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Eagle Nest the Hot Spot for Pike Fishing this Memorial Day Weekend
Shawn Denny, Fisheries Biologist for New Mexico Department of Game and Fish shows off a big pike snared during a spring 2012 fish population survey.
Anglers looking for some real thrills this Memorial Day weekend need go no further than Eagle Nest Lake where the fishing is on for big bad pike.
"Now's the time to have at it," says Eric Frey, Northeast Area Fisheries Biologist for the state Department of Game and Fish (NMDGF)." They're spawning up in the shallows, right off the banks, and they'll take just about anything right now."
Anglers are free to catch and keep as many pike as they want from Eagle Nest Lake as the department is trying to reduce the predatory fish's population at the popular trout and Kokanee salmon fishery.
Someone illegally planted pike in the lake several years ago and their population is now growing.
Pike prey upon and compete with other more favorable sport fish for resources and their presence in the lake is having a negative impact on the trout population, Frey says.
Now the NMDGF is asking licensed anglers to put their skills to work at helping get a grip on the situation by visiting the lake and catching as many of the feisty fish as possible.
Eagle Nest Lake
Anglers should arm themselves with a stout rod and reel loaded with at least 10-pound test.
A steel leader should be used to keep the fish's sharp teeth or gills from cutting the line.
Pike will chase and attack all sorts of lures that imitate smaller fish including large metal spoons especially in silver, white or yellow colors.
Anglers at this time of year need only fish from the shoreline and can cast out at various angles and retrieve at different speeds and depths to initiate a strike.
Anglers can control a captured pike by firmly gripping it by its neck well back behind the gills which are very sharp, as are the teeth.
But with pike at the lake are being found in the lengths exceeding 30 inches, dragging it up on the bank and clubbing it over the head might be the preferred method of subduing them, Frey says.
Pike make for good eating and can be fried, baked, poached or grilled just like any other fish, although they have more bones.
A recent pike fishing contest sponsored by Dos Amigos Fly shop in Eagle Nest drew about 65 anglers who caught over 100 pike and lost a similar amount, says the owner,Wayne Thurber.
Another pike derby is a scheduled for Labor Day weekend at the end of the summer, he says.
Thurber says he's new to pike fishing as are many anglers at the lake but that fishing for the species is growing, along with its population.
Preliminary results from the NMDGF's annual survey of fish populations at the lake conducted last week indicate that the pike population is increasing while trout numbers are apparently in decline.
Eric Frey, 37, of Raton is the Northeast Area Fisheries Biologist with New Mexico Department of Game and Fish. He earned his Fishery and Wildlife Sciences degree from Eastern New Mexico University and is a 13 year veteran of the department.
The survey last year netted only seven pike, while this year department personnel hauled in 60 with the biggest pike measuring about 34 inches and weighing in at about ten pounds, Frey says.
Samples of stomach contents from captured pike indicate that the fish are primarily consuming white sucker fish and Kokanee salmon and to a lesser degree, trout.
Ironically, perch are the predominant fish in the lake but the pike captured during recent sampling did not contain any of those fish, Frey said.
Frey speculates that pike may be passing up the perch due to the protective, spiny fin along a perch's back.
The survey last week also revealed that the pike were not yet out in deeper water but were instead up in the shallow water just off the banks with most fish captured at the south end of the lake.
New Mexico Department of Game and Fish Fisheries Biologists often work long into the night collecting, counting and analyzing fish as part of the their overall management plan for New Mexico's angling areas.
A large population of 28- to 31-inch, four-year-old pike is now reaching breeding age and is currently spawning, Frey says.
The more of these spawning fish that can be caught now will help reduce pike numbers in the future, Frey says.
"The time's ripe to get after them," he says.
Under new regulations instituted this winter by the state game commission, anglers are required to keep any pike they catch from the lake and the bag limit has been lifted.
Anglers venturing to Eagle Nest Lake over the long weekend holiday might find campsites available at the state park on the lake or along the river in the canyon below the dam.
Fishing supplies are available in Eagle Nest at the marina and fly shop in town.
If You Go: Take U.S. 84/285 North to Espanola and through town. Proceed on State Road 68 to Taos and at the intersection of US 64 head east to Eagle Nest. For a scenic return trip take NM 434 through Angel Fire. At Mora turn right on NM 518 and follow to NM 75 to Pensaco. Follow through town to NM 76 and the turn off to Truchas and Espanola.
Erik Ness - He Lived a Life Most Journalists Can Only Dream Of
Two Journalist's who worked with and knew Erik Leroy Ness well pay tribute to the legendary New Mexico Farm and Livestock Bureau' spokesman who died of pancreatic cancer on May 12th at the age of 57 and was buried and memorialized today, May 18, 2012, in his hometown of Las Cruces, NM.
By Bill Diven
Erik Ness stomped the firmament of Aggieland in 1974 when he joined a cabal of media rebels who stormed the student union at New Mexico State University and launched Ozone Ranger Radio.
The timing proved perfect for the collision of cowboy and hippie music flavored with rhythm and blues.
Rock 'n' rollers needed more energy, some campus cowboys learned to roll left-handed cigarettes and a smoke-filled saloon featured the Mesilla Valley Lowboys' blues one weekend and the Desperados' two-stepping the next.
It couldn't last, of course.
Saner heads at the cow college prevailed the next year, or maybe the hammer just dropped from above as happens in student media, so the Rangers scattered establishing outposts of creative subversion along many trails.
For his part as an Ozone Ranger Erik took the title of operations manager establishing himself early as an operator maneuvering the thickets of his beloved state until his too-early demise last weekend.
Calling Erik an operator, though, does no justice to the media wizardry he conjured as press aide to liberal Attorney General Toney Anaya and then three decades positioning the conservative New Mexico Farm and Livestock Bureau as the go-to voice of agriculture and its families.
Behind the scene he advised scores of political candidates, but good luck finding his fingerprints especially on anything fun that gigged the opposition.
He sometimes went by Buck Truck with a good-ol'-boy growl and wry smile mistaken at your peril for a case of dumbass.
All the time he was writing and speaking, sometimes to national audiences, sometimes letting other folks run with his words making them sound the better for it.
When he wasn't writing under his own name or one that covered his tracks, he wrote music and hung out at Emmett Brooks' Goldust Studios in Las Cruces or with balladeer Michael Martin Murphey.
"Murph," as Ness introduced him to me, has a ranch in northern New Mexico and became a spokesman for the American Farm Bureau Federation. He came by his ranching skills early and honestly, but Erik was just offstage as Murphey became a new national hero for the farm-and-ranch folks.
Occasionally over drinks Erik sort of sang his latest lyrics revealing more than just a talent for poetry.
His keen eye and ear made the people and places of New Mexico as special as a full moon riding over the crags of the Organ Mountains.
T'would be nice if someone compiled his music and shared it.
Ness passed over invitations to write his own ticket to self-important places.
Washington, D.C., was out, he famously noted, because he couldn't hunt antelope there.
That's just another way of saying his heart and roots were here, and Las Cruces was big enough, thank you.
Not too many public-relations specialists throw produce at journalists, and I can't say Erik made a practice of it.
But one evening while waiting for my steak at the Buckhorn Saloon in Pinos Altos, lettuce was in the air.
When the third piece zinged past my ear, I turned around ready for a brawl, but there in the corner were Erik and a fishing buddy convulsing from suppressed laughter.
Maybe that was just his way of promoting one of the Mesilla Valley's prominent crops.
I won't say we closed the place down, just that the fish in the Gila were safe the next morning.
So now he's gone at 57, and we're poorer for it.
His family saw him more after he retired from the Farm Bureau although that time proved all too short.
New Mexico music lost out, too, as did friends accustomed to tales delivered with a wry smile and rumbling chuckle.
Not to get too preachy, but you can read Erik's life as a book on how to fight for your causes and have a good time doing it without needing to leave your opponent gut-shot by the side of the road.
Yeah, news and politics always made rough sport here, but then you salved your sprains and repaired to the bar to discuss events in detail, with respect and off the record.
These days power brokers keep their spin specialists on short leashes, and woe be to he or she seen chatting with a reporter after hours in some dark roadhouse with Murph on the jukebox.
If Erik were just starting out, he'd be a tough fit for the way the game is now played.
No telling where the Ozone Ranger would go, but there would be music and probably lettuce in the air.
By Karl Moffatt
I was just a wise ass, city boy, enrolled at New Mexico State University's School of Journalism when I first met Erik Ness back in the late 1980s.
The Albuquerque Journal had a bureau then in Las Cruces manned by longtime, longhaired, southern New Mexican newsman, Bill Diven, and his hapless photographer called "Feckless."
For some reason which is only now fully apparent, Diven had thought it might be entertaining to hire away the industrious cop reporter from the university's student newspaper to fill his editorial intern position that summer.
Up until then the J-School had fed him a steady diet of great looking but uninspired co-eds to fill the position and he was looking for a little more news production to ease his worried mind.
Back then the Journal was a respected, statewide paper that had guys like Fritz Thompson and Richard Pipes roaming the state looking for news and photos from the back roads of New Mexico.
Now the Journal doesn't even deliver to most of those places.
But I'd been hired then for $10 an hour at 20-hours a week to do Diven's bidding which included writing stories for, of all things, the Farm and Ranch page that ran in the Journal's Sunday edition.
The page was dedicated to coverage of the state's agriculture industry and was appropriately assigned to the Las Cruces bureau as NMSU was home to the agriculture college and the state department of agriculture too.
So Diven promptly dispatched me to the Farm and Livestock Bureau's nearby, downtown, office to touch bases with the state agricultural industry's chief spokesman, Erik Ness.
I walked over under the glaring summer sun and blistering heat and found the town's most passionate and highly vocal animal rights activist carrying a protest sign and parading up and down the sidewalk in front of the Farm Bureau's office.
As I stood talking to him and scribbling in my new reporters' notebook, Ness emerged from the building carrying a couple of cans of cold Coke.
He came up and jovially introduced himself while offering a can to each of us.
Naturally it wouldn't have been polite to turn down such a generous and refreshing offer so we both grabbed a Coke and knocked them back as Ness stood and grinned.
Ness then draped an arm across my shoulder and steered me towards his air conditioned office while the protester yelled in my wake to "beware" of the Farm Bureau's "Minister of Propaganda."
And with that I was introduced to one of the most interesting, influential and memorable characters of my journalism career.
Ness offered me all the background I needed to effectively cover the industry, made introductions to all the best sources and rarely asked to go off the record when speaking to me.
Ness was a pro at explaining the ag industry's position and then telling you what the opposition's was and who to talk to get it.
And then he always made sure to suggest a crucial question to ask them.
The media is always being manipulated in this way as they search for the truth but what I respected about Ness was that while he might have steered me in the right direction he never tried to take over the wheel.
Many times it was Ness who provided me the lead that led to an unflattering story about the industry.
Ness was a news man who put out his own highly informative newspaper under the Farm Bureau banner.
It was chock full of good stuff and frequently featured cover illustrations by his father, Carl, who was a wonderful artist whose work truly captured the spirit of the state.
Ness was also an avid radio and film man who cranked out one piece after another from his basement studio at the Farm Bureau.
And his stuff earned him one ward after another from his peers.
Here's an example of his work that shows why he earned so much respect from other journalists. Click on the play button in the video box to hear Ness's smooth delivery of the facts of this court case http://www.krqe.com/dpp/search/commentary-helena-chemical-lawsuit.
But it seemed one of his favorites of all time was the tongue in cheek short film he did called the "Adventures of Broke Truck Mountain" that was shown at the 2007 White Sands Film Festival in Alamogordo.
It was hilarious according to him and I'm sad to say I never got to see it.
Hopefully someone will resurrect it and post it to YouTube for all of us to enjoy.
Ness was an all around pro who could do it all and the state and national agricultural industry lost an incredibly talented, tireless advocate for their cause with his retirement and premature passing.
I was told Ness wrote his own obit. It highlights many of the accomplishments he was most proud of having achieved in his career and can be seen at http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/lcsun-news/obituary.aspx?n=erick-ness&pid=157650090.
But what it doesn't mention is what only those who knew him can, that he was a wickedly funny man with a deep, dark talent for political shenanigans.
When I graduated from NMSU and had moved up to Santa Fe to further my journalism career I looked forward to each year's legislative session because I knew Ness would be in town for the annual Ag Fest.
I would slip into the crowded event and there among throngs of legislators and agricultural industry members I'd find Ness and we'd get together after the show to spend some time getting caught up.
There was always talk about this political campaign he'd worked on or that political issue he taken an interest in and I remember how he proud he was at helping deliver the state to Republican President George W. Bush for his second term in 2004.
It was mud in the face of Democratic Governor Bill Richardson face and Ness particularly relished that.
But it was back in Las Cruces when I first got to know Ness that I gained some real sense of his political cunning.
We both lived in the same neighborhood and I would stop by his apartment every now and then to share a few beers and talk shop.
I recall how during one visit he tossed me a copy of the Las Cruces Sun News and pointed out a particular letter to the editor signed by Ramirez Sanchez.
Then he'd laughed slyly and make fun of the newspaper for not catching on that those letters were penned by him using the real name of the infamous terrorist "Carlos the Jackal."
He even once told me during one of our happy hours that he had just turned down a job with the CIA.
They had way too many rules and regulations for his style.
I couldn't get a confirmation or denial on that story but many times I would leave his apartment thinking he had been blowing smoke up my pantalones about one thing or another.
Only later I would discover on my own that he wasn't.
Ness turned me on to rural New Mexico, always suggesting the best back roads to take and the better places to eat in various towns across the state.
And it was from Ness that I developed an ear for country music and my bizarre knack for making up my own lyrics to sing along to while tooling down some lonely, country road.
Now I know why they listen to so much country music in rural New Mexico.
It's because that's all you can find on the radio.
And it was Ness who gave me the insight about how a good flack operates. And that has served me well in my career and as a citizen of this great state.
So when I learned of his illness, I was shocked, he never let on.
I searched my memory for details from the last time we met.
It must have been at the 2010 AG Fest where he sadly lamented how the good old days where gone under the bureau's new leadership and perhaps it was time for him to go.
He retired a short time later and we talked off and on after that.
Ness always made sure I got his latest press release that he'd done for the Elephant Butte Irrigation District.
You could tell he was figuring out what to do next and you just knew whatever it was that it would be great.
But he was taken from us way too soon and by the time I learned of his illness it was too late to personally say goodbye.
But on a windswept plain recently, under threatening clouds with a herd of cows milling about, I found myself talking to a rancher by the side of a rural dirt road.
And when Ness' name came up I pulled a couple of cans of Coors from my cooler and we toasted and spoke fondly of him.
And in the end I figure that's exactly what he would have wanted from me.
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Ep50: Lord John Browne 'Beyond Net Zero'
Lord Browne is a Senior Advisor at General Atlantic on climate and Net Zero, providing strategic support and advice to the firm's investment teams and portfolio companies.
He served as Group Chief Executive of BP from 1995 to 2007, after having joined the company in 1966 as a university apprentice.
In 2007, Lord Browne joined Riverstone, where he was co-head of the world's largest renewable energy private equity fund until 2015. He is currently Chairman of Wintershall Dea, Europe's largest independent oil and gas company. He is independent co-Chairman of the Prime Minister's Council on Science and Technology, Chairman of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, Chairman of the Courtauld Institute of Art, and a past President of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
Lord Browne was the UK Government's Lead Non-Executive Board Member from 2010 to 2015. He was knighted in 1998 and made a life peer in 2001. Lord Browne is the author of five books.
Lord Browne joins General Atlantic as Senior Advisor[Official Bio] (April 2021)
https://www.generalatlantic.com/media-article/lord-browne-joins-general-atlantic-as-senior-advisor-focused-on-climate-and-net-zero/
Saving the planet needs faith and science (May 2021)
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/saving-the-planet-needs-faith-and-science-v2bzrl28z
Make, Think, Imagine: Engineering the Future of Civilisation (2019)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1526605716?ie=UTF8&tag=finantimes-21&camp=1634&linkCode=xm2&creativeASIN=1526605716
Michael Liebreich: Before we start, if you're enjoying these conversations, please make sure that you like or subscribe to Cleaning Up, it really helps other people to find us. Cleaning Up is brought to you by the Liebreich Foundation and the Gilardini Foundation. Hello, I'm Michael Liebreich, and this is Cleaning Up. My guest today is Lord Browne of Madingley, John Browne. He was CEO of BP between 1995 and 2007 and he's now the senior adviser to General Atlantic on climate change, and net zero. Let's bring Lord Browne into the conversation. So, Lord Browne, John, welcome to Cleaning Up.
John Browne: Thank you very much. It's good to be with you.
ML: It's wonderful to see you, and where whereabouts are you? And how have you been spending the last 18 months or so during the pandemic?
JB: So, I'm in my house in Chelsea, London, I'm actually sitting in the mews house, which is my office on top of a library that I have here. And I've been here pretty well all in all for 18 months. Actually, this is a genuine setting. It's not an artificial background. And it has authenticity. And so everyone's seen it for 18 months, I have occasionally been out.
ML: And have you ever had in your life a period like this with so little travel, ever?
JB: Never, actually never. Because I even when I was born, I was born in Hamburg. And within a year, we were travelling to Denmark, and then back to Hamburg. And then my whole life. My parents were in the Far East and Middle East, and I travelled to them. So, this is the longest period I've been without travel.
ML: I think that goes for me as well and feels the same. It's an extraordinary, surreal period. One of the questions that I asked Tony Blair when he came on to Cleaning Up , it was episode I think 38, and we talked about the pandemic, and lessons from the pandemic for climate change, and those working on climate change. Is that something you think is a strong parallel or not?
JB: Well I think there are parallels, it's not necessarily a purely perfect match. But I think what it's taught us is, number one, we really can respond to a crisis. And climate change is a crisis. So, we've understood how to respond to a climate change, to a crisis. And number two, I think we've figured out that existential threats are very important. That may sound like a tautology in some ways. But it's explained to us that we need to do things when the health and life of humans is threatened. And I think we've learned that deeply. Actually, I think the surveys now show that the attention to climate change, the concern about climate change, has risen consistently over the period of the pandemic.
ML: But how do we deal with sort of the time asymmetry, because with the pandemic, it was happening, and people were dying, and it was a crisis, that it was very hard to deny that it's a crisis. But with climate change even there though there are the fingerprints of climate, in various natural disasters, fires, floods, storms, those sorts, but it's still, the noise still overwhelms the signal. And the really bad things won't happen until the second half of the century or even next century, just given the lags in the system. So, you say that climate is a crisis, but it's kind of a crisis which hits later. And that makes it very difficult and different, does it not?
JB: It does. And that's why for a long time, I said the word crisis is the wrong word. But actually, it's a crisis with a slow burn. And it's really important that we take the second lesson, I think, importantly, which is we are concerned as a human race about things that threaten our health and life. And I think that's the purpose of doing something about climate change. It is to re-quote James Lovelock, it is not about saving the earth, it is about saving humanity's place on the earth. And I think that's something we've learned. Can we do something about it in time remains to be seen. This is where great political leadership is needed, and great incentives are needed. It's more than words, we can't just signal our virtue, we need incentives placed in front of us so the business and people can respond in the right way during the period that this crisis is really building up.
ML: That's right, because sometimes I feel like a character in a cartoon where the fuse has been lit to the dynamite and the character is still partying and having fun. And then something or maybe I'm the character trying to warn or working with those that are trying to warn that bad things are going to happen eventually. But it is hard to get a sense of urgency in this situation, is it not?
JB: Well, that's why you need great political leadership, which can be an act of incentives and disincentives to change the way in which we behave as a human race, visibly the climate or the atmosphere.
ML: And we'll get back to the question of leadership, I'm quite sure. But the other thing you've been doing during this last 18 months is you've taken on a new role with General Atlantic. And perhaps you could explain because our listeners will not all know who they are and what they do. But perhaps you can explain that. And then what your role is.
JB: Well, General Atlantic is a very long standing private equity firm headquartered in the United States, with offices all over the world. It's been at its business for over 40 years. And it's been pretty successful during those 40 years. And it was established by a billionaire who really wanted to give away most of his money. And it's had very few CEOs. And they've all come from, as it turns out, Stanford University or Stanford Business School. And it's very fine set of people. So, it's quite big. And it really is a great example of private equity in what it should be. Because it invests in growth, it doesn't invest in <inaudible>, it doesn't take CEOs and entrepreneurs and say, we'll buy you when you can get out the way, it actually works hand in hand with entrepreneurs and leaders to grow their companies. So that's General Atlantic, and they have realized that they need to do so much more to do with the climate. In particular, what are the actual things the portfolio companies are doing to damage or improve the climate? And what are they doing in the general space of ESG? In a practical way, so practical approach to ESG, practical approach to climate, and they asked me to be a senior advisor, and I accepted given the track record of the firm.
ML: Very good. Now I'd like to talk about that net zero. You've said it beyond net zero. I love the branding, because of course, at various points in your life you've done beyond petroleum, and then your book, not the one that I've got behind me here, but the first, I think, I believe your first book, which was Beyond Business, so there's a nice parallelism there. But let's talk about that transition to net zero. Can you characterize it? What will it look like? And where are we on the long arc from, let's say, 1990, when it was really not something that was on the cards, and then you've taken it through your period as CEO of BP, all the way through now to where we sit? Can you give us some sense of the arc of history in that transition?
JB: Well, let me if I may just talk about behavior, first of all, because when I took this on, I in 1997, I started at Stanford University, and gave a speech to say that the oil and gas companies are part of the problem here, we've got to stop generating carbon dioxide emissions and do something about it. And of course, at that time, I was pretty well expelled by the American Petroleum Institute that said, I had a voluntary left the church. So, I didn't quite know what church that was. However, attitudes have come a long way since then, a long, long way. I remember when I set up the Riverstone Renewable Fund, Renewable 2 in 2007. Almost everyone in private equity, for example, would say, well, they're just a bunch of tree huggers that are gonna lose all our money. It turned out actually, that fund had better performance than any oil and gas fund at that time. And it's not a good time, 07-08. But it worked out pretty well. So attitudes have changed quite a lot I would say. Where we are on a very long arc because when you look at net zero, what I think we're really trying to do is not just adjust the energy inputs, we're trying to decarbonize everything, we're trying to become more efficient in that process. So, more energy efficient, we're trying to conserve resources. And we're trying to abate and eliminate emissions while measuring all of the above. So, if you describe it like that, it actually is an industrial revolution. It's an industrial revolution. And I'm not an economic historian. But I do recall, it takes time even when coal was introduced, and it made a person 70 times more powerful than that <inaudible>. And even when gasoline was introduced, as a motor spirit, recall, it was trying to compete with electricity at the time, the first cars were electric. And the gasoline was sold on the basis, it was rather more macho than a silent electric car. So, but it took time for all of these to take off. Now, you'd expect any therefore, industrial revolution, I picked those two as important ones to take off. But the same is true, you know, with digital revolution. I mean, people have now forgotten that Thomas Watson, I think said, in regard to the computers that IBM was making at the time, there's probably room for five of them in the world. And even when I was on the board of Intel Corporation with the great Andy Grove, our aspiration was a billion connected devices, a billion. I mean, we have many, many, many fold that I mean, everything is connected, you know, trivially your fridge, but everything is connected. So, but it's taken 50 years, probably from 50 years that <inaudible> as a revolution. Now, we don't have that time. We need to accelerate it; we need to tunnel through some of the ways of doing things. And but it is the Industrial Revolution, nonetheless. Everything we do, will have to be changed in one way or other. Whether it's flying, whether it's shipping, whether it's being in your house, whether it's using a boiler or heat pump, you name it, it's got to change.
ML: So, this question of how quickly things can change is a fascinating one. Because that's Vaclav Smil the great economist, I think he's Bill Gates, his famous economist, favorite economist, and he is, you know, full of, of, I know, he's very scathing, about those who say that any sort of energy transition can happen quickly. But I'm very struck by within sectors and countries, things go very, very fast. So if you go from Norwegian cars, they went from 1% or 2% with plugs to 70% or 80%, with plugs in about eight years, okay, extreme example. But UK coal 42% to 2%, in six or seven years, LED light bulbs from 1% or 2% to 50% or 60% of lightbulbs in five or six or seven years. So, there's this tension between overall I think Smil right is going to take 50, 60 of your comments just now, you know, would suggest a very long transition but it's very quick, if you can be wrong footed still, as a business person, if you get it wrong, and just say it'll be slow, you can be very much wrong footed, can you not?
JB: Absolutely, you know, some things can be changed of course, with public policy, you know, you get the thing about public policy, it can change the speed of time <inaudible> can't change the arrow of time, but it sort of compresses it somewhat. And you know, a set of incentives or penalties, like carbon prices, carbon taxes, capital incentive programs, you know, not taxing everything up front, but taxing at the back end, it accelerates plenty of things. Actually, a lot of these tools and techniques have been used on the oil & gas industry over a many, many years and they can be applied to many capital intensive activities, which is a lot of what the industrial revolution will involve. So, it seems to me, you know, you can make choices now, every choice you make, of course, has a consequence, you know, so it changes the total cost of an input or an output. And you've got to think carefully about is that a regressive tax or not? And is it acceptable politically? How do you do this? Is it a sin tax or not a sin tax? What is it? So, I think there are plenty of decisions to be made. And I think you can accelerate, probably a bit more of it, than we may think. Clearly, you know, we are not going to eliminate coal and gas at the flick of a switch. So, we have a choice, either we let that produce the carbon dioxide and methane, which would be we have to offset somewhere else. Or else we try and capture it all, bury the carbon dioxide, and forbid people from emitting methane, even inadvertently, from any source. Probably, we have to do both. And we should get on and do it. We know how to make carbon free hydrocarbons. It's just expensive. And maybe that's where public policy can come in, to just make that so make it so in the first instance, and then get on with the rest of the more complicated things we've got to do. We need to realize that some amount, and I, you know, it's impossible to predict how much, some amount of our energy will have to come from hydrocarbons for a reasonable number of years. Because that's where it comes 80% comes from it today. And we can't just switch it off like that the system is too big, too complex, for it to be adjusted in any way, significantly.
ML: So we've got much of the world which is now talking about net zero 2050. committing to in COP26 at the end of this year, in Glasgow, they're going to be lodging their nationally determined contributions, which is the formal plan that will lock that in as their goals. We've got other countries China, Brazil going for 2060. Between them that 78% of the global economy, that's a big chunk of the global economy shooting for either 2050 or 2060. Is it realistic? Is it realistic to think that the planet, the global economy can get to net zero? So net zero emissions, taking into account carbon capture, reforestation, but also dramatic reductions in emissions. If you were a betting man, which I don't think you are, which year would you think we could get there by?
JB: I think we could get there sometime around 2050. But the conditions to get that are rather significant. First, we have to get on now. Absolutely now. Secondly, we do have to have some form, let me say I don't believe in global government, it doesn't work, but some form of regional approach to disincentives and incentives, some form of that. And I think that's important. So, I suppose you know, COP26, will be another important leadership act. So, everyone will say we're going to do it, which is good. It's a signal which people can follow. But then we've got to think about some of the things we can do globally. And not a lot because I don't think anyone is going to allow the EU to lecture the US or the US to lecture the UK or the UK to lecture China or China to lecture Japan, everybody's going to do their own thing. But I think there are some common elements that we could get right. Not least probably the way we measure it, for example, that's probably quite important. I do think that all that sort of stuff can come out of COP26, which is at least we have a sort of level playing field of what we're actually doing. And I'm very struck by my own experience about, you know, the shambles we have at the moment on measuring or reporting methane, you know, the numbers could be up by a factor of 10. So what's the point of the number? You know, if it's up by one order of magnitude it's not very good. So that needs to be sorted out. But beyond that, you know, I think it's going to be a lot of activity, which needs to be done locally, and that means local policy, but it does need global deployment of technology. An interestingly, you know, the number, how do you really measure this number, but somewhere between 60% and 80% of the technologies we need to get the net down to net zero probably exists today. They're just not deployed at scale, which means that they are too expensive. There isn't a learning curve, the more we deploy, the more we optimize, the more we can get it right. So deploying technologies are important. And can we find ways of helping people to deploy technologies in the most polluting areas, and not waste a lot of time really trying to get up the last point 0.001% in a place, which is doing pretty well. So, you know, Kyoto tried that with this clean development mechanism. That was terrible, because the rules were basically not clear. People were taken for a ride on it basically, not good. So can we find some mechanism to do that? So, rules, deployment of technology, get rid of some barriers. Can we deploy to high, you know, high impact areas? These I think are interesting global questions. What is not interesting, is trying to enforce things globally, it's very difficult.
ML: Okay, so I definitely accept all of that, for those technologies, which will become, the clean technologies that will become cheaper. So, I think of it as broadly, let's call it two thirds, or three quarters of the problem will yield because ultimately, engineers are really smart and the learning curve works. And these are all, these are all technologies that yield to learning. So they're material science, they're software, they're mechanical engineering, kind of at worst, which you know, the mechanical engineer, so that's fine. They're not resource sector. So, we'll see these learning curves. And that will solve a big part of the problem, I do think it will be more than half, maybe as much as three quarters, but I want to hone in on the other, let's call it quarter, the sort of the tough quarter where, with the best will in the world, the clean solution is going to cost more, I mean, natural gas is just a great way and a cheap way of heating, flying, making synthetic fuels for flying is probably going to remain more expensive than synthetic fuels. And then there's industrial processes, it might be cement, or it might be steel, or whatever, where it'll just cost more. I don't want to say forever, because that's a big word. But beyond 2050, surely, how do we make sure that those sectors get to zero? And not just in the rich countries with great, you know, political will to do this, but around the world?
JB: Well, the answer is, I don't know. You're right. There are some things that are just going to cost more. Can we incentivize people to innovate? The answer is, yes we can. Because who knows, maybe we can replace some steel with wood, which is made into a composite with the adhesive or bonding agent made from all seven grades of plastic recycled. You could do it today, actually, but it's expensive and most people would also be worried that it wasn't as good as steel, but it might be. So, I think innovation will be slightly longer term, but it will create new products. And there's no point in hitting your head against a brick wall, trying to do the same thing again, and again, thinking you're getting a different answer is, as they say, a sign of madness. So, we have to find very different ways of doing things. And I think that, you know, there will be breakthroughs, I still think if we half the half, so you say 25% left, where we get half of that, there's still going to be 12.5%, which is going to be expensive. It's just going to be expensive. I agree with your flying, you know, we'll probably have to use biofuels very carefully made, you can probably make them a little bit more expensive. kerosene, but since you will have no choice. It's one of those things and flying might just get more expensive, may just get more expensive.
ML: Well, I'm putting mine of one of our great trips that we took together when we're on you're invited me onto the Accenture Energy Board and we went to the Oakridge National Lab and saw them essentially, researching still biofuels out of I think it was coppice willow or poplar, I think about right…
JB: They were trees that bent a lot. So, they were easier to manage, you know, I don't think it went anywhere. But there are plenty of other sources. You know, if I may, for example, one of the things, almost everything you can think of in engineering is amenable to the learning curve. And to the experience curve, almost all, there's one big exception. And it's at nuclear power stations, actually, the more you build, the more expensive they become. Now, there is a reason it's changing, regulation and things like that, but also, they're very complex plants that are built on site. So if we can figure out a way, as Bill Gates is thinking, and there's plenty of work being done in the UK at the moment, about smaller, not small, smaller, and modular nuclear reactors that can be effectively built in a factory, shrink wrapped, taken to a site, site needs all sorts of <inaudible> and things like that around it, protecting your site and installed and then come back to the factory to be decommissioned, then we may have a very different approach to nuclear, which could be an interesting solution, but it's not proven and it's not licensed yet. But who knows what will happen?
ML: So I had a wonderful conversation about exactly this with Steven Chu, the Energy Secretary, President Obama's first Energy Secretary. And we talked about this, and it was marvelous, and it was so interesting. And then I asked him whether he thought it would produce nuclear power affordably and he essentially said no. But he thought we should try it anyway. Because of course, if you don't try, then definitely the answer is no.
JB: I think it would be more affordable than trying to do the same thing, again, that we've used. And these will only be amenable really, on sites where you already have the apparatus to have a reactor, we're just taking your old one away.
ML: But let me talk about then let's come to the oil companies, your special subject on mastermind here. But you've got BP the company that you grew, is probably if it's not the most progressive or the most if it's not in the I don't know whether the word is progressive. But if it's not leading the net zero charge, it's certainly you know, up there in the leading group. When you look at, for instance, the forecasts that they published last year, which was that the base case was for oil demand, really never to get through 100 million barrels a day and then to start declining. And then they have other cases, which are even more aggressive falls in oil. What do you think? I mean, if I can almost ask, how do you feel when you see that as the person most closely associated with having built that company?
JB: So I'm not surprised. We never really even when I was running BP, we never subscribed to the demand for oil going much above 100 million barrels a day, we really didn't. You know, there were lots of official forecasters through the roof. But with one thing and another, we just reminded ourselves that I think the oil intensity to unit of GDP, keeps dropping by about one and a half percent a year. And there's no reason why that shouldn't accelerate with the changes in the digital revolution and things like that which was even on the cards that and they add a bit of climate change and conservation to it, then you're going to be below 100 million. So, I think under all cases, oil is ex growth. Gas probably is ex growth later, but it's ex growth. So, the question is how, how ex growth is it? And it depends on I think things we've already talked about: can you decarbonize the hydrocarbons. If you can't, then I think policy will direct a faster decline than otherwise. So, I think one it's ex-growth two is the rate of decline will be a function of substitution by other technologies. And that's, that takes time given the number of Joules which are produced with oil and gas. And so it's a matter of, you know, what can you do to the hydrocarbons in between not using them and using them today? So, the decline rate's there, without any doubt.
ML: But if you look at Shell has just lost this court case, I've no doubt that they'll appeal and I wouldn't be surprised if they were to win the appeal, but the Dutch court for the moment has said, Shell, the plans, Shell's net zero plans, are insufficiently aggressive, insufficiently clear. And they have to go back and come back with a plan for 45% reduction in emissions by 2030. They're going to have to sell assets, particularly, yes, if they appeal, then 25% reduction. But if it's 45%, even more, so these all of these companies are going to have to sell assets to get there, they're not going to decommission the assets, they're going to sell them, are they not.
JB: They are and as a as a citizen of the world, you'd say, well, this actually does nothing for us at all. Because anyway, you know, four fifths of oil and gas are produced by state owned enterprises of one form or the other in the world, and they are on very own very different trajectory to the listed companies, which are prone to pressure, correctly so, from their investors. So, there's a two-track activity going on here anyway, so Shell, Exxon, BP, people like that. Actually, you know, even if they got closed down, chances are the rest of the world could make up for the loss of production for what we actually need. So they are important, of course, because their investments, but on a global scale, it they're not as important as people think. And I'm always reminded, I was very much reminded that when I was running BP, you know, I started life as one of the seven sisters. And ended life as simply an industrial company that was making money in order to fund pension funds. And that's what we really did every day, we funded people's pensions. So now, they have to decide what to do with this ex growth idea. BP's decided to diversify, as indeed has Shell and Total and Chevron's beginning, and they're beginning to say, well, maybe energy is our seam and we can go from oil and gas to electricity, and other related activities. This is actually quite a big bridge across. But it's possible. But everyone says, let's wait and see. Let's wait and see, does it actually work? Can it produce comparable returns to oil and gas? Although that's in itself a very unusual thing to think about, the oil and gas returns are somewhat volatile. So, can it actually do that? And can they, as the companies, get the skills and credibility to do this on a scale which is significant? And are we prepared to let them diversify? Because last time this happened, I was still in the oil industry at the beginning of my career in the oil industry, is when the Club of Rome said, oil would run out by the year 2000. So, it was ex growth. Last time it was ex growth. The oil and gas companies decided to diversify. But they really did diversify. Montgomery Ward and all sorts of things. I imagine, BP became the biggest charcuterie producer in Europe, for example, amongst other things. So, all of that happened. In fact, we went BP went into minerals sold eventually to Rio Tinto, which really effectively made we Rio Tinto the company that it is today. So, you know, I don't know whether history will repeat itself, probably won't. But one has to be careful when one decides to diversify. Make sure the reasons are right. And you can afford to do it because these new businesses take a lot of money to keep going.
ML: They do and I suppose that's one of the most interesting, as a spectator sport, it'll be fascinating to see whether the right strategy turns out to be managed the core business for decline in cash, or to try to diversify, as you say, the European oil and gas companies are attempting to do.
JB: It's very difficult. I remember the late Sir Patrick Sheehy, was a director of BP, he was also the chairman of British American Tobacco. He very early recognized that the tobacco business was ex growth, he thought it was going to be pushed out of business and diversified into insurance that didn't work and the investors said, actually, we will have insurance companies, and you can be stuck with tobacco and just give us the dividends. It's still around paying lots and lots of dividends. But a very different business compared with the one that he ran all those many years ago.
ML: John, we've got about five minutes left. And I want to switch gears slightly and talk about the operating conditions for executives, because you had this brilliant career with and then a very public end to that career. And now you've you wouldn't be operating in a very different environment today, throughout that entire period, because of social media. Does that, would that have changed anything in how you either ran the business? Or, how you dealt with then with your resignation from BP?
JB: So I think, you know, one thing, I was surrounded by people who, who kept reminding me correctly, absolutely correctly, that there were plenty of stakeholders in the business, it wasn't just the shareholders. And I think that was especially the case in oil and gas at the time I was operating. You know, politics mattered. Political relationships mattered, the media mattered, because, you know, people outside the UK, read things. So, I was very sensitive to stakeholders. And I think the same would apply today, but at a heightened level. I think gone are the days although I do hear these conversations with CEOs gone are the days where you can just say, well, you know, I'm just in the business to make money. This is not true. You're in the business, to sustain making money and to serve the many people that you touch, including your investors. I wrote a book about it called Connect, because I was so angry about it being simply an idea you tacked on to the end of it. I had Howard Davis as one of my interviewees. He said, oh, yes, well, this is the sort of stuff that boards used to deal with at 4.30 on a Friday afternoon, you know, and so it is actually, to the center of strategy, how I would have dealt with my resignation, probably the same way. It was all over the press, it was leaking. And, you know, and I just decided that I just didn't want to be a campaign object. And I made some errors of judgement. And it was correct to resign at the time, in my view, and I still would have done the same thing today.
ML: So in business, what you're saying is it's not as though us, you or other business leaders at the time, we're operating kind of without engagement with stakeholders, this kind of vision of old school business, people just in smoke filled rooms, doing deals, not caring about other that was not the case anyway.
JB: So what are people the tendency was to try and get into smoke filled rooms again, and again, you know, lots of these meetings, closed meetings with CEOs only. I think they're wrong. I mean, we have to be much more transparent, much more.
ML: And in business, it's now clear that there's been a, that sort of old school way of doing things just simply now does not work. That's absolutely clear. But there are other sectors where, where people still, LBGT cannot come out, cannot be public. So I'm thinking of sports, you know, there's the Euro 2020 championships. I don't think there's one out gay professional footballer.
JB: Strangely, the correlation is they only become gay when they retire. You know, it, that's almost true. So, you know, look, I think we've come a long way in business. Not the whole way. I think people understand the meaning of equality and inclusion leading to diversity. I think there's been a lot of pressure. And I think people have figured out that actually, if you include everybody, your chances are, you get better performance because you get team bonding. To include you have to include everybody, and you're always tested on your weakest link. So, if people see you exclude in one thing, they think you're not involved in teams. Now that happens for a lot of the world in business. It doesn't happen where people are worried about the customers, the fans, they worry that anything which isn't down the line, exactly the way it's always used to be gets in the way. Same is true in Hollywood. Same is true in football, all sorts of sport, not all sport, in swimming, diving, and there are some individual contributor sports where it's okay, it's where a team is involved. They don't want to open that up, I hope they do. And certainly, the fans need to be pulled out of this idea that they can scream and say to people they're gay and they are "fags". And because that's a way of expressing their anger or expressing their support for the other side. So, this is wrong, and it must be stopped.
ML: But there's another arena where all this is very difficult. And that is in the development arena. Obviously, you've written in your book, about the Glass Closet, the book that you wrote about all of this, you wrote about operating in the developing world, there's a lot of countries where it's actually illegal to be gay. And you talk about the tension of moving people around from a business perspective, expats who are stationed in those countries. But you know, I do a lot of work with the UN, I'm very struck by the marvelous SDGs, you know, 17 SDGs, 169 targets, not one mention of LBGT. And so quite clearly, that's an arena that is, I don't know, is stuck in the past the right word? Or it's not yet, you know, a place where these this, there's not even the conversation about these issues.
JB: And the same is true with many churches, many faiths as well, because the cultural mores of different parts of the world, just basically have excluded any idea of anything other than, you know, a man and a woman together making babies. And that's it. So, I think you've got to be careful with, if I may just in business, your prime objective with people is that you must keep them safe. So, while you can do all this in the UK, or in most of the US, to send someone to Uganda and encourage them to come out and be openly gay, would be I think foolish, it could potentially risk that person, put them at risk for bodily harm, all sorts of things like that. So, you have to be careful about how you do this and wise about the context in which we're operating one. Regrettably, one rule does not cover everybody. Hopefully, it will one day, but right now it doesn't.
ML: But I guess my question is why, or what would it take for the UN to lead on this rather than effectively to ignore the issue?
JB: They need to gather consensus, although I would think with the major countries, they could get that they really could get that. There remain, I think, only 35 or 50 countries where it is illegal to be gay, and have sexual relationships with the same sex, mostly men only. And so that leaves quite a lot of other countries that could say, we'll do something about it. And indeed, they're beginning to. So I think it requires a push from, you know, from probably from the members of the Security Council, if they could just do that. So that they could say this is okay, it is not criminal. And in the words of Pope Francis, who am I to comment, who am I to comment, you know.
ML: So, we are unfortunately running over on time. I'd like to thank you for appearing on Cleaning Up spending this time with me also talking just over such a wide range of topics. And particularly the last one, you and I have not spoken about, but I have been following very carefully you're campaigning on the issue. And it's an issue that I also try to do my best to support those in my teams. Diversity of all sorts has been a big part of New Energy Finance. I don't know if you know, that at one point, I think three of my four top executives were gay. And when you mentored me, and when you became our biggest champion, I think you were then, you may not have known that, but I thank you for your time on the show. And I thank you for your support throughout the last 20 years that I've been doing this.
JB: Well, it's always been, it has been a pleasure. I hope it continues to be a pleasure. And it's great to see you still involved in something which is so important to us. You're one of your core foundations. You were early in new energy, you're still there. We need all the help in the world we can get and you're just great at it.
ML: Thank you very much.
JB: Thank you.
ML: So that was Lord Browne, former CEO of BP, and now senior advisor to General Atlantic on net zero and climate change.
Ep72: Nathan Gambling 'Solving the Low Carbon Skills Gap'
Ep71: Pasquale Romano 'The Man in Charge of Charging'
Ep70: Ban Ki-moon 'The Planet's Leading Diplomat'
Ep69: Peter Sweatman 'Our Savings Will Save the Planet'
Ep68: Amory Lovins 'The Einstein of Energy Efficiency'
Ep67: Mariana Mazzucato 'Mission Economist'
Ep66: David Sandalow 'US China - strategic rivals, climate partners'
Ep65: Dan Doctoroff 'Cities, Service, and Cities-as-a-Service'
Ep64: Guy Turner 'Good COP, bad COP?'

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Today, this week, this month...it's all been one challenge after another.
Work, my health, love....all pushing me to the point of screaming and running away.
How much can I fight?
How much can I endure?
What happened to my roar?
How can I embrace that quiet voice inside me saying "try again tomorrow"?
So I've heard before that your purse should match your body type/size. That if you are a plus-size woman you should carry larger purses (and smaller built women should carry smaller). That it's all about proportion and balance.
Some of these declarations/articles (such as this saleclothes.org article) make some good points about how a bag on your hips will accentuate that area but statements like "Never ever use a small handbag if you have a plus size figure. As we said above, toting a small purse will only call attention to your size" always just rubs me the wrong way.
Which is maybe when Style has No size posted a blog called "Bags have no size!!" it made me smile. It's true though, I don't ever have to walk into a store and worry about if they'll have "my size" purse.
Maybe it's because I'm a purse fanatic. I honestly can't tell you how many I have in my closet. Different colors, different styles, different sizes but all me. Just because my body is a size 26 doesn't mean I should be fashionably restricted to larger bags. That's the same mind thought that says I shouldn't wear stripes, mini skirts or tight clothes.
Forget that! I'll buy and wear what I want - whether it's a shirt, dress, purse or earrings. I say buy what you like and stay sassy.
1950s Calendar Girls. The original victims of photoshop?
Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is -great way to explain male privilege to gamers.


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"...[the executive producer] brought his own special make-up effects team comprised of Ingrid Okola and Marissa Masella, so I brought Rod Durick, my SFX supervisor on SCM, and author of Filming the Undead: How to Make Your Own Zombie Movie, on as a set carpenter; he built a coffin with breakaway sides, an important closet, and a false wall for his basement, which served as a key location. He also became the landlord for Debbie, Ingrid, Marissa, and David Marancik (an actor in the film and our set photographer). After talking shop with Ingrid and Marissa, Rod was enlisted to serve on the SFX team as well, and everyone was pleased with his work. The things that man can do with a banana…"
--Greg Lamberson, Line Producer and 1st Assitant Director on MODEL HUNGER.
MODEL HUNGER is the directorial debut of genre actress and horror legend, Debbie Rochon. Written and produced by James Morgart (WON TON BABY), MODEL HUNGER features an all star cast and crew of genre royalty. Lynn Lowry, Tiffany Shepis, Brian Fortune, Voltaire and many other famillar faces round out the cast.
Zombified Studios very own Rod Durick was given the honor of working alongside of a stellar assembly of talent that signed on to bring MODEL HUNGER to life.
Rod was originally hired as a carpenter, but soon moved up to landlord, then in short order was hired on as part of the makeup team. The blood stains are never going to come off of his basement walls but, oddly enough, he's ok with that... Ingrid Okola and Marissa Masella did most of the heavy lifting when it came to the makeup and effects, but Rod came in with some gags and props that were exactly what the production needed. He was also the go to guy when it came to tying people up in his basement!
There will be some things in this movie that you have NEVER seen before.
We were honored to be a part of this film.
Look for MODEL HUNGER some time in 2013!


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`zstd_decompress.c` is a self-contained implementation in C99 of a decoder,
according to the [Zstandard format specification].
While it does not implement as many features as the reference decoder,
such as the streaming API or content checksums, it is written to be easy to
follow and understand, to help understand how the Zstandard format works.
It's laid out to match the [format specification],
so it can be used to understand how complex segments could be implemented.
It also contains implementations of Huffman and FSE table decoding.

[Zstandard format specification]: https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/dev/doc/zstd_compression_format.md
[format specification]: https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/dev/doc/zstd_compression_format.md

`harness.c` provides a simple test harness around the decoder:

    harness <input-file> <output-file> [dictionary]

As an additional resource to be used with this decoder,
see the `decodecorpus` tool in the [tests] directory.
It generates valid Zstandard frames that can be used to verify
a Zstandard decoder implementation.
Note that to use the tool to verify this decoder implementation,
the --content-size flag should be set,
as this decoder does not handle streaming decoding,
and so it must know the decompressed size in advance.

[tests]: https://github.com/facebook/zstd/blob/dev/tests/

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Kick off the 350th anniversary of The House of the Seven Gables with a unique staged reading experience of Nathaniel Hawthorne's famed novel. Watch the characters come to life and explore themes of greed and guilt in Puritan New England.
This production was written by local playwright JF Dacey and will be produced by John Fogle.
The reading will take place in two acts. There will be a short intermission with refreshments for sale.


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FoodHub is fast becoming the "Facebook of local food"
) pairs food service professionals who want to buy local food with growers and processors wanting to sell it. With a new version of the online marketplace set to be released in a few weeks, we decided to get the details from Deborah Kane, Ecotrust's vice-president of food and farms.
FoodHub is a new online directory and marketplace that makes it possible for regional food buyers and sellers -- professionals, not consumers -- to quickly and easily find each other, connect and do business. Some people call it the Facebook of local food, or the Match.com for food buyers and food sellers.
Q: How many users do you have, and who are they?
As of today (Aug. 19) FoodHub boasts 611 members. On the buyer side it's everybody from restaurants to caterers to hospitals to schools to resorts. On the seller side, it's anyone large or small producing or processing food in the Northwest, from fruits and vegetables to dairy, meat and fish. It's big packers and processors, little companies making jams or pickles, wineries and distilleries. And it's not just for the certified organic operator; it's for Northwest agriculture of all kinds.
Buyers and sellers purchase an annual membership ($100) and create an online profile -- who you are and how you like to do business. A restaurant might talk about products they like to buy and say, "We receive deliveries on Tuesdays and Thursdays between 6 and 9 a.m.; we need to have orders locked in by Friday noon."
On the seller's side, they might talk about minimum order amounts, payment information and give detailed information about specific products they have for sale. There's also information about seasonality, a chart that shows what's possible to buy at certain times of the year.
Q: Walk me through a transaction.
If you're a buyer looking for corn, you type in the word corn, add a specific variety if you want, and FoodHub will return a list of all the people in the system with corn in their profile, both buyers and sellers. We want to give users a search result as well as encourage networking.
Then there's a feature called Marketplace; it's the Craigslist of the local food system, where people post information about time-sensitive opportunities. For example, today I see a post saying, "We have arugula ready to go right now. Deliver in Seattle area. Must move. 10 to 15 pounds available." The post right under it is from Nostrana (restaurant), seeking 15 pounds of eggplant, any variety, and two cases of sweet corn, delivered by Aug. 21.
The FoodHub community uses Marketplace for all kinds of things, like transportation needs. An ice cream maker in Puget Sound was running refrigerated trucks into Seattle for deliveries, then coming home empty. It was looking for someone to use that refrigerated space on the return trips. A Willamette Valley seed grower had lost all his beet stock in the freeze, and did a shout-out to all the farmers in valley, looking for storage beets.
Q: Is anything else out there like this?
Print directories for local (wholesale) food buyers and sellers exist across the country. People all over are trying to create closer connections, but I know of only a handful that have taken the next step and brought it online. As a result, we're getting phone calls left and right from people who are curious whether or not it would be possible to export FoodHub into their region. We decided to build FoodHub with open-source technology so it could be easily transferred and adapted by local experts once they got the baseline platform from us. But we're very committed to making sure FoodHub hums in the Pacific Northwest. It'll be at least a year before we focus on sharing the information.
Q: The new version of FoodHub comes out in a few weeks. What's different?
We'll be unveiling FoodHub 2.0 at the Oregon Restaurant and Lodging Association annual meeting in Bend on Sept. 19. The site will have a new look, and the home page is being redesigned to include a lot more information, things like, "So you want to buy local food? Watch this tutorial," or "Look at these 10 best practices."
When we launched FoodHub in February we thought we had a pretty robust list of products that could potentially be for sale in our region. It took about 24 hours for the first FoodHub member to tell us we forgot this one variety of leek, or missed two varieties of parsnips even though we had nine. The taxonomy, or the list of products, has probably tripled since we launched.
So version 2.0 has a much improved and streamlined product management interface. The school food service director who wants basic apples and asparagus can ask for that, but the chef who wants Jersey Knight asparagus and Cortland apples can specify his needs down to variety.
We're going to continue to roll out new features every month, such as more matchmaking for FoodHub users. We'll have a feature that notifies by e-mail all the eggplant producers, for instance, when a post from someone looking for eggplant goes up. We'll give suggestions about how to increase chances that a user's profile will be viewed.
Q: Where do you see it going from here?
I'd like FoodHub to look at distribution amounts and transportation efficiency. You'll have five farmers that are running the same route into Portland. We feel like we have an opportunity to really start playing with how we can maximize efficiencies. So that maybe instead of five trucks, we can get it down to two. Those five farmers may not even realize they're running the same route, but we can see it in our system.
Q: What are some of the strangest things you've seen posted on FoodHub?
Somebody came into the marketplace and said, "Does anyone want my excess duck fat? Will sell cheap, or work out a trade." Right now I see: "Need 17.5 pounds of chicken livers." "Seeking local octopus." "Sun-cured candy sweet onions for sale." "It's not too early to order your gourmet lamb or your Thanksgiving turkey."


Din NU et al (2015) Age and Gender Variations in Cancer Diagnostic Intervals in 15 Cancers: Analysis of Data from the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink.
Ridd MJ et al (2015) Patient-doctor continuity and diagnosis of cancer: electronic medical records study in general practice.
These are publications derived from Discovery research data and databases and/ or research collaborations with other research staff outside the Discovery programme.
Age and Gender Variations in Cancer Diagnostic Intervals in 15 Cancers: Analysis of Data from the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink. Din NU, Ukoumunne OC, Rubin G, Hamilton W, Carter B, Stapley S, Neal RD. PLoS One. 2015 May 15;10(5):e0127717. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0127717. eCollection 2015.
Time from symptomatic presentation to cancer diagnosis (diagnostic interval) is an important, and modifiable, part of the patient's cancer pathway, and can be affected by various factors such as age, gender and type of presenting symptoms. The aim of this study was to quantify the relationships of diagnostic interval with these variables in 15 cancers diagnosed between 2007 and 2010 using routinely collected data from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) in the UK.
18,618 newly diagnosed cancer patients aged ≥40 who had a recorded symptom in the preceding year were included in the analysis. Mean diagnostic interval was greater for older patients in four disease sites (difference in days per 10 year increase in age; 95% CI): bladder (10.3; 5.5 to 15.1; P<0.001), kidney (11.0; 3.4 to 18.6; P=0.004), leukaemia (18.5; 8.8 to 28.1; P<0.001) and lung (10.1; 6.7 to 13.4; P<0.001). There was also evidence of longer diagnostic interval in older patients with colorectal cancer (P<0.001). However, we found that mean diagnostic interval was shorter with increasing age in two cancers: gastric (-5.9; -11.7 to -0.2; P=0.04) and pancreatic (-6.0; -11.2 to -0.7; P=0.03). Diagnostic interval was longer for females in six of the gender non-specific cancers (mean difference in days; 95% CI): bladder (12.2; 0.8 to 23.6; P=0.04), colorectal (10.4; 4.3 to 16.5; P=0.001), gastric (14.3; 1.1 to 27.6; P=0.03), head and neck (31.3; 6.2 to 56.5; P=0.02), lung (8.0; 1.2 to 14.9; P=0.02), and lymphoma (19.2; 3.8 to 34.7; P=0.01). Evidence of longer diagnostic interval was found for patients presenting with non-NICE symptoms in 10 of 15 cancers (mean difference in days; 95% CI): bladder (62.9; 48.7 to 77.2; P<0.001), breast (115.1; 105.9 to 124.3; P<0.001), cervical (60.3; 31.6 to 89.0; P<0.001), colorectal (25.8; 19.6 to 31.9; P<0.001), gastric (24.1; 3.4 to 44.8; P=0.02), kidney (22.1; 4.5 to 39.7; P=0.01), oesophageal (67.0; 42.1 to 92.0; P<0.001), pancreatic (48.6; 28.1 to 69.1; P<0.001), testicular (36.7; 17.0 to 56.4; P<0.001), and endometrial (73.8; 60.3 to 87.3; P<0.001). Pooled analysis across all cancers demonstrated highly significant evidence of differences overall showing longer diagnostic intervals with increasing age (7.8 days; 6.4 to 9.1; P<0.001); for females (8.9 days; 5.5 to 12.2; P<0.001); and in non-NICE symptoms (27.7 days; 23.9 to 31.5; P<0.001).
Patient-doctor continuity and diagnosis of cancer: electronic medical records study in general practice. Matthew J Ridd, Diana L Santos Ferreira, Alan A Montgomery, Chris Salisbury, William Hamilton. British Journal of General Practice. 2015 May;65(634):e305-11. doi: 10.3399/bjgp15X684829.
Continuity of care may affect the diagnostic process in cancer but there is little research.
To estimate associations between patient-doctor continuity and time to diagnosis and referral of three common cancers.
Retrospective cohort study in general practices in England.
This study used data from the General Practice Research Database for patients aged ≥40 years with a diagnosis of breast, colorectal, or lung cancer. Relevant cancer symptoms or signs were identified up to 12 months before diagnosis. Patient-doctor continuity (fraction-of-care index adjusted for number of consultations) was calculated up to 24 months before diagnosis. Time ratios (TRs) were estimated using accelerated failure time regression models.
Patient-doctor continuity in the 24 months before diagnosis was associated with a slightly later diagnosis of colorectal (time ratio [TR] 1.01, 95% confidence interval [CI] =1.01 to 1.02) but not breast (TR = 1.00, 0.99 to 1.01) or lung cancer (TR = 1.00, 0.99 to 1.00). Secondary analyses suggested that for colorectal and lung cancer, continuity of doctor before the index consultation was associated with a later diagnosis but continuity after the index consultation was associated with an earlier diagnosis, with no such effects for breast cancer. For all three cancers, most of the delay to diagnosis occurred after referral.
Any effect for patient-doctor continuity appears to be small. Future studies should compare investigations, referrals, and diagnoses in patients with and without cancer who present with possible cancer symptoms or signs; and focus on 'difficult to diagnose' types of cancer.


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THE LEGACY OF 2020 FOR CYPRUS AND THE UNITED STATESchristoforos.c2020-12-07T13:06:18+02:00
VOLUME 17 ISSUE 6 December 2020
Van Coufoudakis, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Indiana University-Purdue University
THE LEGACY OF 2020 FOR CYPRUS AND THE UNITED STATES
I am writing this short essay as the unprecedented year 2020 comes to an end. The legacy of this year whether in the areas of health, the economy or on international politics will be felt for years to come. Because of space limitations, this commentary will focus on two issues: the recent US elections and the Cyprus problem.
As far as my country is concerned, the four years of the Trump administration have had a devastating effect on American society, our political system and the ties of this country with its traditional allies. Trump applied the tactics and practices of populist dictators. He was able to mobilize and legitimize the worst elements of American society, raising serious questions about the political maturity of the American public. He decimated and undermined American political institutions, democratic procedures and the credibility of our political system. Trump managed to do in four years what we accused the Russians of trying to do to our political system during the Cold War. He set back the social progress achieved in the US by appointing ultra conservative judges in vacancies in the federal courts. The damage done to American institutions and political processes would not have been possible without the complicity of the Republican Party that tolerated Trump's actions fearful of the reactions of Trump's political base. I have lived in this country on and off since 1955. I have witnessed momentous events including the Communist witch hunts of the 50's, Vietnam, the Civil Rights movement, Watergate, to just name a few. But the nation survived and came out of these crises stronger and united. Unfortunately, this is not the case today. The legacy we are leaving to the next generation is one of extremism and polarization that will not be easy to heal. Reading Ortega Y'Gasset's "Revolt of the Masses" should be a wake up call for all who still believe in democracy and human rights.
Cypriots followed closely the American electoral marathon. The relations of the Trump administration with Turkey had a serious impact on Greece and Cyprus. Trump showed his deference for Erdogan because he considered him a "strong leader". This was Trump's characterization of the cadre of dictators he supported. Trump also had economic interests in Turkey. He and his associates were involved in the affairs of corrupt Turkish banks. Despite high level visits by US officials to Greece and Cyprus and the facilities made available to the US by both countries, Trump took no steps to curb Erdogan's disregard of international law and aggressive behavior in the Eastern Mediterranean.
Even though President Elect Joe Biden during his Senate career showed understanding of the issues affecting Cyprus, his victory will need to be assessed realistically. Trump is leaving the Department of State in chaos. He has neglected and undermined US interests in the region. The pro-Turkish views of the Departments of State and Defense remain, despite Turkey's actions in Syria, the support it extended to the Islamic State, its acquisition of the S-400 missile system, and its promotion of Islamic ideology. A Biden victory should not be celebrated by the ringing of Church bells, as it happened with the Carter election. In view of these developments and the absence of an effective Greek American lobby, US policy in the region will not change. US foreign policy priorities are elsewhere. This is why Cyprus must develop its lobbying presence in Washington and cooperate with Israel and the American Jewish community. Both have a significant presence and impact in Washington. With all the domestic and foreign policy issues that will confront the Biden administration, Cyprus will not be a top policy priority. The new staff in the Department of State will return to the traditional position of supporting a new round of talks aiming for the adoption of the elusive "bi-zonal, bi-communal federation", regardless of the effects of that solution on the survival of the Republic of Cyprus.
Following the "elections" in occupied Cyprus and the rise of Mr. Tatar as Ankara's favorite "Turkish Cypriot leader," a new drive is underway for five party informal talks from the point where the Crans Montana talks deadlocked, despite Turkey's continuing violations of Cypriot sovereignty and Turkey's demand for a two state solution. For all those who shed tears over Mr. Akinci's loss, his "presidency" was not a missed opportunity for the resolution of the Cyprus problem. Despite his alleged "European" and progressive image, Akinci faithfully executed Turkey's policies. Once again, the old theories of the "lost opportunities" have appeared in Cypriot political discourse along with warnings that new talks are needed in order to avoid the partition of Cyprus. All this, despite Turkey's daily provocations and threats and Mr. Tatar's endorsement of a two state solution for Cyprus. Looking at what transpired in and around Cyprus in recent months, I want to remind readers that, had the Annan Plan been ratified in 2004, Cyprus would not have been able to articulate any of its limited diplomatic protests over Turkey's violations of Cypriot sovereignty.
In 1939 Chamberlain believed that by negotiating with revisionist dictators he could achieve "peace in our time". We all know what happened in Eastern and Central Europe in the late 30's. Greek Cypriots have a major responsibility to protect their 60 year old Republic and the hard won rights of its European citizens. Working with like minded alliances of European states, Cyprus must resist the siren song of "reunification" under the unprecedented constitutional construct of the "bi-zonal, bi-communal federation", a system created in New York, London and Ankara with the tacit acceptance of Nicosia's Presidential Palace thanks to the "constructive ambiguity" employed by foreign mediators. Turkey means when it says that the Republic of Cyprus is "defunct". Turkey wants two states on Cyprus, one directly under its control and the other controlled by Turkish Cypriot and Turkish settler vetoes. The Greek Cypriot state with its strong economy will end up supporting the Turkish Cypriot puppet state and sharing equally with it the Republic's hydrocarbon revenues.
The specter of new talks is upon us despite Turkey's unrelenting threats. The Greek Cypriot negotiating backsliding is nothing new. Turkey and the UN negotiators know that. The most serious recent concession came two years ago when the Cypriot President adopted the idea of a "loose confederation" following secret talks with the Turks in New York. Like other constitutional abstractions that have gained currency in Cypriot vocabulary, the average citizen does not understand the implications of these unprecedented constructs on the survival of the Republic of Cyprus and on the rights Cypriots enjoy as European citizens.. Time has come for such a discussion because, as Cicero said in his first Philippic, we have "Hannibal ante portas".
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Introducing the micro-modal Range
The silky feel and unique sweat-protect hallmarks of our bamboo viscose undershirts have brought ease, comfort and confidence back into many daily routines. Nevertheless, we are continually evolving our Robert Owen undershirt to ensure it stays a seamless complement to your day, every day. It is our mission to create the most natural, comfortable and unobtrusive next-to-skin layer that we can.
You may have heard of micro-modal fabrics, especially if you have a penchant for luxury underwear. Micro-modal is especially popular for its light, soft texture and durability. We believe that the invisible-feel of micro-modal is the next step towards the perfect undershirt.
Our new range of Robert Owen undershirts are made from 100% micro-modal fibres and are available in new colours and styles. Over the next few blogs we will explain why we have introduced this fabulous micro-modal fabric to Robert Owen. We will look at the technicalities of the fabric itself, as well as the history of micro-modal, the milling process, the environmental impact of viscose fabrics and where micro-modal belongs in your wardrobe.
Viscose: The Next Generation
Micro-modal is a type of viscose fabric usually made from beech tree pulp. Since viscose was first manufactured in 1951 the production process and resultant fabrics been improved by three key generational changes. The differences between viscose fabrics such as modal, lyocell are subtle; it all comes down to the manufacturing process and the structure of the filament.
A Quick Re-cap: what is viscose?
Viscose is a plant-based semi-synthetic textile made from regenerated cellulose fibres. Viscose is produced by pulping wood, extracting the cellulose compounds and dissolving these compounds in a solvent. This creates a thick viscose liquid (hence the name) which is then forced through small holes into a solution which removes the solvent and leaves behind long strands of pure "regenerated" cellulose. These resultant filament threads are long and smooth (similar to silk) and are spun into a yarn.
Don't let the name fool you: viscose is called a semi-synthetic fabric because although it is made from naturally occurring cellulose compounds (it does not contain any petroleum-based polymers) the cellulose filaments are shaped through a synthetic process and do not occur naturally in the same way that, for example, wool fibres occur naturally in sheep.
Because viscose fibres are synthetically produced, we have quite precise control over the formation of the filaments, resulting in a textile that is more uniform than most naturally occurring fibres. Viscose also has different properties, including varying absorbent and wicking abilities, and is delightfully free from the drawbacks that beset petroleum polymer-based fabrics (like polyester, or Nylon), such as the tendencies to zap you with static shocks and encourage the growth of smelly bacteria.
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Cotton is about 90% cellulose, whereas viscose is 100% cellulose
Silk has such a smooth texture because of its long, continuous filament
Wool is comprised of short staple fibres which gives a complex texture
First Generation Viscose
First generation viscose products are alternatively known as viscose, or rayon (for those across the pond). The original Robert Owen bamboo viscose undershirt is made from cellulose extracted from bamboo. We like bamboo as a source for it's potential to grow with less need for water or pesticides than say cotton. Moreover, we preferred the feel of bamboo viscose on the skin.
Second Generation Viscose
Micro-modal is a second generation viscose. It is produced in nearly the same way as bamboo viscose, except that the cellulose is most often sourced from beech tree pulp, and the filaments are put under tension as they are spun to make the molecular alignment more uniform. The result is an even stronger filament which makes for an even lighter, more sleek fabric than viscose. Micro-modal also has higher strength, better colour fastness and the ability to stand up to washing and tumble drying without losing its shape. We believe micro-modal is an excellent fabric for an undershirt because of it's smooth and lightweight feel.
Third Generation Viscose
The invention of lyocell, a third generation viscose, introduced another important development in the production process. Originally, the solvent used to extract the cellulose from the wood was sodium hydroxide (caustic soda). Third generation production techniques replace this chemical with a non-toxic organic compound called N-Methylmorpholine N-oxide (NMMO for short). This organic solvent is easier to filter and re-use in a closed loop production cycle, which equates to far less waste and is more eco-friendly.
Robert Owen Micro-modal Undershirts
Our micro-modal undershirts are exceptionally smooth and light, and with their invisible look and feel they are perfect for slipping under fitted shirts and tees. Even though it's lightweight Micro-modal maintains good absorbing characteristics; thanks to its uniform molecular alignment it can absorb 50% more water, per unit volume, than cotton. These undershirts will help prevent sweat marks from ruining your pristine outer layer.
With an exceptionally light and soft feel, our micro-modal undershirts may be just the ticket to complete your day. As your go-to undershirt, it will regulate your body temperature, let your body breathe, and help trap sweat to preserve your smart clothes. Moreover, micro-modal is also far more easy-care than cotton and other viscose fabrics. Unlike cotton, micro-modal is shrink resistant and will keep its shape and finish after both washing and tumble drying. It also dyes well, so we've launched a brand new range of colours from chocolate brown to heather grey for you to choose from. And, for the final maraschino cherry-on-top, micro-modal may even have natural anti-bacterial properties. It certainly helps keep the pong at bay compared to say synthetics like polyester and Nylon!
Over and above all these perks, we just love wearing micro-modal for its gentle, natural feel against the skin. Your skin is your first (and best) coat and shield. It is waterproof, insulating, antibacterial. Our undershirts seek to complement these crucial attributes as closely as possible, and with our new range of colours and styles, including long-sleeves for these long winters, we believe you can find a Robert Owen micro-modal undershirt which fits you perfectly.


What you need to know heading into Round 1.
It's opening night of the 2017 Wrangler National Finals Rodeo, and there's no place any roper or roping fan would rather be than Las Vegas. Before it starts, and we see how the world championship race plays out this year, let's all stop and salute the best headers and heelers in all the land. The road to the NFR is a long, grueling one, and it's packed with plenty of potholes along the way that'll test a guy's try, patience and persistence. Rodeoing for a living is not for the faint of heart. Congratulations to the top 15 headers and heelers at this year's NFR, who persevered in the year-long battle!!
Kaleb Driggers and reigning World Champion All-Around Cowboy Junior Nogueira are the leaders of the team roping pack with $133,977 and $134,707 a man, respectively. But Erich Rogers and Cory Petska are riding in hot in their rearview mirrors with $133,712 a man. With $26,231 rounds and the $67,269 average, that's chump change. And all four are hungry for their first world team roping title after coming oh so close so many times.
Texan Kory Koontz is the ultimate warrior in this year's field with 21 NFR back numbers. There are four Finals first-timers here this year, including KK's header, Florida's Dustin Equsquiza, South Dakota's Junior Dees, who'll spin for fellow Finals freshman Tyler McKnight from Texas, and Oklahoma's Joseph Harrison, who'll heel for Charly Crawford.
Oregon's Garrett Rogers and Washington's Jake Minor will be the first team to ride in the box tonight, and the 15 teams' strategies are all over the map. Some are planning to go-for-broke 10 times, and others can't stop thinking about the pot of gold that comes with the average and annually upends the final world standings.


One of the most storied wrestling programs in the nation, Nebraska has produced 108 All-Americans in over 100 years of wrestling in Lincoln. The Huskers have also earned an impressive 86 honors since 1990, thanks in part to Bryan Snyder and James Green, the only two wrestlers in Husker history to capture All-America honors on four occasions.
Fourteen Huskers have earned All-American honors three times while 13 NU grapplers are two-time honorees. Five times a Husker has claimed the Manuel Gorrarian Award at the NCAA Championships, which is awarded to the wrestler who records the most pins in the least amount of time at the event. Below are Nebraska's 108 All-American awards won, including the year and weight the wrestler claimed the honor.
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Who is the richest Kannada actor?
Top 10 Richest Kannada Actors 2022
Ganesh: Net Worth 12 Crore Estimated.
Shiva Rajkumar: Net Worth 15 Crore Estimated.
Upendra: Net Worth 35 Crore Estimated.
Yash: Net Worth 40 Crore Estimated.
Darshan: Net Worth 40 Crore Estimated.
Puneeth Rajkumar: Net Worth Over 50 Crore.
Sudeep: Net Worth 100 Crore Estimated.
Who is Kannada No 1 hero?
1. Yash. Shot to fame with the 2008 film, Rocky, Yash did the lead role in films like Googly and impressed the Kannada audience with his acting. With the 2018 released pan-India film, KGF Chapter 1, Yash has got Nationwide popularity.
Who takes highest salary in Kannada film industry?
Top 10 Most Highest Paid Actors in Kannada
Sudeep. Fondly known as Kichcha Sudeep, Sudeep is a popular actor, screenwriter, director as well as producer.
Puneeth Rajkumar. Being the younger son of legendary actor Rajkumar, Puneeth is active in movies since 2002.
Darshan.
Shiva Rajkumar.
Upendra.
Yash.
Rakshith Shetty.
Ganesh.
What is the salary of Yash for one movie?
Yash's monthly income is 55 Lakh+. The main source of his earnings comes from the films which he earned a lot. And his films are generating new records every year. Yash per movie fee is 4 to 5 Crore rupees.
What is the salary of actor Vijay?
Vijay Net Worth
Joseph Vijay Chandrasekhar
Net Worth In Indian Rupees Rs. 410 Crore
Profession Indian Actor
Monthly Income And Salary 3 Lakhs +
yearly Income 36 Crore +
Who is No 1 hero in Sandalwood 2021?
1. Yash. Rocking Star Yash is believed to be the highest paid actor in the Kannada cinema industry.
Who is the No 1 heroine in Kannada industry?
1) Rashmika Mandanna In a short span of time, the actress made it to the Tollywood ₹100 crore club. She is today one of the most popular and highest-paid actresses in Kannada and Telugu cinema industry.
What is the salary of Dhruva Sarja?
Dhruva Sarja Rs. 6 crores remuneration – Kannada News – IndiaGlitz.com.
What is KGF salary?
Yash Net Worth (KGF) 2022: Income, Earnings, Assets, Career
Salary: 6 Crore +
Monthly Income: 50 Lakhs +
Date of Birth: January 8, 1986
What is the salary of Ajith?
Ajith Net Worth 2022 – Car, Salary, Income, Assets, Career
Salary: 24 Crore +
Monthly Income: 2 Crore +
Date of Birth: May 1, 1971
Who is the highest paid Kannada actor right now?
Yash who is one of the highest paid Kannada actors right now made his debut in the year 2004 and now charge Rs 2.5 Crore per film. Before joining films he has been a regular actor in the daily soap operas.
What is the Kannada film industry?
After Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu, Kannada is India's fourth-largest film industry. Bangalore is the home and headquarters of the Kannada film industry. Actors in the Kannada film business have a wide range of acting techniques, and audiences enjoy films that blend romance and action.
What is the salary of Kannada actor Upendra?
Upendra who is better known as an actor, producer, director, lyricist and screenwriter charges nearly Rs 3.5 per film, who stands out to be one of the 10 highest paid Kannada actors right now. His debut movie was Upendra.
How much is the salary of Amrutha in Kannada per day?
Approximately "Amrutha" from "Amruthavarshini" will take 5–6k per day! Who is the highest paid actress in Kannada? Originally Answered: Who is the highest paid actor in Kannada film industry?


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Passive Voice: It's So Passé
Filed in Ask the Editor, Writing Tips by Krystina Murray on September 29, 2015 • 1 Comment
Passive voice has a time and place in writing, as it serves to be a stylistic additive in many books and papers. In some cases, people prefer passive voice in creative pieces, such as poetry and prose; however, writing in passive voice too often in your fiction and non-fiction pieces can cloud your writing. The "passive voice" can best be described as writing that quietly emphasizes the subject in the sentence, rather than the verb. It also indirectly guides the reader to a course of action or situation without a direct voice, which can leave readers scratching their heads. It dampens the tone in your writing, and can even show inconsistency where dynamic, active, confident tones could be.
Here's an example: "I was called an offensive name by someone last night."
Let's take a look at what works and what doesn't. What works here is there is a completed sentence with an identifiable conflict or issue. What doesn't work here is the lack of specific, concrete and direct tones, which readers would want more of. The reader will be asking, "who did this?" Details are lacking, and the example doesn't emphasize action.
A clearer, more direct way to say this would be: "Sal called me an offensive name yesterday." Here, the sentence reveals crucial detail.
Keep this in mind when you write, and create a narrative voice that sounds more direct, clear and articulate!
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Krystina Murray is a Staff Editor at Xulon Press with over six years of editing experience. When she isn't helping writers improve their manuscripts, she devotes her time to crafting poetry and short stories, maintains an exciting food blog and completes copy writing advertisements for small businesses.
Belinda says:
Hi Krystina! This is a great article! I almost felt bad not knowing what "Passive Voice" really was. Thank you for explaining that. I now know how to dodge those type of pitfalls. It is good to have an opportunity to get to know the people working behind the scenes in the book publishing process. If it is not too much trouble, I would like to speak with you about what you do in the copywriting market. Thank you for sharing your expertise!
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