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Global solvents industry seeks greener alternatives
Study finds environmental, regulatory pressures driving change
Driven by increasing environmental and regulatory pressures and concerns over toxicity to humans, the global solvents market continues to undergo significant changes as demand for "greener" solvents has increased in developed countries during the last 15 years, while demand for traditional solvents (outside of China) continues to decline, according to a new IHS Chemical global market research report.
The 427-page report, the IHS Chemical Global Solvents Report: Opportunities for Greener Solvents, provides an in-depth analysis of the global solvents market, including supply and demand, suppliers and market outlook for solvents, but also regulatory insights and a comprehensive comparison of the different solvent types relative to effectiveness, toxicity and environmental impact.
Paintings, coatings and...
Nearly half of all solvents used globally are for paints and coatings, but other uses include adhesives, inks, pharmaceuticals, chemical processing, metal and dry cleaning solutions and agriculture.
According to the report, global consumption of solvents is significant, with more than 28 million metric tons (MMT) consumed in 2012. China accounted for more than 9 MMT of that global demand, which was nearly double the 5 MMT in solvent consumption by North America. Europe consumed nearly 6 MMT of solvents last year, followed by other Asian countries (as a group) at 4 MMT, while Japan consumed just 2 MMT of solvents.
Demand in China to rise
Demand for solvents in China is expected to increase approximately 5 percent to 6 percent per year during the next few years, said IHS, but solvent demand is expected to remain flat or decrease in the U.S. and E.U. due to more environmental regulations; the penetration of technologies that consume little, if any solvent; and greater solvent recovery and recycling. Another factor impacting demand is the off-shoring of industrial processes to China that consume large amounts of solvent, such as the coating of wood furniture and the assembly of shoes using solvent-borne adhesives.
"The overall solvents market is diminishing in industrialized countries, mainly as a result of regulatory pressures to reduce emissions that cause lower-atmospheric smog and, in some cases, pose health threats," said Eric Linak, specialty chemicals analyst at IHS Chemical and lead author of the study. "Many large industrial users face switching from a hazardous compound to a more environmentally benign solvent that has a higher cost, or that compromises product quality. The perfect solvent is not available, so manufacturers must make a tradeoff between efficiency, cost and environmental impact."
Solvents and ozone effects
Solvents are one of the most comprehensively regulated classes of chemicals, and tend to be regulated collectively as volatile organic compounds (VOCs), which contribute to lower-level ozone formation.
Both the U.S. and Europe have imposed stricter restrictions on solvents during the past 20 years, particularly with European passage of the Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals (REACH) legislation in 2007, which requires toxicity evaluations on thousands of substances. To comply with solvent-emission regulation, manufacturers have the option to install engineering controls to limit emissions. In the dry cleaning industry, for example, emissions of perchloroethylene have been severely curtailed as users have installed specially designed cleaning and recycling equipment to decrease emissions by as much as 90 percent (see related chart).
Consumption in paints and coatings accounts for the largest share of the global solvent market at 40 percent of solvent use, according to the IHS report. Despite the trend during the last 30 years toward technologies that contain less solvent (e.g. powder coatings, high-solids and waterborne coatings), there is still significant use of solvents — nearly half of all coatings used are still solvent-based.
"Green chemistry" movement
Said Linak, "This percentage will likely continue to decrease as more restrictive coatings regulations are scheduled to come into effect in the U.S. and the European Union during the next five years." There is growing use, the report noted, of "VOC-exempt" solvents in the U.S. that have negligible contribution to lower atmospheric pollution.
Solvents that are less hazardous to humans and to the environment are part of the "green chemistry" movement, including supercritical CO2 which can be used for extraction. Other promising green solvents currently being researched, but in limited use today, are ionic liquids, which have essentially no vapor pressure, so there is no dissipation to the environment.
Linak said that several bio-based materials have been available for 10 to 15 years, and have enjoyed some commercial success in niche markets. "The opportunity to develop and market solvents with lower ecological and toxicological profiles is excellent, especially with the strong global green movement, and increasing regulatory oversight of the solvents industry."
About IHS (www.ihs.com)
IHS (NYSE: IHS) is the leading source of information, insight and analytics in critical areas that shape today's business landscape. Businesses and governments in more than 165 countries around the globe rely on the comprehensive content, expert independent analysis and flexible delivery methods of IHS to make high-impact decisions and develop strategies with speed and confidence. IHS has been in business since 1959 and became a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange in 2005. Headquartered in Englewood, Colorado, USA, IHS is committed to sustainable, profitable growth and employs approximately 8,000 people in 31 countries around the world.
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This is a simple C++ interpreter written in JavaScript.

Try it out [on github.io](https://felixhao28.github.io/JSCPP/)!

[![Travis Build Status][build-badge]][build]

## Purpose of the project

As far as I know, every public online C++ excuting environment requires backend servers to compile and run the produced executable. A portable and lightweight interpreter that can be run in browsers can be a fine substitute for those who do not intend to pay for such services.

I also want to make a strict interpreter. The reason being C++ has too many undefined and platform-dependent behaviors and popular C++ compilers tend to be an "over-caring mother" who tries to ignore or even justify the undocumented usages. The abuse of them should be avoided as much as possible IMO. For example, I do not want my students to take it as guaranteed that `sizeof int` produces `4`, because on Arduino Uno, an `int` is a 2-byte value.

Currently, it is mainly for educational uses for a MOOC course I am running (and fun).

## Prerequisites

* NodeJS with -harmony flag or
* A modern browser that [supports generators](https://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6/#generators) (Firefox, Chrome)

## How to use

Installation

```
npm install JSCPP
```

or (to use lastest cutting-edge version or to contribute)

```
git clone https://github.com/felixhao28/JSCPP.git
cd JSCPP
npm install .
```

### With NodeJS

```js
var JSCPP = require("JSCPP");
var code =    "#include <iostream>"    + "\n"
            + "using namespace std;"   + "\n"
            + "int main() {"           + "\n"
            + "    int a;"             + "\n"
            + "    cin >> a;"          + "\n"
            + "    cout << a << endl;" + "\n"
            + "    return 0;"          + "\n"
            + "}"                      + "\n"
;
var input = "4321";
var exitcode = JSCPP.run(code, input);
console.info("program exited with code " + exitcode);
```

See _demo/example.coffee_ for example.

Use __debugger__

As of 2.0.0, there is a simple but functional real debugger available.

A list of debugger API:

- methods
	+ debugger.next(): one step further
	+ debugger.continue(): continue until breakpoint
	+ debugger.nextNode(): the AST node to be executed
		* sLine
		* sColumn
		* sOffset
		* eLine
		* eColumn
		* eOffset
	+ debugger.nextLine()
	+ debugger.type(typeName)
	+ debugger.variable()
	+ debugger.variable(variableName)
- properties
	+ src: preprocessed source
	+ prevNode: previous AST node
	+ done
	+ conditions
	+ stopConditions
	+ rt: the internal runtime instance
	+ gen: the internal generator

```js
var JSCPP = require("JSCPP")
var mydebugger = JSCPP.run(code, input);
// continue to the next interpreting operation
var done = mydebugger.next();
// if you have an active breakpoint condition, you can just continue
var done = mydebugger.continue();
// by default, debugger pauses at every new line, but you can change it
mydebugger.stopConditions = {
    isStatement: true
    positionChanged: true
    lineChanged: false
};
// so that debugger only stops at a statement of a new position
// or you can add your own condition, i.e. stops at line 10
mydebugger.conditions["line10"] = function (prevNode, nextNode) {
	if (nextNode.sLine=== 10)
		// disable itself so that it only triggers once on line 10
		mydebugger.stopConditions["line10"] = false
		return true;
	else
		return false;
};
// then enable it
mydebugger.stopConditions["line10"] = true
// we need to explicitly use "false" because exit code can be 0
if (done !== false) {
	console.log("program exited with code " + done);
}
// the AST node to be executed next
var s = mydebugger.nextNode();
// sometimes a breakpoint can be set without a statement to be executed next,
// i.e. entering a function call.
while ((s = mydebugger.nextNode()) == null) {
	mydebugger.next();
}
// the content of the statement to be executed next
var nextLine = mydebugger.nextLine();
// it is essentially same as
nextLine = mydebugger.src.slice(s.sOffset, s.eOffset).trim()

console.log("from " + s.sLine + ":" + s.sColumn + "(" + s.sOffset + ")");
console.log("to " + s.eLine + ":" + s.eColumn + "(" + s.eOffset + ")");
console.log("==> " + nextLine);
// examine the internal registry for a type
mydebugger.type("int");
// examine the value of variable "a"
mydebugger.variable("a");
// or list all local variables
mydebugger.variable();
```

A full interactive example is available in *demo/debug.coffee*. Use `node -harmony demo/debug A+B -debug` to debug "A+B" test.

### With a modern browser

There should be a newest version of _JSCPP.js_ in _dist_ ready for you. If not, use `grunt build` to generate one.

Then you can add it to your html. The exported global name for this package is "JSCPP".

```html
<script src="JSCPP.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
	function run(code, input){
		var config = {
			stdio: {
				write: function(s) {
					output.value += s;
				}
			}
		}
		return JSCPP.run(code, input, config);
	}
</script>
```

If you do not provide a customized `write` method for `stdio` configuration, console output will not be correctly shown. See _index.html_ in **gh_pages** branch for an example.

### Run tests

```
grunt test
```

## Q&A

### Which features are implemented?

* (Most) operators
* Primitive types
* Variables
* Arrays
    - ~~Multidimensional array with initializers.~~
* Pointers
* If...else control flow
* Switch...case control flow
    - ~~Declarations inside switch block.~~
* For loop
* While loop
* Do...while loop
* Functions
* Variable scopes
* Preprocessor directives
	- Macro
	- Include

### Which notable features are not implemented yet?

* Goto statements
* Object-oriented features
* Namespaces
* Multiple files support

### How is the performance?

If you want to run C++ programs effciently, compile your C++ code to [LLVM-bitcode](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LLVM) and then use [Emscripten](https://github.com/kripken/emscripten).

### Which libraries are supported?

See current progress in [_includes_](https://github.com/felixhao28/JSCPP/blob/master/includes) folder.

* iostream (only cin and cout and endl)
* cmath
* cctype
* cstring
* cstdio (partial)
* cstdlib (partial)

### Bug report? Feedback?

Post it on [Issues](https://github.com/felixhao28/JSCPP/issues).

## Changelog

* v1.0.0 (2015.3.31)
	- Formal release of this project.
* v1.0.1 (3.31)
	- This release is a mistake.
* v1.0.2 (3.31)
	- New examples.
	- Update README.
	- Renamed runtime and interpreter to start with upper case.
	- (dev-side) Grunt.
* v1.0.3 (4.1)
	- (dev-side) Fix dev-dependency on coffee-script.
	- (dev-side) Grunt watches.
	- (dev-side) Port to coffeescript
	- (dev-side) Refactoring
	- (dev-side) Reworked testing, now all tests are defined in `test.json`
	- Fixed a bug related to a.push(b).concat(c) in syntax parser (#1).
	- Added new tests
* v1.1.0 (4.2)
	- Fixed array initialization with 0 issue
	- Added support for reading string with cin
	- Member function should not be registered globally
	- Added new tests
	- Basic debugging support
* v1.1.1 (4.3)
	- Split debugger from example
	- (dev-side) Grunt only watches newer
	- Fix debug prev command
* v2.0.0 (4.11)
	- New
		+ **Real debugger!**
	- Change
		+ API: Now `JSCPP.run` is all you need
		+ Runtime: The project uses es6, please use V8 with harmony flag
		+ Deprecated: Removed old legacy profiling-replay debugging
		+ Misc: Many other small changes
	- Dev
		+ Major refactoring on interpreter using es6
* v2.0.1 (6.24)
	- Fix
		+ Debugger variable scope issue
		+ Readme example
		+ An issue on Chrome Canary
		+ Integer type promotion issue
		+ Many small fixes

[build-badge]: https://travis-ci.org/felixhao28/JSCPP.svg
[build]: https://travis-ci.org/felixhao28/JSCPP

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I don't know about you guys but this has felt like a long week. I must have thought it was Thursday at least half a dozen times on Wednesday. So, I'm thrilled that Friday is finally here, and I'm linking up for my first Five For Friday!
This was Homecoming week for us, and the best thing about that is wearing jeans every day! We will look for any excuse to pull out the blue jeans. Tuesday was crazy sock day and here I am with a few of my teaching buddies. Okay, maybe the socks aren't that crazy, but it's being able to wear jeans that matters most!
I started something new this year called Marshmallow Treats for Marshmallow Feet. I teach in a tri-level building, so wherever you go, you take stairs. Unfortunately for the classrooms nearest to those stairs, they are very noisy, especially with 30 sets of ten year old feet stampeding down them like a herd of elephants. One of my colleagues started telling her kids to walk on the stairs with "marshmallow feet", so I took that idea and ran with it! Whenever we go up or down the stairs, I take a handful of little blue slips of paper with me. I watch for students who are walking with "marshmallow feet", and when I find one, I hand him/her a slip of paper. They put their name on it, and put it in the bucket.
I attached a little baggie to the back to keep the little slips of paper in. On Fridays, I draw out two names to get a marshmallow treat! You should see (you can't hear!) my kids walk on the stairs now. They tiptoe!
This picture doesn't really show anything, it just made me laugh to take it! My kids are used to me taking random pictures by now, but I bet some of them were thinking, "What the heck is she taking a picture of this for?".
Another motivational bucket I use with my students is the Reading Area Bucket.
The idea behind this one is to get my students to choose to read whenever they finish other work. When I see students choosing to read, I give them a little purple slip of paper, which they drop in the bucket during a transition time later.
On Friday, I draw out six names from the bucket. Those lucky students get to sit in the reading area that day during reading workshop AND for all of the next week whenever they are finished with their work. I just love to see my reading area filled with readers!
We played Swat the Vocab in Social Studies to review for the vocabulary quiz. I put each word on a card (with a picture of a fly) and put them all over the board. I divide the class into three groups, have one person from each group come up to the front, and give them a flyswatter. Then I read a definition aloud. The first person to SWAT! the right word earns a point for his/her team. The kids love to play it!
Be sure to link up with Doodle Bugs for Five For Friday!
Love the Marshmallow Feet idea!! Thanks for sharing!
Agreed, this week has definitely felt like a long one. Swat the vocab looks like such a brilliant game to play! Such fun!
I just heard a colleague saying to his students to use their marshmallow feet last month. I've been using the saying, but I never thought of actually giving out some marshmallows. I'm excited now! We also have a 3 level building that was built in the 1890s. Those wood stairs are loud!
Your reading area is great - I am your newest follower.
Love the marshmallow feet idea and the SWAT game!
I love "marshmallow feet." I'm so doing this. I've told my students a zillion times to "quit shuffling, Pick up your FEET!"
Lots of awesomeness going on in this post! Thanks for sharing!
I love LOVE LOVE! your idea for marshmallow feet! We are on the second floor of our building and have the same problem.
I'm buying some fly swatters this weekend. Thanks! Great idea.


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Minister Humphreys meets with Australian Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment Mr Steven Ciobo
Ms Heather Humphreys`, T.D., Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation today, held bilateral discussions on a range of trade and investment issues with the Australian Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment Mr Steven Ciobo MP. Their discussion focused on bilateral and multilateral trade issues, including negotiations for an EU-Australia Free Trade Agreement which were recently launched by EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom with her Australian counterpart, as well as Brexit. The Minister also joined Minister Ciobo for his engagements with Combilift at their new global headquarters and manufacturing facility in Monaghan.
Minister Humphreys stressed that: "Ireland values our strong relationship with Australia, as we are both open and dynamic economies which rely on international trade and investment for success. I am pleased that the EU's negotiations with Australia have begun, with the opening round taking place earlier this month, and hope that a mutually beneficial and comprehensive Free Trade Agreement can be agreed quickly. Such an Agreement will complement the suite of existing Free Trade Agreements the EU has in place, including the recently agreed EU-Japan Economic Partnership as well as Agreements with Singapore and Mexico."
The EU's trade agreements are very important for Ireland by opening new markets for Irish firm's goods and services and increasing export and investment opportunities. Minister Humphreys added: "Building new market opportunities is a vital part of Ireland's strategy for further trade diversification and the development of strong trading relationships across the globe, which has come into sharper focus in light of the potential impacts of Brexit". The Minister added: "The EU's suite of trade agreements, which will hopefully be added to by ones with Australia and New Zealand, in due course, offer significant trade and investment opportunities for businesses in Ireland through increased market access, reduced tariffs and administrative simplification for exporters".
Both Ministers also took the opportunity to exchange views on current global trade challenges including trade relations with the US and China as well as the issue of WTO reform.
In addition, Minister Humphreys highlighted that in the Brexit negotiations, the Irish border is not just about trade, but about people's daily lives and about the peace on the island of Ireland that must be protected in all of its aspects.
The Ministers met with Martin McVicar, Managing Director of Combilift on a tour of the company's new global headquarters and manufacturing facility. "From their base in Monaghan, Combilift has achieved global recognition, and represents the best of Irish engineering excellence. The Irish engineering sector has undergone significant transformation in the past decade, moving from a domestically focused sector to an export focused sector with companies such as Combilift leading the way", noted the Minister, adding: "I hope today's meeting opens further opportunities for Combilift, and other Irish companies, to grow and deepen trade and investment relationships with Australia".
The Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation (DBEI) plays a key role in implementing the Government's policies of stimulating the productive capacity of the economy and creating an environment which supports job creation and maintenance. The Department also has a remit to promote fair competition in the marketplace, protect consumers and safeguard workers.
If you would like more information about this topic, please call DBEI Press Office at (01) 6312200, or email press.office@dbei.gov.ie.

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New adjunct professor comes full circle at SMSU
Photo by Bill Oxford on Unsplash
Dede Williams, Staff Writer
Walk into Southwest Minnesota State University's (SMSU) Charter Hall 206 on Monday evenings and you will find a packed classroom being taught Legal Environment and Contract Law by an unassuming professor. Adjunct professor Keith Helgeson has begun his first semester back at Southwest Minnesota State University; however, he is teaching this time. Helgeson is an alumnus of SMSU and a native of southwest Minnesota. By day, he is Chief Prosecuting Attorney in the neighboring county of Yellow Medicine (YMC).
For 27 years he has been an integral part of the County Attorney's office of Granite Falls, Minnesota. He began as the Assistant County Attorney in 1993 and transferred to the County Attorney position in 2006. His current position has broadened the scope of his job description, but he still prosecutes crimes that occur against the county and its citizens.
The crimes he prosecutes include those perpetrated by juveniles. Over the years he has become witness to incidents of high recidivism rates and has found himself having to prosecute 2nd and even 3rd generations of families. While carrying on the daily business of running the County Office, his conscience began to and continued to beg the question, "How can you break this cycle?"
Enter Amanda Sieling, the Assistant Attorney in the office at the time. Many on the SMSU campus know Sieling as Assistant Professor Sieling in the Justice Administration Department. Helgeson teamed up with her to implement restorative justice practices as part of their criminal justice system in YMC. I reached out to Sieling for some insight about the restorative justice model and she shared this: "In order to have real justice, we need to think of all the people affected [by crime]; the victim, community, and the offender. We need to wrap the offender into the community instead of shunning them out, or just locking them up. Seventy percent or so recidivate within three years of their release. That's why we need to come at crime in a different way. We need to treat the whole community. Restorative justice is one of the best ways I know to do that."
An important piece of the restorative justice concept that Helgeson and Sieling have implemented in YMC is called "circle." The central piece is the coming together of volunteers of the community to meet with offenders in the community in just that, a circle. They sit and share with each other in a "talking circle." The one whose turn it is to speak is given a "talking piece" and they share what they need to— "from the heart." Offenders and interested members of the community who want to help restore balance and healing in their communities by helping each other find their ways, together. There has been an outpouring in their community of volunteers to help adolescents in the criminal justice system and adults alike.
Another circle program derived from the restorative justice ideals helps parents who have found themselves in the court systems because they have a Child in Need of Protection or Services, or CHIPS case. Parents can attend circle to share their issues and volunteers can offer assistance to help create a network of support as the parents work on themselves.
Another extremely important option is available to victims of crime. If the victim so chooses, they can meet with their offender on their terms and create a dialogue that can be of a healing nature for them. It can be beneficial for the offender to see and hear the full impact of the consequences of their actions. This will hopefully modify their thought processes and therefore future behaviors.
While Helgeson cannot volunteer himself because of the "conflict of interest", he did inform me that what they've implemented in their county has now spread throughout the state of Minnesota, including Redwood and Lyon county. Anyone in the community can volunteer. Examples of volunteers in the past have been teachers, parents in the community, and retired law enforcement officers.
When Helgeson graduated from Hamline University in St. Paul MN with a law degree, he wanted to practice corporate law until a serendipitous clerking position for Judge Christopherson in Montevideo inspired him to go into public law, "for a couple of years." Twenty-seven years later, he is still invested in his work in the Office of County Attorney.
Helgeson has now found himself back in the classrooms of SMSU. He says he enjoys it, but "it's hard to witness all that students have to juggle these days in academia. In addition to all the time needed to attend class and the time needed to study, they also need to have close to a full-time job to make ends meet. It wasn't like that when I was in college."
He also enjoys "watching the light bulbs light up. There is so much legal language that can be boring and hard to get through. But when they see that it can apply to their daily lives, they engage and that's exciting."
What's next for Helgeson? He would like to continue to teach Business Law and, if the opportunity arises, perhaps other classes. Helgeson has come full circle, back to where he had left his roots to explore what the world had to offer and has brought it home to reinvest.
You must wonder, what if by chance he had walked a different path? What if he hadn't crossed paths with Amanda Sieling? A great mind compelled and working in tandem with another to choose the path not yet traveled by implementing restorative justice into their criminal justice system. That, it would appear, is how you break the cycle. It can be a reassuring message that we have innovating minds like those of Helgeson and Sieling here on campus, imparting knowledge and experience to students who are just as eager to innovate.
For information on becoming a volunteer in Circle Programs here in Lyon County
Contact Megan Boerboom
Circle Coordinator
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Darwin Dyce on April 23rd, 2020 7:28 am
Thanks for an article that brings light to a community approach using restorative justice. Drawing a bigger circle that values everyone and acknowledges the complexity of life is a model we all benefit from.
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USA v Jamaica - Full Match Report
Photo courtesy of Gene Thorpe Photography
The USARL Hawks, USA's Rugby League (USARL) national all-star team, routed the Jamaica Reggae Warriors with a decisive 54-4 win Saturday in Philadelphia, PA, USA. This was the second of the three-game Rugby League Americas Championship Series.
Saturday's (23 July) contest followed the Canada Wolverines 38-2 pulverizing the Reggae Warriors from game one, played in Pennsylvania on 16 July. The series will wrap up on 24 September, when the Hawks take on the Wolverines in Toronto, ON, Canada.
USA shuts out Jamaica in the first half
The USARL Hawks started the scoring early in the game, Taylor Alley scoring a try in the first ten minutes of the contest. Mike Timpano missed the conversion, leaving the score at USA 4 – Jamaica 0. Just past the ten minute mark Timpano makes up for missing the conversion by scoring a try of his own. Though he missed the conversion attempt, the Hawks nonetheless extended their advantage over the Reggae Warriors to eight points.
At the midway point of the first half, Junior Vaivai scored a try, and successfully kicked the conversion, giving the USARL Hawks a 14-0 lead over the Jamaica Reggae Warriors. With eight minutes left in the first half, Taylor Alley scored his second try. With Mike Timpano's successful conversion kick, the USA took a 20-0 lead over Jamaica. The Hawks would take this lead with them into halftime, keeping the Reggae Warriors out of the try zone during the first 40 minutes of the game.
Hawks haul in win with second half dominance
Just a few minutes into the second half, the USARL Hawks committed a penalty, allowing the Jamaica Reggae Warriors the option to kick for points or for field position. Jamaica opted to try for the two points, but missed the kick, leaving the score at USA 20, Jamaica 0. The Hawks scored an unconverted try eight minutes into the second half to extend their advantage to 24. The USA soon responded with yet another try from Gabe Farley. Following the successful conversion kick by Mike Timpano, the Hawks built their lead over the Jamaica Reggae Warriors to 30-0.
USARL Hawks Captain Nick Newlin (Atlanta Rhinos) scored his first try of the game before the midpoint of the second half. After the conversion kick by Mike Timpano, the USA took a 36-0 lead over Jamaica. However, the Reggae Warriors' Ronaldo Wade finally scored an unconverted try for Jamaica with 20 minutes left in the game. This put the Reggae Warriors' first (and only) points on the board, ever so slightly closing the Hawks advantage to 36-4.
After Jamaica's try, the Hawks dominated the rest of the matchup. The USA's Timpano scored a try and a conversion with 13 minutes left in the game to bring the score to 42-4. Barthlemey Longchamp (Jacksonville Axemen) punched in another try with seven minutes left. After yet another successful conversion kick off the foot of Timpano, the Hawks led the Reggae Warriors 48-4. With just two minutes left in the game, the Hawks struck once more, with CJ Cortalano scoring the contest's final try. After Timpano's successful conversion kick, the Hawks took a 54-4 lead, which was also the final score of the game.
Part three of the three game series
The last game in the three game Rugby League Americas Championship Series, the Canada Wolverines vs. the USARL Hawks, will take place on 24 September in Toronto, ON Canada. With large losses to both the Wolverines and the Hawks, Jamaica now heads home with only six points in the tournament. The winner of the Canada vs. USA matchup will clinch the 2016 Rugby League Americas Championship.
To learn more about the USARL Hawks and their drive for the 2017 Rugby League World Cup (RLWC), scheduled next October and November in cities across Australia and New Zealand, please visit the Hawks website and the 2017 RLWC website. For more information about the USA Rugby League (USARL), please visit the USARL website and Facebook page.
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Tennis player Greg Rusedski has tested positive for the banned anabolic steroid nandrolone. Reading these reports brought back some pretty ill feelings I have towards this athlete. There are few I dislike as much as I dislike Rusedski.
Rusedski was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec. He's as Canadian as I, and played professional tennis as a supposedly proud Canadian. In 1995 he applied to change the country he played for to Britain and based this on the fact his mother had lived in England until the age of four. He simply decided he didn't want to play for the country in which he lived and trained his entire life and opted to be regarded as British instead. His motives, no doubt, were monetary. Seeing him ham it up at Wimbledon sporting a Union Jack bandana was rather hard to digest. It was a cheesy move and I've detested him ever since.
What made the switch an even more bitter pill to swallow is the fact Canada has had such a difficult time producing a quality male tennis player. Rusedski was showing such promise in 1995 and there was a sense that we'd finally have a homegrown rooting interest on the ATP. Instead, he became a phony Brit and an ungrateful Canadian. Seeing his name attached to this controversy pleases me. Seeing he's now ranked 119th in the world pleases me even more.


Who: Peninsula Connie Mack (PCM) is a member of the American Amateur Baseball Congress (AABC) and Northern California Connie Mack Association (NCCMA). Connie Mack is 18 & under (born after May 1, 1992). PCM is an invitation only program with players from high schools up and down the San Francisco Peninsula and Lower Peninsula.
Wood bat and seven (7) inning competitive baseball.
*** Okay to swing metal during Non League.
Where:	The NCCMA is divided into three (3) divisions. PCM is in the Coastal division, playing against California Smoke (Santa Clara University), NorCal 17s (St. Mary's College), Oakland Baseball Club (Bishop O'Dowd High), and Head First Bercovich (Chabot College). Along with league and non league games PCM will compete in two tournaments located in Sacramento and Stockton.
When: Games starting on June 4th and continuing to July 17th, with the possibility to extend into August if PCM qualifies for State Tournament (7/30 to 8/5) or National Tournament (8/8 – 8/13).
-Desire to improve, and a good attitude.


*Corresponding Author: Akash Bhatnagar, Assistant Professor, Department of Paediatric and Preventive Dentistry, Dr. Z.A Dental College and Hospital, AMU, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Citation: Akash Bhatnagar. "New CMCR Agent: Papacarie". Acta Scientific Dental Sciences 2.3 (2018).
Chemomechanical caries removal is a noninvasive method of caries removal using a chemical agent and hand instruments. In the current scenario, the main focus is on maximum preservation of tooth structure. CMCR is based on the concepts of minimal invasive dentistry (MID). The main objective of this method is to eliminate the infected soft dentin, leaving the affected dentin, which can be easily remineralized .
Papacarie containing papain gel is first introduced in Brazil, 2003 as CMCR agent and patented by ANVISA in Brazil. Papain gel extracted from the adult green papaya is one of the main component of this product. Chloramine and Toluidine Blue are the other two components. Papain gel acts as proteolytic enzyme on infected tissue with anti-inflammatory and bactericide characteristics. It's main action only on infected tissue which lacks the alpha-1-antitrypsin (plasmatic protease inhibitor). So, In the absence of protease inhibitor in infected tissues allows papain gel to break and dissolution of partially degraded collagen [2,3].
Copyright: © 2018 Akash Bhatnagar. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.


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Biografia
Attiva in gare FIS dal novembre del 2012, in Coppa del Mondo la Rönnlund ha esordito il 14 febbraio 2015 a Östersund (57ª) e ha ottenuto il primo podio l'8 dicembre 2019 a Lillehammer (3ª). In carriera non ha preso parte a rassegne olimpiche o iridate.

Palmarès

Mondiali juniores
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 1 oro (staffetta a Râșnov 2016)

Coppa del Mondo
 Miglior piazzamento in classifica generale: 49ª nel 2020
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Collegamenti esterni


Can I tell you guys something? It's very hard and very expensive. The first time my husband came to the United States it cost him over $10,000. That's $10,000 earned by someone who lived in Brazil. Remember, most people only earn about US$12/day. Can you actually fathom how much money that is to someone here in Brazil? It's about three to four years' salaries. Then, he said goodbye to everyone and everything he knew, boarded a plane, and landed in a country where he didn't understand the culture and didn't speak the language. Now, let me stop you before you say, "Well that was his choice (doesn't make it less hard). He came to a better place (that's subjective). He should have assimilated (he did, it takes time)." Or maybe you want to go the far less empathetic route and say you don't want South American immigrants in the U.S. at all? Well, my husband was a tax-paying, employed, charity-oriented, productive member of society, who never used a single penny of government assistance. Additionally, he cared for our children while I, a military member, was called to TDYs to serve the country. He was a very big supporter of the military. He purchased meals for the homeless, he volunteered to build houses with charities, and he always went annoyingly above and beyond to help people. And he learned English. Can you speak that highly for all Americans? My point in this rant/rave is that too many people are blessed with citizenship by simply being born in America. I'm not saying we should take away citizenship by birthright. But actions, to me, are much more important, if you want to talk about "who deserves to be here."
From my side of the coin immigrating is probably the scariest thing you can do in your life. Scarier than having kids. I thought I spoke pretty good Portuguese, I thought I was used to Brazilian food, I thought I was used to Brazilian culture. The absence of American culture - my native culture - has been extremely difficult. No one here speaks English or even pretends to accommodate me (which I don't expect them to, but I think it's awesome and also important that we do that in the U.S.). And I really, really miss the amalgamation of cultures in the United States. Everyone here is brown. Everyone here speaks Portuguese. It's very homogeneous. That didn't sink in until we were at a little luncheonette owned by a Japanese family (Brazil has a large immigrant Japanese population) and they started speaking Japanese. I realized that it was the first time in Brazil that I saw non-Brazilians speaking non-Portuguese. I can't walk into Target in the United States without hearing at least three different languages and walking past a Turkish woman, a Mexican man, a black teenage hipster, and a Starbucks and Uggs toting blonde. Oh my gosh how I miss the diversity! Even the buildings and the dirt here are brown. Brown, brown, everywhere.
I renewed my tourist visa and again, it was very, very difficult. I've found that a combination of having an adorable white, blonde, blue-eyed baby and lots and lots of tears will get me far in Brazil. We went to the Federal Police 10 minutes outside of town to inquire as to which documents I need for my permanent visa and were informed that they no longer provide those services and that we had to do it back in town where we came from. To make a long post short, we spend a day gathering required documents, paying required fees (across the city at the bank), almost killing each other, and I got a nice little stamp in my passport. Phew - good for another 90 days. Now to get my permanent visa. This is a little more tricky, in part because the government here likes to randomly shut down due to lack of funding. After another trip to the visa office, we gathered all our documents, made all our photocopies, paid over R$120 and spent half a day getting them notarized. Side note: I needed a document notarized that said I am my kids' mother and they are dependent on me. The notary asked if I spoke Portuguese and when I said a little, she responded, "Well, you're going to have to read that document back to me in Portuguese, but in your own words so I know you understand what you're signing." Queue my panic attack and forgetting everything I know. Thankfully I muddled my way through it. So the next time you come across an immigrant who fumbles their English, consider that they might be trying their best and just super nervous. Save the "speak English or get out" rant. End side note. Now I just need to pay another R$450 to the bank for my visa fees, bring the documents in, pass an inspection, and hopefully get my visa. PHEW!
I wish you the best of luck getting everything accomplished in time.
Thanks Liz, we're almost done with my stuff - now to concentrate on Farley's Visa. This is where the REAL headache begins!
When I first heard about the immigrant crisis, frankly I was thinking that there was a Muslim invasion of Europe specially considering that the neighboring Muslim countries (i.e. Saudi Arabia) have accepted 0 immigrants from Syria/Lebanon. Then there was the attack in Paris, and I've changed my mind! I think ISIS considers the immigrants as traitors to their own country/culture and wants Europe to close their doors to them, see them as threats to the land security. Well, the Western world should open their doors wide open then!!! Besides, it has been confirmed that some of the kamikaze in Paris were French nationals. That means that if there are ISIS members infiltrated into our countries, it's already done. It won't come from the new migrants.
I agree. I don't think it's any secret to us expats that many Brazilians in the states are there illegally, which raises the point that even if ISIS has NOT already infiltrated the country, and even if ISIS has NOT already recruited Americans, they could always cross the border. The whole "States should refuse refugees because militants could come with them" arguement can be countered too many ways. And I should mention that one of the ISIS leaders already admitted that he freely (illegally) crosses European borders. I'm working on my husband's Visa application now and all I can think about is how badly the whole process needs to be reformed. You can make fake a passport/visa, but if you're legitimately going through the process, PHEW!!!
So true! I found an old survey book I filled out and I realized I had left the "my thoughts on illegal immigration" section blank. I guess I was conflicted about it then. Well, I have a pretty solid opinion now. I'm NOT for illegal immigration, as liberal as I am, because it really, truly hurts illegal immigrants. I could write a whole book on how detrimental it is to a person, but the more important lesson that I learned on our immigration journey is that the process is MESSED UP! It wasn't AS bad coming to Brazil, even if it was terribly difficult, but going through the U.S. immigration process - I understand now why so many choose just to come illegally. But that path, while skipping the bureaucracy, is fraught with dangers - real deal, super scary, life or death dangers. For those who don't experience it, immigration is a fleeting thought and immigrants are easy to dismiss.
And it breaks my heart when even those closest to us, experiencing this, still side with the masses calling for stricter, harsher laws.
Right? And I want to vomit any time I hear the "my ancestors came here legally" argument. When? When they merely had to come over on a boat and sign a document?


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In search of an agriculture policy
By johnredwood | Published: September 15, 2018
This week the government produced an "Agriculture Bill". That is welcome, as farmers need to know what rules will apply and subsidies will be paid after March 29 next year if we just leave the EU then.
On reading the Bill, it emerges that it is not such much an agriculture bill as a Land management and environment bill. It seems to assume a 21 month delay in exiting the EU, which may or may not happen. Great emphasis is placed on the state paying taxpayers money for public goods which include public access, upholding heritage , protecting or improving the environment and action which "mitigates climate change". There is an added provision which is welcome which says "The Secretary of State may also give assistance for and in connection with the purpose of starting, or improving the agricultural productivity" of a farm.
An Agriculture Bill, and the agriculture policy, should primarily be about food production. That after all is the main purpose of farms and market gardens. There is a huge opportunity awaiting us as we leave the EU. Our market share for home produced temperate foodstuffs has slumped from over 90% to under 70% during our time under the CAP. A well designed domestic policy could reverse that. There is no good reason why Holland outcompetes us in a wide range of temperate vegetables and flowers, nor why we should be so dependent on Danish bacon, French dairy products and Irish beef. These are all things we can do more of ourselves. It would be a good environment policy to cut the food miles and satisfy more demand with local produce. It would also ensure good landscape gardening by farmers. Many of us find well tilled wheatfields or lush grazing meadows with herds of cows a great landscape where the farmer provides a good view free to the onlooker whilst also producing the food we need to eat.
I have made representations that more needs to be built into the policy to promote UK home grown food. Mr Gove needs to liaise with Dr Fox at Trade to ensure we have early sight of a good new tariff schedule for an independent UK. Products from farms and fishing vessels are the main items that attract high EU tariffs against the rest of the world. The UK needs to optimise its tariff schedule to provide lower tariffs on some world foods to help the consumer, whilst imposing sensible tariffs against continental competition for the temperate foods we could produce in bigger quantities for ourselves.
The second thing Mr Gove needs to do is to set out in more detail what grants and subsidies will be available for UK farmers wishing to improve and expand in UK food production to assist them with a substantial uplift in capacity that we need as we leave the EU. I was delighted to see recently Chapel Down Vineyard announce its search for an additional 400 acres for new vines, such is the demand for its product. Wine growing adds a lot of value to the basic grapes, and offers scope for much greater import substitution. It will also save a good few drink miles on the transport system, as lugging cases of wine in glass bottles around is costly and generates a lot of exhaust gases. There are many other specialist agricultural areas where we can expand production and add value.
Posted September 15, 2018 at 5:20 am | Permalink
They are assuming we sign up to the non regression clause whereby we don't compete. Remember politicians want Brexit to be a disaster.
It's testament to the influence of Brussels when the new agricultural policy mirrors EU policy.
Politicians have become very lazy and are only too eager to have foreigners legislating for us.
I bet in the Withdrawal Agreement we are supposed to adhere to EU quotas hence the lack of subsidies for increased production.
Nig l
This is a government and Civil Service that wants to stay close to the EU and Mr Gove is famous for his number one preoccupation, promoting Mr Gove.
There is therefore no chance that a policy would emerge that, by its content, clearly highlights the opportunities outside that organisation.
Twitcher
BBC. Centre of Gravity but not as we know it
"Sir Vince Cable has urged opponents of Brexit in other parties to join the Lib Dems to create a "more powerful force" in the centre ground of politics. " Power to his elbow if he feels up to it
Posted September 15, 2018 at 11:26 am | Permalink
Sir Vince Cable's followers consist of his own shadow and his reluctant dog…
" It would also ensure good landscape gardening by farmers"
I found the fields of yellow rapeseed flowers beautiful, they added a bright and clean feel to shades of green.
When I spoke to people about it, though not many, as such does not crop up much, they hated it. They did not tell me why. But they did say hate not just dislike
As more and more fields became bright yellow, I too hated it. I don't have the artist about me though I guess really bright flowers in excess are as welcome as the milder dandelion in same yellow-out of my eyes.
Much later, as if Flowers can make you anti-EU, they started saying "it was better before" which got an immediate "Yes" from others present (btw I walk an alsation). Then, still in a heavy Industrial area as opposed to agricultural…over time, more additions to "Hate" with Becauses" as if justifying some position or other. "Potato fields looked better ", " You had them full of peas once" "And cabbages" "There were all kinds of stuff"
Then, its "the EU , all they want is rape-oil,Huff!!
So, concentrated in less than three years I heard more criticisms of things growing in fields than for 50 years in total previously. In fact I only remember one comment in that time, and it was a family walk "You can make chewing gum just by chewing barley grains"
Don't ask me at what stage of development 🙂 . I had real chewing gum. They hadn't, my parents years ago..and didn't like my chewing gum at all and chewed some barley right then to show me.
Well, Remoaners said people didn't vote Brexit for just one reason. Remoaners get rattled. Head bangers even when perhaps right.
Producing food in our home country is more sensible & better for our landscape & quality of life. In recent years we have been importing ever more people to concrete over our green & pleasant land, occupy more living accommodation & import even more food to feed them.
margaret howard
Less than 10% of our land is concreted over – some say it may be as little as 3%.
Go down to Sussex Margaret and you will find your figures bear no meaning. Farm land is disappearing at an alarming rate and also old woodlands. Where we used to live in Sussex bears no resemblance to what it was a few years ago. You need to get out more.
Dave Andrews
Posted September 15, 2018 at 1:16 pm | Permalink
As only 25% of UK land is suitable for crops, that 10% represents 40% of good farmland.
Why is it that new housing developments always seem to displace agricultural land and never useless land?
Dominic Johnson
Agricultural land is already near to existing road, water, gas, electric and comms networks
Sussex also has a vibrant economy that wants, needs and can support new residents.
You could build houses on the heather moors of West Yorkshire, but it's building a city from scratch.
There so not much support for old residents let alone new ones. Hospital beds have been cut, schools are overcrowded and roads haven't been updated or bypasses built. Travel is a nightmare and a friend of ours has had to wait nearly a year to see a specialist after having a spinal stroke. Sussex is overcrowded.
It seems the anti-scientific, green crap loons have completely taken over the asylum in this area too.
We should be aiming to get subsidies out of farming as far as is possible and allow farmers do the things that are economically sensible without any government subsidy. This depending on the individul circumstances of their region and land.
Question Time as usual was hugely pro remain. Julia Hartley-Brewer the only voice of reason but out numbered 5:1. Any Questions likewise, do the BBC not have a duty of balance and why is nothing being done about it?
I assume becasue this bias suits the appalling Appeaser May.
I watched BBC on Thursday, just to see how biased and PC it has become. Early, there was another all -woman sleb show with them talking about their programmes. I woke up in time for Question Time, which I had given up watching as it is too annoying. Then Rory Stewart appeared and I had thought of him as a comparatively rare honest politician. But he too backed May and Robbins sell out and told us that it gave us what we wanted when we voted to Leave. Another liar. I was halfway through his book about walking with his father. I will now stop and give it to a charity shop, rather than burning it.
"The Secretary of State may also give assistance for and in connection with the purpose of starting, or improving the agricultural productivity"
I emphasised the word, may above as I believe the reason being is that before any subsidies are given he will have to seek permission from the relevant EU Commissioner. This is because we will not be leaving the EU. This is why so much of what our kind host writes criticize his own fellow MP's in government and the lack of clear information which should be common knowledge by now. It is therefore clear that the government, with the collusion of both Westminster and Whitehall, now seek to Remain in the EU via an Association Agreement or, EU-LITE as I have been saying.
Our kind host is in a difficult position. He wants to be seen to remain loyal to both the party, its leader, and to those that voted to leave. Sadly he, along with 17.4 million of us, are going to realise that such loyalty is not going to be reciprocated. The EU Project cannot be sidelined, let alone stopped.
As Theresa May herself once said:
https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/the-governments-negotiating-objectives-for-exiting-the-eu-pm-speech
"It would to all intents and purposes mean not leaving the EU at all."
Thank you, Denis
If the establishment keep us in the EU by association agreement, or EU-Lite, the electorate will see it as betrayal and not accept the situation.
Agreed JR is in an awkward position, but….next general election will be very interesting, like no other. Twisting the facts, lying, pleading etc will not work on the electorate next time around, and I doubt fence sitting will be seen as any kind of mitigation, rightly or wrongly there are going to be political casualties, but you have Theresa May to blame for that, she's a 'causer' i.e. someone who causes things usually detrimental unto others, while expecting to walk away scot free from the stink they've created.
If we are not completely satisfied with our departure from the EU, it's the end of the conservatives and they know it.
I suspect the conservatives recently lit a fire under Theresa May's backside, with the intent to replace her after March next year. Personally I don't think the public will buy into it, we want a leader who is not afraid to take on the likes of Barnier et al and tell the ungrateful scrotes how it works.
The people will be after guts for garters if our country is sold out in any way shape or form.
Though I can see some arguments for relocalizng the food chain (security, environmentt) I think tariffs should be low or zero for all fresh or other relatively healthy food stuffs. By all means sugar tax at the border, but there is a growing health/obesity issue in the UK and making healthier foods more accessible and affordable should be an aim.
There is a very heavy sugar tax on cane sugars already, along with some very limiting quotas. Beet sugars grown in the EU are of course tax free.
Sugar Beet imported into the EU is duty free unlike Cane used by UK producers which is heavily taxed.
Catterpillar I find that vegetables and indeed some fruit is very low in price compared to junk food. My daughter has just gone Vegan and says her shopping bill has halved.
Fedupsoutherner,
I agree with this for fruit and veg, much either UK grown or outside EU, hopefully more in the future with no food tariffs. But cheaper animal protein sources could be available, which I guess is an easier switch for some.people than going vegan.
Farmers should be given grants for replacing their horrid corrugated iron barns with nice
timber framed ones. This would help savetheplanet and also re-invigorate the carpenter's art so a win-win, then. It is important to distract farmers from considering what they should be sowing next year after we have left the EU and how large their herds should be because the Tory government hasn't a clue.
Shieldsman
The environmental Lobby is strong and is more concerned about global warming than farming.
I have spent many wonderful holidays in the English Lakes. Hill and Dairy Farmers do a fantastic job in looking after the Countryside. They often eke out a sparse existence, so do deserve good subsidies as guardians of the our Countryside.
Ah I don't know John..it all sounds very aspirational..but very hard to see how farmers who have been cushioned so much from the bother of actually physically farming, as we used to know it, very hard to see those people back out again in the fields doing something completely different. Farmers like a lot of the rest of us have gone soft over the years and are more used to driving Mercs than tractors…what you're at here and what the government is at with it's plan is only tinkering around the edges..if we leave without a deal then we have a huge problem..and it'll be one of reeducation more than anything else. The same goes for fishing and shipping..we are about to turn the whole world on its head.
Sir Joe Soap
No, this world has been turned on its head already, with farmers being paid not to farm, fishermen being paid to do something else instead of fishing.
We're about to turn this world onto its feet again hopefully.
Crazytimes
Yes..the most important word you say there is- 'hopefully'..hopefully the farmers can relearn and pick up the okd skills..hopefully the farmers will be able to motivate themselves to get up early and get out in the fields..but I doubt it
I see the Governor is talking short term rubbish again
Members of the European Free Trade Association are not necessarily members of the Common Agricultural Policy. We could remain in the EEA – on the Efta pillar – and still leave both CFP and CAP.
Not a lot of people know that.
Jagman84
We'd still be taking rules from the EU, Mike. It may suit the Government, but it is not what the majority voted for, in both the referendum and the last GE. Other nations manage perfectly well (not being in the EEA) and so can we.
"We could remain in the EEA"
So, Mike, have you secured clear written statements from all 4 of the parties to the EFTA Convention that they would be prepared to make the necessary changes to that treaty, and also from all 31 of the other parties to the EEA Agreement, which includes 3 of those EFTA states but also includes the EU itself, that they would be prepared to make the necessary changes to the EEA Agreement?
If so, did you make it clear to them that the UK would only want to use that as a temporary arrangement on its way out of the EU, and having caused them a lot of trouble by asking for those treaty changes, which I believe would have to be ratified by over 40 parliaments, the UK would quite soon be wanting another set of treaty changes to leave EFTA and the EEA, and in the meantime the UK intends to abuse a safeguard measure in the EEA Agreement to routinely control immigration from the other member states?
Perhaps you are among the lot of people who do not know that …
No harm in asking. Anyway, it is certainly better than you MP's plan. And no one is even buying that.
But he hasn't asked, has he, and nor has the government, so there are no grounds for his assertion … the point is that even if we wanted to do what he suggests it would not be our unilateral decision.
Make this claim when you can show there in unanimous support among all EEA Agreement counterparties including the EU itself, and the ability to secure the ratification of all the associated parliaments.
Once the UK leaves the EU, it automatically leaves the EEA. You don't get membership of the EEA unless you get membership of EFTA first. None of the EFTA countries are looking forward to a UK application.
formula57
So this government is using its myopic vision to mess-up agriculture just as it does with everything else then!
Food production is insufficient to sustain the country and so we are reliant upon imports. Just as with energy policy, one would hope the government's policies and actions would show rather more awareness of the risks that then arise.
There has been much concern raised over the potential lack of harvesting workforce once the eastern Europeans stop coming here.
Can the government set up programmes to mobilise seasonal staff to fulfil this requirement?
Unemployed people in cities will not have access to the opportunities in rural areas for occasional work, without some organisation making this possible.
Dave, perhaps I'm missing something, but if squads of seasonal workers can venture here, from Eastern Europe say, why can't UK residents move from one county area to another? After all, there are such things as roads, trains, buses and coaches to assist such an immense enterprise!
What you might be missing is that it is worth people with initiative coming from eastern Europe, because minimum wage here corresponds with a good job where they come from.
Those here whose unemployment is the consequence of generational benefits dependency are somewhat short of initiative.
Most crops can be harvested using machinery, there was an excellent clip on TV about a French wine producer picking and grading grapes using a tractor attachment.
using unskilled immigrants to pick crops is the lazy way and a backdoor route for immigration.
If labour was genuinely required then a Work Permit should be issued for a specific period and the farmer should be responsible for providing accommodation and health insurance.
If the permit holder stayed in the country then the farmer would be denied a replacement.
This should be the case for all sectors of the economy.
Except it is not true. There are still plenty of crops – strawberries for example – which can not be picked by machine. And people who build the machines estainate it will be at least 10 years til they can make one.
I vote that we send pensioners out to pick fruit. Get them out of their overheated homes, into buses and take them out to the fields to work for their pensions. They wanted Brexit. They don't like foreigners. Let them pick up the slack.
Of course it would lead to a drop in viewing figures for Countdown but there are few other downsides.
I said most crops Andy. I do appreciate your difficulties with the English language.
I am happy for people like you to go out and pick strawberries – but you don't want to.
I am happy for migrants to pick strawberries – but people like you don't want to let them in.
I am happy for strawberries to rot in our fields as I can afford imported ones.
Will you tell the British strawberry growers that you have voted for them to go out of business?
We want pickers to be let in.
It has always been government policy to allow such visas and after brexit this will continue.
So your self created problem doesn't exist.
It is just more project fear fantasy from people like you.
Oh dear Andy. Not got out into the real world yet? The pensioners I know don't resemble those that you describe. The ones I know are still working and many are running their own businesses and very successful they are too. Others are volunteering often helping the young and others are looking after grandchildren to enable the parents to work. You obviously lead a sheltered life.
Beecee
Andy – I thought your strawberries grew on trees?
"It seems to assume a 21 month delay in exiting the EU"
I don't know why that should be 21 months rather than the 24 months of an oxymoronic "status quo" or "standstill" transition, but I think it is worth going back to the original idea that some necessary legal and practical changes would only be completed step by step after we had left the EU, just as some legal and practical changes were only completed gradually after the EEC was formed, and also after we had joined it.
For example, here in November 2016:
http://johnredwoodsdiary.com/2016/11/27/silly-forecasts/#comment-844780
"As mentioned before, the 1957 Treaty of Rome said that the common market would be established over a period of twelve years after the treaty had come into force."
And that is what Theresa May said originally, before she stabbed us in the back:
http://johnredwoodsdiary.com/2018/03/20/uk-energy/#comment-925967
"In her original Lancaster House speech of January 17th 2017 Theresa May spoke about the need for an "implementation period" after we had left the EU, which she described in these terms, my CAPITALS for emphasis:
"… we believe a PHASED process of implementation, in which both Britain and the EU institutions and member states prepare for the new arrangements that will exist between us will be in our mutual self-interest. This will give businesses enough time to plan and prepare for those new arrangements.
This might be about our immigration controls, customs systems or the way in which we co-operate on criminal justice matters. Or it might be about the future legal and regulatory framework for financial services. FOR EACH ISSUE, THE TIME WE NEED TO PHASE-IN THE NEW ARRANGEMENTS MAY DIFFER. Some might be INTRODUCED VERY QUICKLY, some might take longer. And the interim arrangements we rely upon are likely to be a matter of negotiation.
But the purpose is clear: we will seek to avoid a disruptive cliff-edge, and we will do everything we can to PHASE IN the new arrangements we require as Britain and the EU move towards our new partnership."
I was foolish enough to take Theresa May at her word and assume that there would simply be the kind of the transitional provisions which are a commonplace feature of international treaties.
It didn't occur to me that the opposition might propose and the government might accept an oxymoronic "status quo" transition in which nothing at all would change, and with control of our fishing waters still being exercised by the EU despite the real prospect of our fishing fleet being wiped out in the meantime.
Now finally there are some politicians and commentators who are openly admitting what has long been obvious, that this so-called "transition" is not a transition at all, it is just a "standstill", and it has become a gross betrayal."
So far as I can see this government will fall of the cliff edge long before the country does.
The Transition (do nothing phase) is to move the cliff edge to 2020 so they can extend the transition (do nothing phase) another b2 years and so on ad infinitum.
Denis, it is 21 months because that takes it to the end of the 2014 – 2020 EU seven year budget period. The EU bloc's multi-annual financial framework (MFF) for 2021-2027, starts 01/01/2021. The Brexit divorce bill calculations are principally based on these EU budget periods.
Fishknife
There are millions of sheep in Wales… so why is Welsh Lamb so rare and expensive?
Farms need seasonal pickers who need seasonal accommodation, which could be 'holiday cottages' for the rest of the year.
Students need living expenses, and an introduction to the work ethic.
Universities could schedule courses round harvest time.
Fishknife. Not only in Wales but Scotland too. I only buy lamb when the shops have New Zealand lamb in stock at a fraction of the price and just as good. Something goes badly wrong between the farm and the shop regarding prices.
The average Welsh sheep farm is 200acres
The smallest new Zealand sheep farms are 2000.
We don't have farms in Europe, we have small holdings
And some like my neighbours get a subsidy for farming 40 sheep. Smallholding, yes.
Good thinking Fish knife
If voters bring in John McDonnell, there may be more cash released for everyone including agriculture once the banks are put in their place as servants of society. The philosophy now seems to be that banks make themselves masters over people by the misuse of money. "Labour in government will put finance to work for the real economy."
This new policy reeks of lefty environmentalist interference. I've seen it all before, but its getting worse. It sounds like the 'Country File' Disneyland theme-park vision of farming: total anathema, and ruinous! More self-destruct mode. I also detect plenty of EU-speak, which is rampant in Defra. Please leave the farmers alone, and let them do what they know best. Also, NFU apparatchiks are not always representative of the rank and file. The big boys have a very different worldview to the smaller outfits, which are the backbone of rural Britain as a whole.
Michael Gove seems to have appointed himself as some kind of Green Crusader since he switched sides. Let's hope that the little green men, who have infiltrated Whitehall, don't tell him that the best way to stop climate change is to ban cows from passing methane and the only way to do this is to have no cattle. While we are at it we can ban sheep and pigs too and turn the downs over to wood pellet production and the fields to biofuels and soya. The burgers and sausages made to the recipes of a pop star's late wife actually taste very nice and I have come to prefer them after my son became a veggie but doesn't like the soyaburgers I bought him. The main drawback though, which apparently the green men have not thought about, is that 'human beans', also tend to produce large amounts of methane after eating soya, so much so in my case that I have to spend the night in isolation.
RupertP
My family farms 1,500 acres for arable production (wheat, oil seed rape, combinable beans and oats). Our farm is already very efficient (only 2 men do all the farming) and we use the latest equipment and achieve above average results from our farming efforts. The public does not seem to understand that food prices are incredibly low by historic standards (£150 for a tonne of wheat means 15 pence for 1Kg wheat, enough for 2 loaves of bread).
JR is absolutely right that we should be "imposing sensible tariffs against continental competition", as the truth is that most UK farms (including efficient ones) are ONLY profitable as a result of farm subsidies, which makes up between 15% and 20% of our total income. With the UK government wishing to phase out farming subsidies, farmers need crops in the UK to rise in price by 15-20% to make up the lost income and NOT to have UK prices undermined by subsidised crops from the EU and elsewhere in the world.
The worry for UK farmers is that the government is going to impose on UK farmers a double whammy – Firstly, our markets will be fully opened to "free trade" from EU producers with no tarriffs and their farmers will continue to be subsidised in the way that we are now, whereas the UK intends removing subsidies from farmers, so we will no longer be able to compete on price with EU producers.
Secondly, Gove's proposal is for payment for public goods provided by farmers. We've looked at existing environmental schemes from DEFRA and almost all are too marginal financially to bother with – The net income from these schemes (subsidy less cost of work to obtain the subsidy) is simply too small and does not replace subsidy income which is provided without incurring a lot of additional cost. Our hard working farm staff are already fully occupied with trying to produce crop output at ultra low prices to be able to spend a lot more time cultivating lots of additional small plots across the farm to provide more wild meadows for bird food etc.
No doubt the government will trumpet all the subsidies that are available to farmers under the new regime and then be "very surprised" when there is much lower take-up than expected.
Thank you Rupert, it is good to get facts from those directly involved – sadly, it won't come as much of a surprise to many of us.
I agree. Many thanks Rupert.
It would be sensible to link continued farm subsidies to specific incentives to keep – or in places to make – the countryside beautiful, to require proper maintenance of public access via footpaths etc. Also, once we are shot of EU regulation and can introduce GM crops, hopefully farmers can become far less reliant than now on spreading pesticides which do so much to destroy wild flowers, habitats and food for song birds etc. I think the post EU environment could be very positive for farmers and for those who live in and visit rural areas.
You think Gove and his band of Green civil masters will go for GM crops? Pigs might fly.
Thanks for the clear summary Rupert.
This begs the question how we could have any free trade agreement at all with the EU as long as they maintain the CAP, CFP and subsidies for the energy and manufacturing sectors.
We should be taking advantage of Brexit to end the nonsense of biofuels. Burning woodchips to generate electricity is counterproductive and expensive, being heavily subsidised by billpayers.
Biodiesel and ethanol reduce vehicle mpg and can be damaging for engines not designed for these fuels. We could grow food crops or pastures instead of subsidising energy crops that turn out to be not really green anyway if you examine their full impacts.
Couldn't agree more Mark
Food Security and self sufficiency must go hand in hand with nurturing the soil and the environment. Stop concreting over fields.
JoolsB
"This week the government produced an "Agriculture Bill". "
John, can you confirm any agricultural policies the UK Government comes up with will affect the UK as a whole or will Scotland, Wales & NI be given yet more powers to make their own agricultural policies that work in their best interests whilst UK politicians, including those from Scotland, Wales & NI will continue to dictate what happens in England.
How on earth is that going to work?
John, I wish you could be in charge. Gove seems to have lost the plot. Caring for the environment is good but we need to concentrate on increasing food production as we leave the EU. Farmers need time to breed more livestock and given help to achieve this objective. Fishermen can't fish unless they have trawlers. Help must be provided to build new trawlers and fish processing plants. It seems to me that the Government is so caught up in delaying and thwarting Brexit that they haven't given any thought to preparing to reap the future benefits.
In agriculture, as in every other area, the government is blithely sowing mines as it goes along, then standing back and ordering us to walk forwards over them.
Poetish
These "comments" about "agriculture". A lament
Darkening beauty
Leaving the EU is like moving into a great house but with so much to do in the garden
Posted September 15, 2018 at 10:33 pm | Permalink
A good simile, poetish, and one that caught the attention of an English poet a century ago, at the end of another conflict. I think he put it rather well:
"Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
By singing:-" Oh, how beautiful," and sitting in the shade
While better men than we go out and start their working lives
At grubbing weeds from gravel-paths with broken dinner-knives.
There's not a pair of legs so thin, there's not a head so thick,
There's not a hand so weak and white, nor yet a heart so sick
But it can find some needful job that's crying to be done,
For the Glory of the Garden glorifieth every one.
Then seek your job with thankfulness and work till further orders,
If it's only netting strawberries or killing slugs on borders;
And when your back stops aching and your hands begin to harden,
You will find yourself a partner In the Glory of the Garden.
Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees
That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees,
So when your work is finished, you can wash your hands and pray
For the Glory of the Garden that it may not pass away!
And the Glory of the Garden it shall never pass away ! "
I have always loved this poem of sorts, in a movie when he SAID..the actor… in my opinion, to make it go, so to speak
We seek him here, we seek him there,
Those Frenchies seek him everywhere.
Is he in heaven? — Is he in hell?
That damned, elusive Pimpernel 🙂
The director of an important Shakespeare Library has asked about Churchill's connections to Shakespeare (aside for them being the two greatest Englishmen)
"Life is but a dream, within a dream."<- This is the real Shakespeare
Sink me, I cannot think what it all means. Hands up anyone who knows!
gregory martin
The Agriculture Bill may be downloaded here:
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/2017-2019/0266/cbill_2017-20190266_en_1.htm
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/landmark-agriculture-bill-to-deliver-a-green-brexit
The 68 line press bulletin , from which most of the press coverage was derived, does not contain the word 'Food' at all!!
I'm a bit late to this party but the bill's contents show just how Gove is the wring type of mind to be in the job. I wonder how many farms he has been to see and stayed on long enough each time to hear what farmers say and to understand them. He'd rather spend his time virtue signaling his green credentials as a supplicant to the Green lobby.
And could I ask Mr Redwood, if the bill not significantly amended will you vote against it. Otherwise you just encourage this nonsense. And I hope you wouldn't wish to play with the word 'significantly'.
And finally I am in Holland at the moment and would like to a comparison sometime between it and us in terms of industrial and agricultural policy and production. They seem well off and well administered – ahead of us.


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Lamb – Lamb (1996)
Style: Trip Hop, Downtempo, Drum n Bass, Experimental
Format: CD, Vinyl
Label: Mercury, Fontana
01. Lusty
02. God Bless
03. Cotton Wool
04. Trans Fatty Acid
05. Zero
06. Merge
07. Gold
08. Closer
09. Górecki
10.1. Feela
10.2. Cotton Wool (Fila Brazillia Mix)
Cello – The Chainsaw Sisters
Double Bass – Jon Thorne, Paddy Steer
Guitar – Steve Christian
Written-By – Andrew Barlow, Louise Rhodes
Lamb is Andy Barlow and Louise Rhodes. 'Lamb' is their debut album, and it has been widely publicised that Andy and Lou are very very different people. This brings a fantastic contrast to a lot of songs here.
The Review:
A perfect opener. Starts out with some sampled organ and then a really good trip-hoppish beat kicks in. It dies out for the verse, but only for a second. The beat carries this song, and Lou's vocals drift and flow over everything perfectly. This track gives quite the impression, and has really perfect real/sampled drums.
02 God Bless
Starts softly again, with some building percussion in the form of those jingly things. It builds up really nicely, and feels epic, even though the build is rather fast. It's a much more subtle beat this time round, and some strings complement the vocal line beautifully. Really nice lyrics. Incredible song. Awesome breakdown which reveals itself as a chorus.
03 Cotton Wool The first single, I believe. This song is chaotic. The beat is everywhere. The chaos creeps up on you though, and makes the song, again, perfect. It would have been really easy for the vocals to go all non-melodic to go with the beat in the second verse, but lou's vocals just carry themselves over everything. The lyrics to this song are wonderful also.
04 Trans Fatty Acid
The first sign of non-perfection on the album. The intro is a bit strange. The verse comes in though, and it is rather cool. This is the longest track on the album. The verses start to get a little drudgy, and then something happens. Well, not much really, but the drumbeat really gets stuck in you. It's quite a good song, but comparatively, nowhere near.
Probably my favourite track on the album, and one of my favourite songs ever. It starts with some cello picking which is accompanied by another cello and lou's voice. Beauty. A really really really nice chorus comes in. Then something almost happens. But it doesn't. Hold on. Another chorus. Then it happens. My favourite musical moment ever probably. Lou's voice is perfection.
06 Merge
A much more electronic based instrumental. The intro repeats a few times, and some trumpet comes in. Probably sampled. It has a really really good feel to it, and it is really laid back, and refreshing.
Starts with some really cool double bass, and the vocals kick right in. It all comes in wonderfully after a small break, and the melody in the background is cool as hell. Lou's voice is especially cool here. The backing vocals make the song extra special, and it is really well structured. It breaks down with some rad *** electronic stuff, and is very hooky. The half way point is awesome.
08 Closer
Another really cool beat, with some rather cool lyrics. Lou gives insight into what life is, but then brings is quickly back to earth. Some really beautifully simple lines here, and it works really well. Some more effects double on top for the second verse and give the song a great fullness.
09 Gorecki
The song. A lot of people know this song. Or at least that's what I've heard. This song is absolutely brilliant. One of the most beautiful and perfect pieces of music I know. There are many moments in this song which give me chills down my spine, and oh, it is just. Wow. An epic love song. My favourite love song ever probably.
10 Feela
The song starts with a simple melody. Lou comes in, and the vocal line is great yet again. It is a really good closer on the album, and it seems like Gorecki would have been a better closer, but this song is equally good as a closer. Some background noise hints at a blast, and then a really faint piano is heard playing really fast. It all gets more controlled, and then the cello comes in. Awesome. It stays quiet, and fades out wonderfully.
Secret Track - Cotton Wool (Filia Brazilia Mix)
The secret track starts 2 minutes after Feela ends, and is a remix of Cotton Wool. I really really dig this version. It is just as good as the original version. I really love the changes, and it is hell different.
Frankly, Lamb make me wanna buy a minidisc recorder and sample things. They make me want to play trip-hop, or dance music. They are one of my favourite bands of all time, and this is in my top 10 albums ever. A perfect album as a whole, and a must buy for anyone who is faintly into anything beautiful, scenic, or trip-hoppy.
Tapeworm / sputnik music
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Labels: Lamb
Harold Budd – Bandits Of Stature (2012)
Label: Darla Records
01. The Dream Of The Girl At The Lonely Desert Cafe
02. Claude Lorrain Avoids The Cinder Block Motel
03. Nicolas Poussin Near 29 Palms
04. Perfume Doesn't Dance
05. Shout (For Jane Maru)
06. The Moss Of Imagination
07. Puvis Startled By Joy
08. Seven Colonnades
09. Veil Of Orpheus (Cy Twombly's)
10. Haru Spring (String Quartet Version)
11. From The Sea Of Changes
12. Bandits Of Stature
13. Llano
14. Babylon Balboa
Cello – Ashley Walters
Viola – Andrew McIntosh
Violin – Andrew Tholl, Mark Menzies
Composed By – Harold Budd
"...Harold [Budd]'s piano is always recognizable within the first three notes of any song."
The above sentence, from Bandits of Stature's press release, is a quite the compliment. Many a musician would sacrifice their right arm if it meant having a recognizable musical personality, even if it took them two dozen notes to reach it. But like his contemporary Brian Eno, Harold Budd has long considered himself a non-musician. Rather than boast any kind of musical knowledge and skill, Budd has been happy just being a reluctant conduit between good ideas and fancy tools. This humble approach to minimalism has led to many fruitful collaborations with some very like-minded individuals such as Eno, ex-Cocteau Twin Robin Guthrie, Clive Wright, Jon Hassell and ex-XTC songwriter Andy Partridge, of all people. On Bandits of Stature, Harold Budd is taking on the string quartet form with the Formalist Quartet along for the ride. The album is made up of two large works broken into smaller movements -- "Merry-Go-Round" and "String Quartet 2003". Budd plays piano on one track, "Veil of Orpheus (Cy Twombly's)", the conclusion of the "Merry-Go-Round" suite.
I wish there was more to report on Bandits of Stature, but there isn't. If there wasn't much going on in the mechanics of Little Windows, Bordeaux and Through the Hill, there was at least an accessible sense of sound to them, allowing for the teleportation of one's imagination. If Budd could transport you to your happy place in three notes, a guy like Guthrie needed only two notes with lots of reverb to appropriately compliment Budd's piano and synthesizers. Bandits of Stature has a very dry sound, aesthetically and literally, as nonabsorbent as the wood in a violin workshop. The 34-minute "Merry-Go-Round" suite is supposed to be repetitive. After all, it's named after a ride that goes in a circular motion where only children get a true sense of payoff. But it's discouraging how Budd's three-note calling card tries in vain to translate to the art of the string quartet. What the suite does have going for it is a singular display of mood and probably a future in academic study. These are the only recommendations I can offer.
The 11-minute "String Quartet 2003" continues the same molasses pace of swells rotated into the ground as "Merry-Go-Round", though the harmonic makeup branches out a little bit. It's more interesting than the first extended work, but only comparatively. If it were on any other Harold Budd release, it could easily be overlooked. Actually, any of the fourteen tracks of Bandits of Stature would get lost in any other Harold Budd release. For someone who can announce his entrance after just three notes on the piano, these works are frustratingly anonymous.
John Garratt / popMATTERS
Labels: Bandits Of Stature, Harold Budd
Brian Eno with Daniel Lanois & Roger Eno – Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks (1983)
Label: Editions EG, Polydor, Virgin, Astralwerks
01. Under Stars
02. The Secret Place
03. Matta
04. Signals
05. An Ending (Ascent)
06. Under Stars II
07. Drift
08. Silver Morning
09. Deep Blue Day
10. Weightless
11. Always Returning
12. Stars
Arranged By– Brian Eno
Composed By – Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois
Performer – Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois, Roger Eno
Producer – Brian Eno, Dan Lanois
From Brian Eno's Original Masters Soundtracks Series comes Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks. Originally released in 1983 on EG Records, this Virgin incarnation betters the sound quality of the earlier Caroline CD release of this title and is a vast improvement over the vinyl. One can hear super deep tones in the music reproduced for the first time in a full-throated manner, and the perspective of distance opens into vast vistas of the emptiness of space, rather than into a haze of tracking error as did the long player.
Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks is usually cited as an Eno album, but it is actually a three-way collaboration between Brian Eno, producer Daniel Lanois, and Roger Eno. It was created for the Al Reinert film For All Mankind, in itself not completed until 1989, but ultimately lauded as the best film documentary on the early years of the NASA space program. Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks, as one would expect, is appropriately spacey and slow moving, but is divided up mostly into rather short cues. Some of the first cues, such as Matta, make use of strategies that are oblique indeed; incorporating a small measure of inarticulate sounds, such as thumping noises, to help build tension, and as such is some of the most challenging ambient music that Eno has written.
Eno's adherents proclaim Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks as the best of his ambient productions, though it has an Achilles heel. Silver Morning, composed by Lanois alone, seems to stick out like a sore thumb in contrast to the rest of the material, its jangling and bright steel slide being sort of like Michael Hedges suddenly stepping out onto the barren surface of the moon. Deep Blue Day follows suit, but doubtless these tracks would not have been created if they didn't fit what they were intended for, and the participants were so enthusiastic about the two that at one point they were combined onto a limited-edition 45. By the concluding Stars, Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks is back in its element, and this eight-minute ambient track truly is one of Eno's finest creations. Even though Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks may be more of a mixed bag compared to, say Music for Airports, as one reviewer said about its corresponding film, it is a shame that Apollo isn't longer than it is.
Uncle Dave Lewis / AllMusic
Labels: Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks, Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois, Roger Eno
Brian Eno with Daniel Lanois & Roger Eno – Apollo...


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Brabham: "I Won't Be Doing A Don Panoz"
In what was a whirlwind week for Brabham Automotive, chief test driver and founder David Brabham was present at the Racing Car Show. And, despite our best efforts, it was certainly difficult to get much new information out of him in the short time he could spare on Thursday.
Given the BT62 is very much built to a formula of ideals for a GT/Endurance race car, and that its architecture is going to be used for the GTE car and its road-going equivalent, it was posed to David that his eponymous firm could follow McLaren's universal engine and carbon tub concept.
He did not definitively answer this question, but he did say that it was unlikely that we'd see anything as left-field as the seemingly intentionally contrary Panoz GTR1, and spoke of the firm's late founder fondly.
Brabham said: "There's only one Don Panoz. I'm not even going to try and follow his route! I had a wonderful six years at Panoz, and he did think outside the box. But not only that, he acted outside the box. If people said 'don't do it', he did it. He wanted to prove people wrong, and that's what he did – he had the money to do it, as well!"
Don's Day of Days in 2002 – His 'Spirit of America' LMP Roadster takes the Win on the Streets of Washington DC with David Brabham and Jan Magnussen
Such was the busy nature of Brabham's career in that time, and the years that followed with Aston Martin and Peugeot, his visit to Adelaide for a meeting with Brabham Automotive investors Fusion Capital was the first since the 'Race of A Thousand Years' in 2000!
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