captures the behind-the-scenes schemes of politicians and newscasters in the early 1990s. Pat Robertson banters about "homos," Al Gore learns how to avoid abortion questions,and George H. W. Bush talks to Larry King about Halcion—all presuming they are off camera. Composed of 100% unauthorized satellite footage, Spin is an exposé of media-constructed reality.

The film also documents behind-the-scenes footage of Larry Agran who unsuccessfully sought the Democratic Party nomination for president. Agran was generally ignored by the media during his candidacy, a topic covered in the documentary. The media did not report his polling numbers even as he met or exceeded the support of other candidates such as Jerry Brown. Party officials excluded him from most debates on various grounds, even having him arrested when he interrupted to ask to participate. When he managed to join the other candidates in any forum, his ideas went unreported. He was cropped out in photographs with other candidates.

Stephen Holden of The New York Times described the film as "a devastating critique of television's profound manipulativeness in the way it packages the news and politics". Spin is a follow-up of the 1992 film Feed, for which Springer provided much of the raw satellite footage.

See also
 Media manipulation
 Propaganda
 Spin (propaganda)

References

External links

 Spin at the Internet Archive
 Spin (Video Data Bank)

1995 films
Documentary films about journalism
Documentary films about American politics
Documentary films about abortion
Films about propaganda
1990s English-language films
1990s American films

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I'm not going to stretch too far today. Just enough to be newsy and sporty — which itself in unusual for The Ear.
I confess: I am a Tour fan. After all, how many other people do you know who ride their stationary exercise bikes while watching the Tour de France racers cross the finish line in Paris? But even when I'm not riding along, I like to look at the landscape and the buildings the riders pass. I also like some of the commentators. I don't Ask Bobke, but I do like listening to Phil Liggett.
Cadel Evans' victory is yet another sign that Australia, which once seemed, justly or unjustly, far off the main stage, is squarely at stage center these days.
So here are other famed Aussies I offer to celebrate the occasion of Cadell's victory: Australian coloratura soprano Joan Sutherland and Australian conductor Richard Bonynge (who was also her husband) performing the virtuosic "Bell Song" from Delibes' opera "Lakme" at the Sydney Opera House.
Maybe you can think of other performers and other pieces — perhaps even some Australian classical music — that are more fitting choices.


Friedrich Nietzsche has always been recognized as an original thinker, one who stands apart from and outside the philosophical schools and tendencies of his time. This is the way he continually presented himself. Many readers have accepted this self-interpretation at face value. Yet there is another side to Nietzsche's thinking which shows not only an awareness of contemporary writers, but an engagement with their ideas which is often both intense and sustained. The intention of this study is to explore this side in detail, by surveying various themes in his philosophical thinking with such links in mind. It is important to avoid one misunderstanding though* this book is not designed to show that Nietzsche derived his ideas from various other thinkers. In that sense, it is not necessarily about sources or even about influences. Rather, it shows that his independence and originality developed in dialogue with other thinkers. Those qualities are no less real for that reason; in fact the author believes that they can be appreciated all the more by being placed in the context of his relations to other philosophers.
- Publisher Nietzsche in Context presents a comprehensive reinterpretation of Nietzsche's thought, placing Nietzsche in the context of the philosophers of his own time. Offering a survey of important philosophical themes, Robin Small identifies the writer or writers with whom Nietzsche most felt himself to be engaging in dialogue. This historical dimension is complemented by original analysis and interpretation of the ideas under discussion.Nietzsche in Context takes Nietzsche scholarship into new and fruitful directions. By locating his ideas within a broader context, this book provides a comprehensive reinterpretation of Nietzsche's thought adding to the continuing interest of his contributions to philosophy.
Nietzsche in Context presents a comprehensive reinterpretation of Nietzsche's thought, placing Nietzsche in the context of the philosophers of his own time. Offering a survey of important philosophical themes, Robin Small identifies the writer or writers with whom Nietzsche most felt himself to be engaging in dialogue. This historical dimension is complemented by original analysis and interpretation of the ideas under discussion.Nietzsche in Context takes Nietzsche scholarship into new and fruitful directions. By locating his ideas within a broader context, this book provides a comprehensive reinterpretation of Nietzsche's thought adding to the continuing interest of his contributions to philosophy.
Senior Lecturer in Television, Media Department, University of Huddersfield. Runs production safety courses for the Independent TV Training Association.


This is the house I grew up in,it burned down about a year after this picture was made. I loved this house.
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Here are my 2013 Eastern Maine HS Basketball Tournament MVP choices. Let me know if you agree.
In Class A, I'm going with Hampden's Zach Gilpin and Bangor's Danae Johnson. I know little brother Nick hit the buzzer beater shot but Zach's play throughout the the three games was key for the Broncos. Danae Johnson not only ran the show for the Rams, she scored a bunch of points.
Class B, I'll go with John Murray from Medomak Valley. The big 6-8 center helped the Panthers to their first regional title in three decades. For the B girls I'm going with co-MVPs - Presque Isle's Megan Ireland and Chandler Guerrette. Both were terrific all week.
In Class C, Isiah Bess from Penquis is the obvious choice. So too is Calais sophomore Madison McVigar.
And in Class D, Central Aroostook's Steve Decker was superb in all facets of the game. MacKenzie Worcester ran the Washburn machine as the Beavers dominated their division again this year.
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Billion-Barrel Oil Flood From OPEC Fight to Strain World's Tanks
Mar 14 2020, 5:31 AM Mar 15 2020, 6:30 PM March 14 2020, 5:31 AM March 15 2020, 6:30 PM
(Bloomberg) -- The oil-price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia is set to unleash the biggest flood of crude ever seen, perhaps more than the world can even store.
As producers ramp up shipments in a battle for dominance of global markets, and the coronavirus crushes demand, more than a billion extra barrels could flow into storage tanks. That could strain the available space and send oil prices crashing further, with brutal consequences for the petroleum industry and producing nations.
"I don't see how you don't exhaust global storage capacity, if this goes on until summer at the production numbers being talked about," said Jeffrey Currie, global head of commodities research at Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
The feud between Riyadh and Moscow has already inflicted a heavy toll.
Oil prices have slumped 32%, to about $34 a barrel, since the two exporters fell out over how to deal with the virus, severing the global alliance of producers they'd led for three years and launching a competition to offer customers the steepest discounts. The rout has driven American shale drillers such as Occidental Petroleum Corp. and Apache Corp. to cut dividends and spending.
The looming glut may still be held in check: President Donald Trump promised to take oil off the market on Friday by filling up the U.S. strategic reserve. Producers could take months to fully activate the idle assets they need to flood the market. And as low crude prices batter the two belligerents' economies, a "truce" will probably be reached, according to Ed Morse, head of commodities research at Citigroup Inc.
But if hostilities continue, the tide of oil is likely to become a tsunami.
Saudi Arabia announced it will supply record volumes, of more than 12 million barrels a day next month, and the United Arab Emirates will push oil fields beyond their normal capacity to bolster output by about a third. Russia will add 500,000 barrels a day, while others in the fractured OPEC+ coalition, such as Iraq and Nigeria, also plan production increases.
If storage is maxed out, oil prices will likely fall until producers with the highest operating costs, most probably American shale drillers, are forced to halt output. Or the loss of revenues could strain one of the more politically-fragile producing nations -- such as Venezuela or Iran -- to breaking point.
U.S. shale production "won't really start dropping until the end of the year," said Paola Rodriguez-Masiu, an analyst at consultant Rystad Energy AS in Oslo. "So the market will be completely saturated."
Global supply is already exceeding demand at an unprecedented rate of 3.5 million barrels a day, due to the impact of the coronavirus, according to the International Energy Agency, which advises major economies.
Surplus Supply
Once the OPEC+ nations increase supply, the surplus will balloon in the second quarter, to more than 6 million a day, Bloomberg calculations show. Goldman Sachs anticipates stock builds of a similar magnitude. By the end of the year, more than 1 billion extra barrels will have been dumped onto world markets.
Read more: Trafigura Sees Oil Demand Contracting By the Most in History
In total, global crude inventories stand to expand by 1.7 billion barrels this year, according to Bloomberg's calculations, about three times as much as during the biggest-ever surplus recorded by the IEA. That was in 1998, when Brent fell to an all-time low of less than $10 a barrel.
About 65% of the world's total 5.7 billion barrels of oil-storage is currently in use, according to energy data provider Kayrros SAS. At current rates the theoretical limits, which are somewhat below the full figure, could be approached in just over a year, the company estimates.
"The fill rate that we are experiencing now is totally unprecedented," said Antoine Halff, Kayrros' chief analyst. "But even at this staggering pace, we are not running out of storage altogether. On paper, we still have some runway."
For oil traders, there are opportunities to earn massive profits by hoarding barrels and then exploiting the difference between low short-term and higher long-term prices. Vitol Group, the largest independent trading house, has leased tanks in South Korea that could be used to take advantage of the price spread.
As tanks on land are exhausted, companies will increasingly use supertankers at sea to accommodate the excess, said Rodriguez-Masiu. The cost for storing crude on such vessels has doubled in the past three months, E.A. Gibson ship brokers estimates.
But when there's no longer anywhere to put unwanted barrels, oil producers will have no choice but to reduce operations.
"At some point the oil price will have to drop in such a way that makes it uneconomical for producers in the U.S. to keep pumping oil," she said.
As many of these companies have locked in revenues by selling futures contracts as a hedge, the production slowdown probably won't occur until the end of year, Rodriguez-Masiu said. For some of the countries that rely on high oil prices to fund government spending, that may be too late.
Even before the latest crisis, prices were challenging for the "fragile five" OPEC members of Algeria, Iraq, Libya, Nigeria and Venezuela, said Helima Croft, head of commodity strategy at RBC Capital Markets LLC. Iran, facing the twin onslaught of American sanctions and depressed oil prices, is now high on the list of the vulnerable.
"This is a catastrophe for the fragile five," she said. "It's now become the shaky six."


Three UNLOC staff in list of 20 most cited optical communications researchers.
This prestigious award, which recognizes an exceptional engineering contribution having a significant impact on the development of laser or electro-optic technology, has been given to Prof Polina Bayvel for "seminal advances in optical networks, including efficient wavelength routing architectures and electronic DSP algorithms to mitigate data degrading effects".
22nd May sees the publication of "Optical Fiber Telecommunications VIB: Systems and Networks", the 6th installment in the OFT series.
UNLOC associate co-investigator Professor Andrew Ellis met recently with politicians and industry representatives to discuss the future of broadband in the UK.
This award recognises Prof Bayvel's work on setting up a partnership with Huawei Technologies.
UNLOC investigator Dr Benn Thomsen (UCL) has been awarded a Provost's Teaching Award.
UNLOC associate co-investigator Prof Andrew Ellis (Aston) has received the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award.


BP has been forced to take a backseat in its drive to expand its Russian operation after its joint venture partner Rosneft confirmed it was to explore for oil in Western Siberia with US rival ExxonMobil.
As a shareholder in Rosneft, BP will benefit from any profits from the Russian oil group's deal with Exxon but it appears to have been frozen out of direct involvement.
The deal will see the two oil giants develop prospects in the oil rich Bazhenov and Achimov areas. BP has previously expressed an interest in drilling for the huge oil reserves in the area.
The region is thought to have greater prospects for "tight oil" development, a similar process to extracting shale oil, than the USA.
The deal follows an agreement between Exxon and Rosneft signed in August last year to develop oil prospects in Siberia, the Black Sea and the South Kara Sea.
Although as a shareholder in Rosneft BP will benefit from any profits that accrue to the Russian group, it appears the UK oil major has been frozen out of direct involvement in the tight oil project.
In a statement Rosneft president Igor Sechin said: "Maximising production efficiency at every field and exploring new technologies to exploit the potential of tight reservoirs is a strategic priority for Rosneft.
Under the agreement the two companies plan to start exploratory drilling next year across Rosneft's 23 licence blocks.
Rosneft will provide staff and access to infrastructure while Exxon will provide specialists in tight oil production along with financing of up to $300m.


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Cross Country | Hartnell College runners from South Monterey County earn All-American status – King City Rustler
Cross Country | Hartnell College runners from South Monterey County earn All-American status King City Rustler
Junior college runners (from left) Ricky Diaz III, Esteban Deniz, Ashley Ochoa, Maria Garcia, Daniel Pantoja and Josh Riley represented Hartnell College and South Monterey County at last Saturday's Community College State Championships at Woodward Park in Fresno. Deniz and Ochoa were named All-American runners. (Contributed)
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SALINAS VALLEY — Competing in their last race as junior college runners, Ashley Ochoa of Gonzales and Esteban Deniz of King City earned All-American status for the Hartnell College Panthers cross country team at last Saturday's Community College State Championships.
Ochoa and Deniz led a group of six South Monterey County runners competing at the Nov. 19 state meet at Woodward Park in Fresno.
Ochoa placed 13th in the women's race in a time of 18:49, and Deniz placed second in the men's race behind Jesse Alvarado of Mt. SAC (19:51). Ochoa's teammate Miriah Camacho placed ninth with a time of 18:47 to join Ochoa as All-American runners.
At last year's State Championships, Camacho earned All-American by finishing eighth overall and Deniz finished in 16th place, while Ochoa was in 28th place. The women's distance in junior college is 3.1 miles, and the men's distance is 4.0 miles.
The Panther men finished in fourth place at the state meet and the women's team placed 10th. Mt. SAC of Walnut won both the women's and men's division.
Other South Monterey County runners for Hartnell were: Maria Garcia of Greenfield, 106th place, 21:54; Daniel Pantoja of Greenfield, 35th place, 21:11; Ricky Diaz III of King City, 58th place, 21:31; and Josh Riley of King City, 115th place, 22:35.
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Wisconsin health officials waited to announce outbreak
Records show Wisconsin health officials waited several months to announce an outbreak of a rare bloodstream infection to the public.
WBAY-TV (http://bit.ly/1VwuYP7 ) obtained the records under an open records request. The station reported Friday the Wisconsin Department of Health Services began investigating the outbreak of the bacteria known as Elizabethkingia (ee-LIZ'-ah-beth-KING'-ee-ah) in December.
The department told hospitals and labs to be on the lookout for the infection in January, but waited to announce it to the public in March.
Gov. Scott Walker says when it became clear health officials couldn't find the source of the outbreak on their own, they went to the public.
The department says it wanted to avoid inspiring fear among the public.
Eighteen deaths have been linked to the outbreak in Wisconsin. The source remains unknown.


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I monti Kodar () sono un massiccio montuoso parte della regione del Transbajkal, nella Siberia meridionale, in Russia.

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I monti Kodar fanno parte dell'altopiano Stanovoj (da non confondere con i monti Stanovoj, situati più a est) che si estende dall'estremità settentrionale del lago Bajkal fino al fiume Olëkma. La catena montuosa è delimitata dai fiumi Vitim e Čara, entrambi affluenti della Lena. Il fiume Apsat scorre nelle valli comprese all'interno del gruppo.

La topografia consiste di valli strette e profonde che scendono di oltre 1.000 m dai terreni circostanti. I monti sono i più alti nella regione del Transbajkal e culminano nel picco BAM (3.072 m). I Kodar ospitano 34 ghiacciai tra i più isolati al mondo, distanti più di 1.200 km da altre masse di ghiaccio. I ghiacciai sono piuttosto piccoli: si estendono al massimo per 2,1 km e coprono complessivamente una superficie di 19 km².

Il clima della regione è di tipo subartico (gruppo Dwc secondo la classificazione dei climi di Köppen), con l'anticiclone russo-siberiano che abbassa le temperature e riduce le precipitazioni da novembre a marzo. In una misurazione degli anni '60 si sono registrate precipitazioni annue comprese tra 850 e 1.000 mm ad un'altitudine di 2.500 m, di cui il 50% costituite da neve. Sebbene precipitazioni nevose possano capitare in qualsiasi mese dell'anno, l'80% di queste cadono nella tarda primavera e nel primo autunno. Il piano nivale è situato tra i 2.200 e i 2.600 m s.l.m..

I monti sono ricoperti di boschi di larici e, oltre i 1.600 m di altitudine, di betulle, quindi prati montani e alpeggi.

Nella zona è presente una piccola area desertica (lunga 6 km e larga 3 km) nota come sabbie di Čara, derivante probabilmente dal prosciugamento di un lago glaciale.

Situato nella fossa di frattura del Bajkal, il gruppo è interessato da intensa attività sismica.

La regione divenne facilmente accessibile con la costruzione della ferrovia Bajkal-Amur e in seguito alla quale cominciò lo sfruttamento delle miniere della zona, ricche soprattutto di uranio, utilizzando il lavoro forzato di prigionieri. Nei pressi del fiume Čara si estrae la ciaroite, un minerale utilizzato prevalentemente per usi ornamentali, presente esclusivamente nella zona.

Il toponimo "Kodar" deriva da una parola in lingua evenki (khada) che significa "roccia".

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Trump: 'Ready to Go to $500 Billion' on China Tariffs to 'Make Things Right'
President Donald Trump said he was ready to increase tariffs on China-made goods to as much as $500 billion in order to address what he has called an unfair trade deficit with the world's second largest economy.
Updated Jul 20, 2018 7:08 AM EDT
President Donald Trump said Friday he was ready to increase tariffs on China-made goods to as much as $500 billion in order to address what he has called an unfair trade deficit with the world's second largest economy.
In an interview with CNBC television, broadcast Friday, insisted he wasn't concerned about the political implications of his decision to take on China's trade surplus, which hit a record $133.8 billion over the first six months of the year, and said the stock market could be significantly higher if he were to abandon the various trade disputes he's ignited with Beijing, Brussels and London.
"This is the time," he said, to go after the trade imbalances between Washington and its allies and competitors. "You know the expression, 'we're playing with the bank's money?' This is the time."
"I could have a much easier life if I wanted to do things incorrectly," he said. "I could have a higher stock market right now, it's already up 40% since the election, it could be up 80% if I didn't want to do this, but ultimately what I'm doing it making things right."
In earlier remarks, published late Thursday, Trump said he wasn't happy to see "all of this work that we're putting into the economy and then I see rates going up", adding that the concurrent strength of the U.S. dollar on foreign exchange markets puts the country at a disadvantage.
The dollar index responded to the President's comments in overnight trading, falling 1.5% from yesterday's July 17 high against a basket of six global currencies while investors modestly reduced bets of Fed rate hike December, according to the CME Group's FedWatch tool.
U.S. equity futures also extended their pre-market declines, with contracts tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average suggesting a 75 point decline while those linked to the S&P 500 indicated a 6.8 points slide for the broader benchmark.
"Sitting here, I could just let all of these countries continue on with their massive deficits ... they are taking advantage of us. We are being taken advantage of and I don't like it."
"China has $507 billion a year in deficits with the United States," the President said, citing figures that contrast sharply with official data that pegs the 2017 total at $375 billion. "With the EU, $151 billion, with Mexico $120 billion. Mexico, who would think Mexico?"
His comments were broadcast just as Germany's Chancellor, Angela Merkel, said the situation in global trade was "very serious" and that the application of new U.S. tariffs on European-made cars, something Trump has threatened on several occasions, would violate WTO rules.
"We see these potential tariffs not only as a violation of WTO rules, but also as a real threat to the prosperty of many in the world," she told reporters during a wide-ranging press conference in Berlin.
Merkel added that the EU is working on counter measures to U.S. tariffs, but insisted that was "by far" the worst solution for the ongoing dispute as European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker prepares for a key trade summit with Trump next week in Washington.
Jim Cramer: Everyone - Congress, Peter Thiel, Everyone - Needs to Dial It Back
From the Google witch hunt to the demonizing of Facebook's Libra dial it back before all of this gets way too out of control.
Dow Pulls Back from Intraday High on Reported China Trade Concerns
The Dow retreats from an intraday day high Tuesday after President Trump said the U.S. and China have `a long way to go' before reaching a trade agreement.
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Market Selling Is Picking Up Now but Breadth Is Still in Decent Shape
From a technical standpoint some downside at this juncture may be what is needed to shake things up and create better trading conditions into earnings.
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No matter how strong a report, sometimes you just can't make Wall Street happy. Jim Cramer explains how stocks can actually fall on strong earnings.
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Asbestos litigation grows annually, with over thousands of new claims each year according to recent data from the RAND Corporation. Unfortunately, even though issues with asbestos have been known for decades, many of those hurt are still forced to engage in complex legal battles to ensure accountability and access to proper redress. That is because lawyers for the companies and manufacturers that are subject to this litigation seem to strategically draw out court proceedings. The defensive strategy in these cases is often to wait until the plaintiff has died in order to save their client money.
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Asbestos litigation grows annually, with over 100,000 new claims each year. Lawyers for the companies and manufacturers that are subject to this litigation seem to strategically draw out court proceedings. The idea being to wait until the plaintiff has died in order to save their client money. Plaintiffs need assertive and experienced legal representation to combat the asbestos industry.
Asbestos was used in building products, shipyards, and factories for more than a century. However, it continues to be an airborne presence affecting millions of workers. Even those who do not work in an area where asbestos fibers are found can be impacted by fibers brought home on clothing by other family members. With a latency period of 20 to 50 years, asbestos can cause diseases such as mesothelioma, asbestosis, and lung cancer many years after the initial exposure. Four cancers have been directly linked to asbestos exposure; lung cancer, mesothelioma, ovarian cancer and laryngeal cancer. Asbestos has also been shown to increase the risks of gastrointestinal, colorectal, esophageal, and kidney cancers by some studies.
Claims of damage related to asbestos exposure were filed as early as 1929, when the dangers of such exposure were first noted. It is estimated that as many as 21 million workers have been exposed to asbestos in the workplace over the last 50 years, and nearly 3,000 new cases of disease attributable to asbestos exposure are diagnosed each year. Thousands of asbestos litigation cases have been filed against the manufacturers of asbestos products. These cases vary in charges of negligence, design defect, and failure to warn. Over the years, hundreds of millions of dollars have been awarded in damages for asbestos claims.
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