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Introduction and Notes by Dr Ian Littlewood, University of Sussex. Adultery is not a typical Jane Austen theme, but when it disturbs the relatively peaceful household at Mansfield Park, it has quite unexpected results. The diffident and much put-upon heroine Fanny Price has to struggle to cope with the results, re-examining her own feelings while enduring the cheerful amorality, old-fashioned indifference and priggish disapproval of those around her.


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Diversity & Inclusion Recognition Awards
Nareit's Diversity & Inclusion Recognition Awards honor both Nareit member companies and individual members who have demonstrated a strong commitment and made outstanding contributions to the advancement of diversity and inclusion (D&I ) within their companies as well as in the REIT community.
The application process for Nareit's second annual Diversity & Inclusion Recognition Awards is now open. Awards will be presented in November at Nareit's REITworld: 2020 Annual Conference.
Nareit's Diversity & Inclusion Corporate Recognition Awards
All Nareit corporate members are eligible. Nominated companies should have demonstrated a strong commitment to the advancement of diversity and inclusion. Any staff member of the company may submit the application. Judging will be done by ESG experts who work outside the REIT community and will not see the names of the applicants.
2020 applications are closed. You can sign up here for updates and news about the awards.
Nareit's Diversity & Inclusion Individual Recognition Awards
All Nareit individual members and employees of Nareit corporate member companies are eligible to be nominated. Judging will be done by ESG experts who work outside the REIT community and will not see the names of the applicants.
Questions? Reach out to member@nareit.com.
The 2020 Corporate Award winners include:
Gold: Ventas, Inc.
Silver: Alexander & Baldwin, Inc.
Bronze: Essex Property Trust, Inc.
The 2020 Individual Award winner is: Dawnita Wilson, vice president of diversity and inclusion, JBG SMITH
Nareit's inaugural Diversity & Inclusion Recognition Awards were presented at Nareit's REITworld: 2019 Annual Conference.
The Corporate Award winners:
Gold: Duke Realty Corporation (DRE)
Silver: Healthpeak Properties, Inc. (HCP)
Bronze: Camden Property Trust (CPT)
Individual Award: James Connor, chairman and CEO of Duke Realty Corporation.

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Biografia

Figlio di Lazare Carnot e fratello del fisico Sadi Carnot, nel 1815 seguì il padre, ex membro del Direttorio, nell'esilio in Germania che durò fino al 1823.

Impeditogli di partecipare alla vita politica, pubblicò nel 1828 una traduzione dei Canti ellenici di Wilhelm Müller e nel 1830 un' Esposizione della dottrina sansimoniana. Negli stessi anni collaborò al giornale sansimoniano Il produttore.

Si distaccò dal sansimonismo solo nel 1830. Massone, fu iniziato nella loggia Les Incorruptibles nel 1840.

Nel 1839 fu eletto deputato della sinistra radicale dopo la caduta di Luigi Filippo d'Orléans e rieletto poi nel 1842 e 1846.

Nel febbraio 1848 fu scelto da Alphonse de Lamartine come Ministro dell'Istruzione, carica che mantenne fino al luglio dello stesso anno. Nel 1851 si schierò contro il colpo di stato di Napoleone III e ottenne un seggio all'opposizione nel 1864.

Eletto nuovamente nel 1871 dopo una sosta di due anni, fu eletto nel 1875 al senato. Morì tre mesi dopo l'elezione di suo figlio Marie François Sadi Carnot alla presidenza della repubblica.

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Has anyone tethered over bluetooth?
Discussion in 'Microsoft Surface Accessories' started by CrippsCorner, Oct 3, 2013.
Uusing wifi atm but I find it drains the battery quite badly on my iPhone as it's constantly connected even when I'm not using it.
My theory is that if I go via bluetooth, it'll only tether within range? Meaning I could leave the iPhone downstairs and it wouldn't be draining the battery. So, how to do this? I've managed to pair it... but then what? Any help appreciated.
I have done it, but it really didn't work as well between my iPhone and my iPad or my iPhone and MacBook Pro. It had a shorter range, and dropped more. But it was pretty easy to do. I don't have a current way to do it ( sold everything and waiting for my SP2)... What are you hoping to find out?
IM like the op, I got them paired but I couldn't get the tethering going like on my android tablets. It was frustrating so I tried the usb method and worked right away.
Yeah USB works fine... but I don't like having things plugged in where I can avoid it! It's that or the battery draining with wifi, take your pick I guess.
My BT tethering in samsung vibrant android phone using bluetooth Dun software works flawlessly.
I think its dependent on what phone you use also. Weird but I've seen cases like this posted on xda all the time with android tablets.


The capture of Saddam Hussein is pointing up one of the great ironies facing Democrats when they mull their party's foreign policy: President Bush has stolen it.
Bush's prosecution of the Iraq war — like his "No Child Left Behind" educational program and his Medicare prescription drug plan — seeks to beat Democrats by joining them on what was formerly their exclusive turf. By promoting democracy abroad and stealing the Democrats' signature theme — progressive internationalism — Bush has left the Democrats with scant room to formulate an alternative foreign policy, analysts say.
Without room to challenge Bush's overriding policy, Democrats instead have focused on their narrow tactical differences with the president over his alleged unilateralism in conducting the war, or on what they consider his politicization of intelligence regarding Saddam's weapons of mass destruction.
Leaving aside the question of Bush's Wilsonian bona fides — some foreign policy analysts see his democracy talk as a cover for much more limited, nationalist aims in Iraq — Bush clearly has defined the terms of debate. That has left the Democrats scrambling trying to distinguish themselves from each other and him.
Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut, the premier liberal internationalist hawk in the party, has carved out a spot to the right of Bush on many issues, stressing that he supported Saddam's ouster since 1991 and now calling for Saddam's death. Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio, who opposed the Iraq war and calls for America to bring home the troops and to spend the money here, represents the opposite polarity: the left-liberal isolationism that found its fullest expression in the 1972 presidential campaign of Senator George McGovern. Between the two is former Vermont governor Howard Dean, who opposed the Iraq war but claims he is "no pacifist." The other candidates squeeze themselves between Dean and Lieberman, with retired general Wesley Clark and Massachusetts Senator John Kerry closer to Dean and Rep. Richard Gephardt of Missouri and Senator John Edwards of North Carolina closer to Lieberman.
That makes political sense entering the Democratic primaries. Anti-war sentiment remains high among Democratic voters, polls find, with only slightly more than a third supporting the war. It is a dicey general election proposition, however: About 60% of Americans supported going to war in Iraq. According to an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll taken this weekend, respondents said by a 62%-to-32% majority that the war in Iraq has made America more secure, a rise from the 52%-to-43% margin the same poll found in September.
"He made a basically centrist Democratic speech," said Morton Abramowitz, a former ambassador to Turkey who supports Clark.
Dean tilled ground on the left, however, by stating that Saddam's capture had not made America any safer, a statement that was roundly condemned by rivals including Lieberman, Kerry, Gephardt and Edwards.
Lieberman and Kerry, for their part, both marshaled Wilsonian arguments in attacking Dean.
All this is not to say Bush necessarily wins on the foreign policy he's followed. While Saddam's capture, for the moment, puts Iraq in the plus column for Bush, the Sunni insurgency there has not ended and the possibility of a terrorist attack here represents an incalculable factor. But if things go reasonably well for the United States abroad, "it reduces Iraq as a winning political issue" for the Democrats, Abramowitz said.
Good news as tough shakes?
This story "Bush's Internationalist Push Has Dems Grasping for Policy" was written by E.J. Kessler.


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A differential k-mer analysis pipeline for comparing RNA-Seq transcriptome and meta-transcriptome datasets without a reference
Chan, Chon-Kit Kenneth, Rosic, Nedeljka, Lorenc, Michał T., Visendi, Paul, Lin, Meng, Kaniewska, Paulina, Ferguson, Brett J., Gresshoff, Peter M., Batley, Jacqueline, Edwards, David
Functional & integrative genomics 2019 v.19 no.2 pp. 363-371
corals, data collection, gene expression, gene expression regulation, genes, quantitative polymerase chain reaction, reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction, sequence analysis, soybeans, transcriptome
Next-generation DNA sequencing technologies, such as RNA-Seq, currently dominate genome-wide gene expression studies. A standard approach to analyse this data requires mapping sequence reads to a reference and counting the number of reads which map to each gene. However, for many transcriptome studies, a suitable reference genome is unavailable, especially for meta-transcriptome studies which assay gene expression from mixed populations of organisms. Where a reference is unavailable, it is possible to generate a reference by the de novo assembly of the sequence reads. However, the high cost of generating high-coverage data for de novo assembly hinders this approach and more importantly the accurate assembly of such data is challenging, especially for meta-transcriptome data, and resulting assemblies frequently suffer from collapsed regions or chimeric sequences. As an alternative to the standard reference mapping approach, we have developed a k-mer-based analysis pipeline (DiffKAP) to identify differentially expressed reads between RNA-Seq datasets without the requirement for a reference. We compared the DiffKAP approach with the traditional Tophat/Cuffdiff method using RNA-Seq data from soybean, which has a suitable reference genome. We subsequently examined differential gene expression for a coral meta-transcriptome where no reference is available, and validated the results using qRT-PCR. We conclude that DiffKAP is an accurate method to study differential gene expression in complex meta-transcriptomes without the requirement of a reference genome.


Samsung company faced a huge loss after launching their new smartphone Galaxy Note 7 because many phones very blasts in different places and many peoples were injured. After many tests and researches, the Samsung company has reported the reason of Note 7 incidents and answers all questions in a session held in Seoul city in Korea.
The Samsung company faces many losses not only in smartphones but in all other electronic of Samsung, which include manufacturing TV panels and semiconductor chips for others. The companies smartphone business was pressured so they Invest 128 Million dollars in Battery Division to improve battery safety so they can come back with best quality phones.
To discover the main reason of the Galaxy Note 7 blasts, Samsung examined each part of the Galaxy Note 7, Through a huge scale testing office where around 700 Samsung specialists and architects repeated the occurrences by testing more than 200,000 completely collected gadgets and more than 30,000 batteries, After many months and all tests Samsung at last finished up and came up with the reason.


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We have started feeding the birds in the forest, as the weather is now colder. This means that the early bird catches a seed or two, before our red squirrels wake up and feast. We are only in November and the squirrel community is already sporting very shiny coats. There might be a weight issue to be dealt with if snow does not arrive soon. Our little red neighbours are warm enough not to burn off all the calories they consume so branches are groaning where they land. I think they all attended Scout meetings when younger, so they are prepared!
The white tailed deer association around our parts seems to be doing well; we see a lot of them every morning. Deer, in general, are flighty, nervous animals but the ones visiting us must have realised that there is no need to run past our yard. Once they met our four sheep, had a nervous breakdown and had a calming nap, they were fine.
The first meetings were funny to watch. Mindy, Mandy, Molly and My plodding along, tummies round with food. Around the corner comes a sleek, slender and much bigger animal. Our four M's backing away slowly, heads down, while the deer stands frozen to the spot. "I've never seen four balls on legs before and reversing ones at that", the dear must have exclaimed. Then it shot off into the forest faster than anything should be going in such tricky terrain... But word spread about our four woolly balls being friendly so now we have regular visits from the deer population. And they keep our sheep from wandering into the farmer's fields.
Elks pop in too. They are much bigger animals and clearly more smelly creatures, according to the four M's. When Mindy and her friends moved to us she informed us that they would be explorers. Mindy would lead them and they would be brave creatures of the world. So off they plodded, on their merry way to our postbox. This made me a bit apprehensive, as cars go past on that road, some with considerable speed. So I followed the brave ones.
They did well at first. All in a row, head to tail, keeping up a brisk pace and clearly enjoying themselves. By the last bend in the road, just minutes from their goal, it all went wrong. Mindy started sniffing and at the same time a huge elk stepped out in front of them. Never have I seen sheep move so fast. Turning on the spot and shooting past me they bolted for their home. The poor elk did the same and it is impressive how agile these big animals can be.
I later asked the four explorers about their next trip but apparently they had taken early retirement. Not once have they walked all the way to the postbox and hopefully it will stay that way. Less stress all around, I think.
It's good to have slightly smelly neighbours. I hope they will all enjoy a safe, good winter with lots of food available for them, to keep them warm. The four M's leave hay out for them and that's nice. No hard feelings in our yard.
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'Hannah Montana': Miley Cyrus Writes Letter to Her Disney Channel Character 15 Years After First Episode
Miley Cyrus' life changed forever on March 24, 2006 when she starred in the first episode of Disney Channel's Hannah Montana and she honored that in a new heartfelt letter. The show featured a story about a girl who lived a double life — by day, normal girl Miley Stewart — and by night, pop princess Hannah Montana. Cyrus was immediately launched into stardom following the show's first episode, and she forged a path for a new era of Disney stars. In honor of the 15-year anniversary of the show's first episode, Cyrus wrote a two-page letter to the character that gave her the start of her career.
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Miley Cyrus honored the 'Hannah Montana' cast in her open letter
Cyrus' letter to Hannah Montana was written on stationary that looks like it came from the blonde-haired pop star herself. The letter is dated March 24, 2021, emphasizing that it was written 15 years after the first episode of the show.
In the letter, Cyrus talked about some moments between her and the other people in the cast throughout the years and how close they became.
"I gained so many friends over the 6 years spent on set," she wrote. "Emily Osment, Mitchel Musso, and Jason Earles became my family. I was seeing them more than my own." Of course, Cyrus also saw her dad, Billy Ray Cyrus, who acted as her on-screen father as well.
"Not a day goes by I forget where I came from," Cyrus said. "A building in Burbank, California with a room full of people with the power to fulfill my destiny. And that they did. They gave me you. The greatest gift a girl could ask for."
Miley Cyrus' letter included a song from the Disney Channel show
RELATED: 'Hannah Montana': Why Miley Cyrus Made 'A Characterized Version' of Herself Just Like Miley Stewart
Cyrus also spoke about one of the songs she sang as her character in the last season: "Wherever I Go."
"The final episode was appropriately titled, "Wherever I Go,'" the star expressed. "After a final song by the teen pop sensation herself. You. Me? Hannah Montana."
Cyrus discussed how the lyrics of the song rang true to her situation in 2011 leaving the show she worked on for so many years.
She commented: "The first verse sings, 'Everything is about to change. A chapter ending but the story's only just begun. A page is turning for everyone."
The star further drove home the parallel of the song with her life at the time: "And closes on a soaring chorus, belting, 'We might be apart but I hope you always know, you'll be with me wherever I go."
She continued, "Hannah, I hope you hear me and believe those words are true. You have all my love and [utmost] gratitude. Breathing life into you for those 6 years was an honor. I am indebted not only to you Hannah, but any and everyone who believed in me from the beginning. You have all my loyalty and deepest appreciation until the end. With all sincerity I say THANK YOU!"
Miley Cyrus admitted in the letter she's similar to her character
Dear @HannahMontana, I still love you 15 years later. #HMForever pic.twitter.com/TBqZd5aOKh
— Miley Ray Cyrus (@MileyCyrus) March 24, 2021
The Disney Channel star also weighed in on how similar she felt her and her character were.
"Although you are considered to be an 'alter ego,' in reality, there was a time in my life when you held more of my identity in your glovette than I did in my bare hands," she said. "We had an equal exchange in which you provided a superlative amount of fame in return for the anonymity I could gift to you."
"You were like a rocket that flew me to the moon and never brought me down," Cyrus wrote.
The full two-page letter can be viewed on Cyrus' Twitter and Instagram accounts, as well as an official Hannah Montana account on both platforms. Now that we have this beautifully-written sentiment to the show, we just have one question: When's the reunion show?


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WYNNE, AR (WMC-TV) – Authorities near Bremerton, Washington arrested a man in connection with the beating death of a woman last weekend inside a Cross County church.
U.S. Marshals arrested Rene Patrick Bourassa, Jr, 34, in Bremerton late Thursday afternoon. According to Bill Sadler of the Arkansas State Police, Bourassa was driving the Mercury Marquis that belonged to the murder victim, Lillian Wilson.
Authorities have searching for a suspect – and Wilson's car – for much of the week.
Authorities said the body of 80-year-old Lillian Wilson was found Sunday in the Central Methodist Church in the community of Hamlin near Wynne in eastern Arkansas. State police said Wednesday her car had been spotted in Missouri and Washington state.
Cross County Sheriff's deputies stopped at businesses in Hamlin, Arkansas, dropping off pictures of Bourassa.
"Just asking if we'd seen him before," said store clerk Terri Revell.
Revell said she had never seen Bourassa before but put the pictures of him on the counter where anyone who comes in the store will see him.
Helen Kennon, another store owner, said investigators said they have reason to believe Bourassa has been in Arkansas for about three months. Investigators knew they had a good lead when they saw a surveillance video picture of Bourassa at a gas pump a few miles from where Wilson was murdered.
"They came in and checked our video and they see it on the video," Kennon said.
Bourassa was standing next to Wilson's car.
Investigators in Bourassa's home state of Washington started looking for him after a tip that Wilson's credit card was used there earlier this week.
"As a result of the leads, authorities in Washington state have recovered Lillian Wilson's vehicle in a traffic stop at approximately 4:30 our time," said Cross County Sheriff J.R. Smith.
Bourassa was driving Wilson's car. He is in custody in Washington.
Two investigators from Cross County were on their way to Washington Thursday night. They hope to get more information from Bourassa about why he was in the are and for how long. They hope to find out what, if any connection he had to Wilson.


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Carnival Cruise Line brings nearly 400,000 guests to Jamaica annually Loop Jamaica
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Carnival Corporation senior vice-president for Government and Destinations Affairs, Marie McKenzie, says the company remains committed to maintaining Jamaica as a permanent destination on its cruise itinerary.
McKenzie notes that the island's geographic proximity to the United States (US) makes it very appealing and attractive to visitors, adding that brand Jamaica has become so marketable that it is now difficult to identify any other comparable Caribbean destination.
She was speaking with JIS News following the just-concluded Invest Jamaica 2022 conference at the Montego Bay Convention Centre in St. James.
McKenzie said the fundamental strategy underlining the Carnival Cruise Line brand, which sources out of the US, is to position its vessels in home ports throughout that country, which allow at least 50 per cent of their guests "to drive and board a ship".
"So, because of that, Jamaica is nicely positioned geographically for our itineraries. We find the island appealing in that sense. That makes it easy for us to really sell Jamaica. And as it relates to the future of Jamaica, I can tell you that we are not leaving Jamaica. We are looking at ways to further expand," she added.
McKenzie indicated that Carnival intends to strengthen the partnership it forged with the Caribbean Maritime University in 2019.
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She advised that the cruise company is actively working on hiring more Jamaicans "and not just in hotel jobs but also some of our technical engineering jobs".
"This is why we like to partner with the CMU… where we can find workers in different fields. So, when I think of the future of Jamaica… you are not only nicely placed on the map, but you are also an easy sell," she added.
Meanwhile, McKenzie said that some of Carnival's biggest and finest fleets are already committed to making calls at Jamaica's ports throughout the 2022/23 cruise-shipping season, adding that the company remains impressed with the substantial amount of infrastructural work that has been undertaken in the resort towns and which allows "for further development and product experiences".
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Since embarking on its first cruise in 1972, Carnival has been calling on Jamaica and, today, brings an average of nearly 400,000 guests to the island annually.
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But for more than two years the island's main reservoir, the Potswork Dam, has been dry.
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The Managing Director of Publica, David Neudegg, will stand down from his role after 11 years driving a pioneering shared services programme across four councils in Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire.
Mr Neudegg was appointed Chief Executive for West Oxfordshire District Council in January 2007, and in September 2008 became one of only six shared chief executives in the country when appointed to the same role in Cotswold District Council.
He continued to break new ground in 2014 when he proposed one of the most radical approaches to local government collaboration; the 2020 Partnership. This comprised Cheltenham Borough Council, and Cotswold, Forest of Dean and West Oxfordshire District Councils and subsequently evolved into the jointly owned company, Publica, with David appointed as Managing Director in 2017.
This partnership approach has protected and improved service delivery and saved taxpayers money during a period of austerity for local government. As importantly, the enlarged organisation offers greater career opportunities for the employees, more flexible pay and working arrangements, and greater resilience and expertise for each Council.
Mr Neudegg said: "I have spent 37 years in local government with one objective at the forefront of my thinking; to make local government services work as well as they can for the benefit of customers and residents. I'm very proud of our achievements in my time serving the partnership but now that Publica is established and all the expected financial and other benefits of the business case have been delivered, I feel it is an appropriate time to pass the baton to someone new.
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It seems that it has been reveled as to what Kurt Angle will be doing after he gets inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame during WrestleMania weekend. It was announced that the future WWE Hall of Famer will be making an appearance on both Raw and Smackdown after WrestleMania. He should have a major presence on whatever brand he ends staying on and here is what they should do.
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In regards to Smackdown, there is one obvious direction for the WWE to go with Kurt Angle. He should become the manager to Jason Jordan and Chad Gable, who are the team of America Alpha. I am not the first one who thought of this idea, but when you think about the idea, it makes perfect and logical sense. During Kurt Angle's first run with the company that went from 1998 until 2006, he formed a stable with two guys who act like Jordan and Gable. The two wrestlers who he was paired with were Charlie Haas and Shelton Benjamin, they were known as "The World's Greatest Tag Team."
Since Jordan and Gable have been on the main roster, there has been a lot of comparisons to Haas and Benjamin, so bringing in Kurt Angle would make a ton of sense. On the other hand, if he were to stay on RAW, then the best option for him is to replace Mick Foley as the Raw GM. Over the last few weeks, there have been seeds planted to Mick Foley being relieved of his general manager duties as it is known that he is going to be having hip surgery. Either way, it will be fun to have Kurt Angle back in the WWE and depending on what brand he goes to, they can get a major boost by his presence.
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Huge Update Inbound for LOTR LCG on Steam!
By TheWiseGuy, October 17, 2018 in The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game
TheWiseGuy 283
Edited October 17, 2018 by TheWiseGuy
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NathanH 307
Something had to change, since they'd wandered into a system that made it hard to find anything to spend money on.
30 minutes ago, NathanH said:
Yah I didn't find anything too pricy but I also bought in and had ample valor points. I think if you didn't buy in and just played as a free-to-play player it may have not felt very F2P at all. At least now people are making fewer purchases for more content.
Hannibal_pjv 155
I like these changes. The Pathfinder adventures cards game did run to serious economical problems because people were playing it without paying a dim... And the development of the game ended too early because it was not sensible to make new content to it (without getting development money back). They did try to change the economy mode later, but it was too late for that.
Now FFG at least know that they have steady income with each expansion. (If the game is popular enough) Also many country seeks and destroys games that has loot box systems... So putting on the market new game with that system would just lead to attacks by government official and lawyers. So more likely than not they would have had to change the economy mode in anyway sooner or later. So it is better to do before the real release.
In competitive environment you have to spent money, so that you don't lose to players that have all the new cards and you don't. In coop, you can easily play without ever using any money, because it does not matter if other players have better cards. You will get them sooner or later. Sometimes many year later. In competitive card game it would have been real pain, to loose all the time to opponents that does have those new cards, so there is a pressing reason to sink money to the game. And the game does not live a long if it does not make profits to the developers. You have to play salaries, earn something to the share holders and so on. Now there is change to that.
Edheliad 145
Can't see the game lasting. The number of complete revisions they've already gone through is frightening.
3 minutes ago, Edheliad said:
I mean it's in beta... Not even out yet. It's the best time to make changes like this
donkler 199
I think it is a fun game, and I'm glad they are making these changes to steer it away from a freemium game with microtransactions. It will definitely make more sense this way to call it a Living Card Game similar to the physical editions. With it coming out on Switch it seems like they could easily just sell it for $30 or $40 and people would buy it based on the license alone.
Gandalf_ 60
Do you think that the digital game will be good for the tabletop long term?
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2 hours ago, Edheliad said:
Eh, it's early access. Revisions are what that period is for.
1 hour ago, Gandalf_ said:
I really don't know. The digital game will probably draw attention to it, and I highly doubt it to steal players from the card game. That said, it will add confusion, and draw frustration from some.
8 hours ago, Gandalf_ said:
Hard to say... it is so different that it is almost completely different game. If player goes from tabletop to it, he is completely lost for a while. Same with moving from digital to tabletop. Everything you learn in digital is done completely different way in the tabletop version.
there was/is huge outrage in the Steam about how bad the digital is. Expect to see huge outrage in here a Little bit later when people from digital come to here and tell why the tabletop is so awfull compared to digital
in reality these two does not impact each other. The tabletop can Outlive the digital or vice versa. Maybe we will get Lotr 2.0 that has same rules as digital version some day who knows... but all in all They Are so different that They don`t touch each other in anyway except use same graphics.
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John Constantine 949
Steam player counts don't look optimistic.
13 hours ago, TheWiseGuy said:
The best time would have been the design stage. Or maybe in alpha or private beta. Not months after people have already spent a decent amount of money on the product. It's "out" in every meaningful sense.
1 hour ago, Edheliad said:
This is a private beta haha. You can only enter of you pay. I'm just saying it would be worse if it was full release and they were making big changes.
2 minutes ago, TheWiseGuy said:
It's early access. Beta's, especially private ones, don't usually charge for playing but send out limited amounts of invites instead.
Calvadur 161
Imo this is the fatal flaw in the understanding of AE. If everyone is allowed access for a (smaller or larger) fee it feels like a full release. No matter how many info boxes might pop up. And if the game doesn't live up to the expectations, improves or doesn't even have a good communication between fans and developers it is doomed (most likely).
But that's not the intention of AE. Developers want feed back (and finical security), because some stuff is best checked by many people. Stuff like the monetisation. For me their initial plan sounded perfectly fine (even though I wasn't happy with some details) and I am sure they were happy with their idea, too. However it seems it didn't work out so it had to change. More or less exactly what you want from AE. This isn't "Oh no they didn't even had that figuered out, game is dead", it's "hey they noticed something they/the community aren't happy with and try to change it for the better". The game is IN development right now. Not just for content. Technical issues and yes even fundamental design decisions are tested and subject to change.
How should the monetisation have been tested "in alpha" or "private beta". Most likely the shop wasn't even working at this point. No way you could have tested if thousands of people would invest enough money with the planned system, so you needed a public test. With real people, having the option to spend their money.
This got a little longer than expected and maybe reads like a rage, but for all the disappointments that happend with AE, I hate to read that decisions like this one are a bad thing during AE, shouldn't happen or that AE is a meaningful release (a I said: for me the greatest misconception the gaming-community can't get rid of) as FFG, in my oppinion, are doing a great job with the AE (giving weekly updates, streaming, patching). This is independant from the success of the game. The core idea is set and they try to optimise it. If the game fails (low sales, no players etc.) so be it. Many "great games" never were a success or even got studios closed. So just because your game may fail, doesn't mean the development process failed too.
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1 hour ago, TheWiseGuy said:
I'm just saying it would be worse if it was full release and they were making big changes.
Haha, that would be a nightmare. At that point most companies would release a second edition.
2 hours ago, TheWiseGuy said:
The private betas I'm involved in are invite-only and involve signing NDAs. This is a public beta period. Anyone with a credit card can participate.
Edited October 19, 2018 by Edheliad
ColinEdwards 48
Getting rid of the gambling aspects (the palantir) makes sense; not only does it not feel like an LCG, it would open them up to a lot of potential regulation.
Yepesnopes 580
On 10/19/2018 at 1:59 AM, Wandalf the Gizzard said:
I really don't know. The digital game will probably draw attention to it, and I highly doubt it to steal players from the card game.
Players I don't know, but the forum space it does steal...
BigKahuna 688
This is a great move in my opinion, 50% of the reason that I haven't got involved in this digital version of the game was because it had the micro-transaction / loot crate stank on it and I just can't be bothered with business models like that. Besides, the vast majority of games with that model fail miserably so I'm not really sure why the industry continues to try this. It works.. sometimes... that is not a great track record to base your game on. I'm not suprised they are changing it and I definitely support the change. That said I think it will backfire on them horribly.
The issue here is that the LCG community, aka, the people who play Lord of the Rings the Living Card game are the target audience here and they have already largely rejected this Lord of the Rings the Hearthstone clone game concept and on steam the only people who are going to try playing it are the ones who can do it for free. You stick a 30 dollar price tag on this thing and the general gaming community won't give it a second look.
That said the other 50% of the reason I haven't tried this game and probably never will is that I don't understand the point of creating a card game based on a successful card game, but then changing the gameplay to be something completely different related only by the art work used. Look, I'm a fan of Lord of the Rings the Living Card game... its the game I want to play, if your going to make a digital version of the game and you want me to buy it,.. do that.. make a digital version of THAT game... don't make a "Lord of the Rings The Living Card Hearthstone". If I want to play Hearthstone... I will play Hearthstone.
I just don't get it, who is doing marketing research over there? This is a somber, happy community that loves Lord of the Rings the Living Card game... just bloody make it for us and I will mail you my credit card, but ... whatever this game is.. its not Lord of the Rings the LCG on a computer... so hard pass until that is addressed.
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Yeah it's a rushed and poorly implemented idea. The UI looks bad (reminds me of HearthStone a lot) and the gameplay doesn't interest me knowing that there is a more complex and strategic version of that game. It would be cool if they just made a 1:1 client where you can upload your physical cards via some barcode in the product to also have the online multiplayer experience but what they are currently doing is a no no from me..
1 hour ago, BigKahuna said:
It's an improved 2.0 version of the game.
The game is going to be more microtransaction-based than before, now that valor won't be used to buy most new content. They're just dropping the soft loot crate mechanic where you earned free crates constantly (and couldn't buy them with real money).
Buhallin 4,420
The two views here are not mutually exclusive.
You can applaud their willingness to change based on feedback while still faulting them for the initial lack of vision. The original design was painfully unoriginal - from the visual design to the gameplay changes to the monetization model, it was little more than copying a bunch of other games. Recognition of the limitations of that is good, but it doesn't make the original design decisions any less bad.
Personally, the changes have me willing to buy into the game. Lump purchases with a set amount of gameplay is a lot more appealing to me than having to grind the same scenarios every day to fill my collection. My only concern at this point is whether there will be enough content to justify the cost. Designs like they started with cover for a lack of content by giving you a monetary motivation to play it repeatedly. Take that away, is there enough to make it worth the purchase cost? Remains to be seen, IMHO, but I'm at least interested now.
On 10/23/2018 at 3:35 AM, Edheliad said:
You mean compared to the physical game? Uhm... no, no it's not. At all. At best it's an entirely different game.
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11 hours ago, Buhallin said:
I assumed he meant 2.0 of the online version. The online version improves absolutely nothing in any way shape the paper version. It's hallowed out, empty shell of a game right now. There is some potential for improvement here but I think it would require an overhaul the developer/publisher will not want to invest it so I don't think this game has much of a future. It's clear that they have realized this at this point and are probably just hoping to cut it's losses. After all, if it was successful, they wouldn't be making alterations like this. I just don't think what they are doing right now is going to be enough to shift the opinion of this community nor enough to capture the PC gamers on steam. Card games in general don't do particularly well on Steam, you can count on one hand the amount of successful ones that didn't insta die over the last decade and there have been a metric ton of them.
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The Rockford IceHogs established their IceHogs Charitable Foundation on March 14, 2006. The team takes pride in giving back and being a staple in the Rockford community.
The blueprint for the IceHogs Charitable Foundation was laid out by former IceHogs Team President Ryan Washatka and owners Dr. Kris Tumilowicz and Craig Drecktrah. The Northern Illinois Community Foundation helps manage the IceHogs Charitable Foundation.
Since the IceHogs inception in 1999, the team has prided itself in giving back to the community. In 20 seasons, the IceHogs have contributed nearly $1.5 million to the Rock River Valley.
The largest fundraiser held by the IceHogs is an annual Jersey Auction held out on the ice following a game. The jersey auction alone has raised well over $1 million dollars over the course of 20 auctions. Themes for the auction have ranged from Elvis (2001) to Hammysauraus Rex (2007) and a tribute to the Burpee Museums Jane the Dinosaur to a jersey designed by Rockford native and Cheap Trick guitarist Rick Nielsen (2003).
Beneficiaries in the past have included The Autism Program, Special Olympics, March of Dimes, Muscular Dystrophy Association, Boys and Girls Clubs of Rockford, Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts of America, Jr. IceHogs hockey program, the Bryan and Amanda Bickell Foundation and most recently the Greg Lindmark Foundation.
All proceeds from every IceHogs fundraiser have been poured back into the Rockford community to benefit local charities, kids and families in need. Below is a list of charitable initiatives that the IceHogs currently peruse:
Annual Live Jersey Auction
The IceHogs signature charity fundraiser is the organization's annual live Jersey Auction. A tradition which began during the IceHogs inaugural season in 1999-2000, towards the end of each regular season the team wears special jerseys that get auctioned off live following the game. Each jersey them is a different depiction of the IceHogs' mascot Hammy, and themes have ranged from St. Patrick's Day Hammy to Hammysaurus Rex to First Responder Hammy.
In 21 auctions, the IceHogs and their generous fans have raised over one million dollars for local charities. Last season, the main benefactor was Greg Lindmark Foundation. Over the past 20 years, not for profit organizations such as The Bryan and Amanda Bickell Foundation, The Autism Program, Boys Scouts and Girl Scouts, Big Brothers and Big Sisters, March of Dimes, MDA, Jr. IceHogs and more have received funds through the IceHogs Annual Jersey Auction.
One of the IceHogs most popular games each season is the Annual Hockey Fights Cancer game. The organization began the initiative on January 29, 2010 dying the BMO Harris Bank Center ice pink. On November 23, 2018, the IceHogs joined the joint NHL and NHL Player's Association initiative of Hockey Fights Cancer. The IceHogs honor and recognize those whose lives have been impacted by cancer. Each year now, the jerseys worn during the Hockey Fights Cancer game are auctioned off via a blind silent auction with proceeds benefiting local health initiatives. Click here for more information.
Autism Awareness Night
One of the IceHogs most popular games each season is the Annual Autism Awareness game. The organization began the initiative on March 30, 2013. The Hogs don specialty jerseys for the contest that pay tribute to autism awareness, which in-turn will be auctioned off with proceeds benefitting the Autism Program of Easterseals. Also, fans will have the opportunity to purchase a variety of "Mystery Pucks" that feature autographs from Rockford IceHogs players as well as select members of the Chicago Blackhawks. Click here for more information.
Each summer and school year, the IceHogs partner with several area libraries and schools for the "IceHogs Reading Program." Kids who participate receive a free IceHogs ticket voucher good for the upcoming season. This past summer, over 30 libraries and 19 schools, ranging from Freeport, Ill. to Walworth, Wis., participated in the reading program as the IceHogs reached over 15,000 local kids. Click here for more information.
Bowl-A-Thon
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Teddy Bear Toss
Each season around the holidays, the IceHogs host the Teddy Bear Toss. Fans are invited to being new stuffed animals to the select game and when the IceHogs score their first goal, fans toss the stuffed animals onto the ice. The stuffed animals are then collected and distributed throughout the community to children of need to help brighten their holiday season. There are over 20 organizations that receive the stuffed animals including hospitals, Toys For Tots, Salvation Army, Motherhouse Crisis Nursery and many others. IceHogs players and staff help deliver the stuffed animals. Click here for more information.
Jr. IceHogs Youth Hockey Program
On August 20, 2003, the IceHogs partnered with the Rockford Park District to form the Jr. IceHogs Youth Hockey Program. The goal of the program was to increase participation in youth hockey in the area. IceHogs players and coaches make regular visits to Jr. IceHogs the importance of practices, helping teach the players fundamentals and having fun playing hockey. Click here for more information.


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A correspondent, "D.X." writes as follows: "If people are to be interested in radio, then the local station will have to be sharpened up a bit, so that it can be cut out at will, instead of coming in all over the dials, as is now the case. It is done in other countries, so why cannot New Zealand do it with the radio expert who supervised the installing of the apparatus, which is supposed to be the last word in transmitting gear? Had we not had Australia to fall back on during our very long wait for the big New Zealand stations to start, there would not be so many sets in operation here to-day; and now that we have one of these stations in operation, why allow it to cut out those Aussie stations which have helped us so in the past? In the first place, it is hardly a compliment to Australia; and in the second place, if Australia can be tuned in while our local station is operating, it will be a further inducement for people to buy sets, and will thus be to the benefit of New Zealand broadcasting."
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Alan Weyer's telling stories in the City of Saints, writes Chris Harvie.
We passed the Big Pineapple but we didn't linger. I made a note that it was 16.7m high, and therefore 0.7m taller than its paltry Australian equivalent, and we moved on in search of a pub. At the Bathurst Arms, I scribbled that, where the lawn should have been, they were apparently watering the tables in the hope that they might grow and seat more clients. I wrote about the people's dry, spindly legs and a dry, spindly garden.
I noted that there were dream catchers hanging from the trees and raddled, tanned hippies hanging in hammocks. I think the thick, blue haze hanging on the air had begun to seep into my lungs and affect my balance. The fairy lights began to twinkle in the daylight.
But that was lunchtime. From our early afternoon arrival in Grahamstown onwards, I was so enthralled that I took no more notes. The mist cleared. The mind focused. This was Settler Country. And we were here to learn.
Fearsome Xhosa chieftains, ancient Khoi-Khoi customs, baffled British officers, priests, prophets, colonials and Boet (or was it Swaer? I had never seen a show by comedy duo Boet 'n Swaer, so I didn't know which one Alan Weyer was, which may have helped).
Whoever he is on the TV and in the stage shows, he is the opposite at home in the Eastern Cape, tying up the mystical and mythical threads that run deep in the region and bind all South Africans in this most inclusive and intriguing part of our shared history.
It is 1819. The Battle of Grahamstown. A crucial engagement between British forces and the amaXhosa, whose legendary leader Makana regarded by many as the founder of Black Consciousness employs the 'horns of the buffalo' formation to surround the British and colonial forces, a full 60 years before it was used by the amaZulu to such devastating effect at the Battle of Isandlwana. The British squeezed a win at Grahamstown, but not an easy one. The Xhosa casualties were horrific.
Compelling yet impartial, Weyer's voice rises and falls with the fortunes of both sides.
Around him in deck chairs, armed only with mineral water, perch 15 engrossed souls. He has given us a history of our land going back thousands of years further than our school education and now we begin to see ourselves for what we are: a remarkable people born of a tempestuous history. Whoever says history is in the past hasn't heard Alan Weyer.
We stand and look out over one of the country's most iconic cities, oblivious to the wind that's howling on the mountaintops and the distant smouldering veld fires.
Instead we can all but hear the rattle of the guns and the shouts of the dying and injured.
A year after that battle and as a result of lessons learned here, the 1820 Settlers arrived in their droves to bolster the numbers. It was not going to be possible for the British to keep the amaXhosa at bay forever.
Weyer concludes: "The ongoing convergence of different cultures, African and European, centred on the Fish River, defined today's South Africa. The Battle of Grahamstown may not have been the biggest or the bloodiest of clashes but it was probably the most pivotal. Had Makana succeeded he might just have changed the course of history completely."
A little later, after a revitalising guzzle in a bathroom the size of my house, I lay back in an armchair in the elegant sitting-room-cum-library at Grahamstown's No 7 Worcester Street Guest House, from which Weyer frequently operates. A glass of wine washed away the Zuurveld dust while he made historical links with our current political situation, for the benefit of the newly-converted.
The dinner menu circulated with a promise of fine steak, mashed potatoes and delicious- sounding sauces but we were all rooted to the cushions. Here in the City of Saints we were celebrating our country, listening to the spirits of the past and drinking to the spirit of the future.
We didn't need a dream catcher to capture that vision; we had Boet (or was it Swaer?) to do it for us.
He was once a pineapple farmer but his pineapples never grew to 16.7m. In fact, they didn't really grow to his liking at all, so he started telling stories instead.
Tour rates: The half day Spirits of the Past tour is R895. The full day, which includes lunch in Bathurst, is R1250.
Accommodation: No 7 Worcester St, Grahamstown. R895 per person sharing, bed and breakfast (packages also available). Tour contacts: Phone 046-622-7896; e-mailinfo@spiritsofthepast.co.za or visit www.spiritsofthepast.co.za. Guesthouse contacts: Phone 046-622-2843; e-mail info@worcesterstreet.co.za or visit www.worcesterstreet.co.za.
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Historical Football Grounds in Wigan and District
The major grounds
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The following couple of pages pinpoint the location of some of the football grounds around Wigan, all of which are no longer in use.
"The Major Grounds" deals with five grounds used while football was in its infancy before the First World War, some little more than a field, some shared with other sports.
"The Lesser Known Ones" looks at the grounds used by smaller teams at the grass roots of the sport.
If you know of any grounds missed, drop into Facebook, search for The Boulevard of Broken Dreams and ask for Bert, the only criteria being that the venue must have existed before 1930.
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Saturday, July 20, 2019 12:00 AM
WAUPACA, Wis. — Waupaca Foundry Inc., a Hitachi Metals company, held a ribbon cutting for the new Ironwood facility on Friday in Ironwood, Mich.
The facility, located at 1760 Liberty St., features 50,000 square feet of manufacturing space and will be used to clean and finish iron castings produced at its Marinette and Waupaca plants.
The facility represents an investment of $4.3 million and will create 61 new jobs. As a result of the expansion, Waupaca Foundry was awarded a $1.2 million Michigan Business Development Program performance-based grant. Waupaca Foundry employs 4,500 employees at seven locations throughout the United States.
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Trump to Woodward: "Nothing more could have been done" on coronavirus
Sep. 14, 2020 12:04AM EST
Journalist Bob Woodward opened up to CBS' News' "60 Minutes" in an interview airing Sunday of the moment in August when President Trump told him, "nothing more could have been done" on the coronavirus.
Driving the news: Trump made the comments, recorded by Woodward and broadcast by CBS, to the "Rage" author during one of their final interviews as the death toll from COVID-19 was surging. "Does he remember what he told me, back in February, about it's more deadly than the flu?" Woodward repeated after the audio clip played.
"I mean it almost took my breath away, that there was such certainty, when he was absolutely wrong about the issue that defines the position of this country right now."
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Director appointed for Los Alamos Laboratory
By Rick Malaspina
UC Office of the President
Physicist John C. Browne was appointed director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory last week by the University of California, which manages the New Mexico facility for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
Acting on the recommendation of UC President Richard C. Atkinson, the UC Board of Regents named Browne to the post, effective Nov. 3, in a special meeting conducted by teleconference. The DOE has concurred with the appointment.
Browne, 55, has held positions of scientific and administrative leadership at the laboratory for 18 years. He will be the laboratory's sixth director, succeeding Siegfried S. Hecker, who had planned to step down this month after nearly 12 years in the position. Hecker has agreed to stay on until the effective date of Browne's appointment to provide for an efficient transition.
"John Browne is a distinguished and widely respected scientist, an internationally recognized expert in neutron science, and a well-seasoned manager with a wealth of experience in the laboratory's critically important national security mission and its various programs," Atkinson said.
"He will bring to this position a strong commitment to continue the laboratory's superb scientific programs and to work with the university and the Department of Energy to strengthen the laboratory's relationships with its many constituent groups in northern New Mexico."
Browne said, "It is a great challenge to lead the laboratory at this important point in its history. Maintaining the safety, security, and reliability of the nation's nuclear stockpile under a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty will be a tough scientific and managerial undertaking, but I know the people at Los Alamos are up to the task.
"I also intend to focus on community relationships--including economic development--and safe and environmentally conscious operations," Browne added. "One of my goals is to engender pride in Los Alamos as a national scientific resource, as an employer, and as a neighbor."
Browne emerged as the first choice for laboratory director after an exhaustive national search by an advisory committee of Regents, scientists, and administrators. The committee consulted with a broad range of officials representing the DOE and the U.S. Department of Defense as well as leaders in the scientific and academic community. The search process also included meetings by the president and the advisory committee to hear from laboratory employees and representatives of key laboratory constituent groups.
As director, Browne will report to the UC president and have responsibility for the overall administrative and programmatic management of the laboratory. The director also must certify annually to the president of the United States the safety, security, and effectiveness of the nuclear weapons designed by the Los Alamos laboratory.
Managed by UC since its inception in 1943, the laboratory has grown over the years to become one of the world's foremost centers of multidisciplinary scientific and technological research and development. It has a UC workforce of about 7,000 scientists, engineers, and technical and support staff, about 3,000 subcontractor employees, and an annual federally funded operating budget of about $1.1 billion.
Browne currently is responsible for the scientific and operational management of the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE), one of the nation's premier facilities for neutron science research.
Browne joined the laboratory in 1979 after nine years in the physics program at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, also managed by UC for the federal government.
At Los Alamos, Browne served in a succession of positions, including physics division leader and associate laboratory director in charge of several different areas from 1984 through 1992. As associate director for experimental physics, he was responsible for four technical divisions and programs in nuclear physics, magnetic fusion, and solid state physics.
Serving as associate director for research, he had responsibility for six technical divisions. He also was associate director for defense research and applications, overseeing four technical divisions and Department of Defense programs, as well as associate director for computational and informational sciences, a position responsible for five divisions and programmatic oversight of the laboratory's high-performance computing initiative, intelligence programs, and nonproliferation programs.
Browne has served on numerous laboratory programmatic oversight committees and a variety of external scientific and professional committees. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the author of numerous professional publications.
Browne received his bachelor's degree in physics from Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA., and his Ph.D. in physics from Duke University in North Carolina.
In acting on the appointment, the Regents approved an annual salary for Browne of $230,000.


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Decline in Air Freight Volumes Bottoms Out
Monday, January 11, 2016 4:13 PM - Switzerland, Geneva
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) released data for global air freight markets showing air cargo volumes (measured in Freight Tonne Kilometers) were down 1.2% in November 2015, compared to November 2014. Total cargo volumes, however, expanded compared to October 2015, and were higher than the low point in August. This indicates that the decline in cargo demand may be bottoming out.
The negative year-on-year comparisons occurred across all regions with the exception of the Middle East. Of the major markets that together comprise more than 80% of total trade, Europe was down 2.0%, North America by 3.2%, and Asia-Pacific by 1.5%. The comparative weakness in these regions was driven largely because the performance in November 2014 was very strong. Latin American and African markets also fell, by 6.4% and 6.0% respectively. The Middle East region posted 5.4% growth.
"The freight performance in November was a mixed bag. Although the headline growth rate fell again, and the global economic outlook remains fragile, it appears that parts of Asia-Pacific are growing again and globally, export orders are looking better. In fact, the downward trend in FTK volumes appears to be bottoming out. But there is a great deal of uncertainty. The current volatility of stock markets shows how much the health of the global economy – upon which air cargo depends - remains on a knife-edge," said Tony Tyler, IATA's Director General and CEO.
Nov 2015 vs. Nov 2014
FTK Growth
AFTK Growth
FLF (*)
Total Market
YTD 2015 vs. YTD 2014
FTK: Freight Tonne Kilometers measures actual freight traffic
AFTK: Available Freight Tonne Kilometers measures available total freight capacity
FLF: Freight Load Factor is % of AFTKs used
Regional analysis in detail
Asia-Pacific carriers saw a slight fall in FTKs of 1.5% in November compared to November 2014, and capacity expanded 3.2%. Compared to October, volumes expanded by a strong 1.9%. Over recent months, the declining trend in volumes has halted. Better demand in advanced economies is driving export growth in some countries, particularly in Japan.
European carriers reported weaker demand in November, down 2.0% compared to a year ago, and capacity rose 2.2%. Comparing November to October, the trend was flat, but there are indications that stronger manufacturing and export orders could support air freight demand in the coming months.
North American airlines experienced a fall of 3.2% year-on-year and capacity grew 5.8%. The market remains hard to read. A 0.4% expansion compared to October indicates that air cargo could be recovering. But export indicators are poor, making it hard to be optimistic for the coming months.
Middle Eastern carriers saw demand expand by 5.4%, and capacity rise 9.2%. Although the Middle East led the way as the only market showing positive growth, the rate fell to less than half the 11.9% average growth for the year-to-date. Falls in the oil price are impacting some economies in the region.
Latin American airlines reported a decline in demand of 6.4% year-on-year, and capacity expanded 1.9%. Few positive signals emerged from the markets in this region, with economic and political conditions in Brazil particularly weak. The comparison with October also showed a 1.4% contraction and air cargo demand appears to be mirroring weaker consumer confidence.
African carriers experienced a fall in demand of 6.0%, and capacity rose by 6.6%. Africa remains one of only three regions (with Asia-Pacific and Middle East) to record positive year-to-date growth for 2015. Demand is holding up despite the underperformance of Nigeria and South Africa.
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