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Steve Wisbey is 51 years old, married with 3 children and lives in a Kent village called St. Margaret's Bay. A graduate in mechanical engineering, Steve runs a business, that designs bomb disposal equipment started by his grandfather in 1946. Specialising in complex products such as robots, his products are exported to some of the most hostile locations such as Iraq and Afghanistan. Through his work, he travels the world over, engaging in many diverse cultures and works with fascinating people, people who walk towards unexploded bombs, not away from them.
Steve loves to make things, and that doesn't just mean things that defuse bombs. One of his passions is cooking and on his trips around the world brings home recipes to cook for his family. His children are very gastronomic as a result, but the real benefit he says is the awareness of other cultures.
Steve isn't a typical engineer because he also loves the arts, his favourite being fringe theatre. Actually, he met his wife at the Edinburgh fringe festival, but they also enjoy traditional plays such as Shakespeare. To Steve, the criteria is engaging live performances.
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Q: Examples of Tate cohomology rings  If $G$ is a finite group with periodic cohomology then the Tate cohomology ring can be easily computed to be the localization $\hat{H}^\ast(G,\mathbb{Z}) = H^\ast(G,\mathbb{Z})_{(z)}$ where $z$ is a unit of minimal positive degree. Examples are

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*Cyclic group:
$\hat{H}^\ast(C_n,\mathbb{Z}) = \mathbb{Z}[z,z^{-1}]/(nz), |z|=2$

*Quaternion group:
$\hat{H}^\ast(Q_{2^n},\mathbb{Z}) = \mathbb{Z}[z,z^{-1},a,b]/(2^nz, 2a,2b), |z| =4, |a| = |b| =2$

*Binary icosahedral group:
$\hat{H}^\ast(I,\mathbb{Z}) = \mathbb{Z}[z,z^{-1}]/(120z), |z|=4$
The same formular holds in mod-$p$ cohomology, if the cohomology of $G$ is $p$-periodic.
Question: Are there computations of integral or mod-$p$ Tate cohomology rings of finite groups with non-periodic cohomology in the literature ?

A: The ring structure on mod $p$ Tate cohomology can be split up into 4 parts:

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*Products $\hat{H}^n\otimes\hat{H}^m\to\hat{H}^{n+m}$ for $n,m\geq0$.  These just come from products on ordinary cohomology.

*Products $\hat{H}^n\otimes\hat{H}^m\to\hat{H}^{n+m}$ for $n\geq0$, $m<0$, and $n+m<0$.  These are given by cap products when we identify $\hat{H}^m$ with the dual of $H^{-m-1}$.

*Products $\hat{H}^n\otimes\hat{H}^m\to\hat{H}^{n+m}$ for $n\geq0$, $m<0$, and $n+m\geq 0$.

*Products $\hat{H}^n\otimes\hat{H}^m\to\hat{H}^{n+m}$ for $n,m<0$.

In fact, for most groups, all products of type 3 and 4 vanish.  This is true, for instance, if the center of a $p$-Sylow subgroup of $G$ has rank greater than 1: see this paper of Benson and Carlson (they also show that all products of type 3 vanish iff all products of type 4 vanish).  By Chouinard's theorem, this implies that for arbitrary non-periodic groups, all elements in negative mod $p$ Tate cohomology are nilpotent.

A: Bellezza's thesis is here
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~mth192/html/archive/bellezza.html

A: Antonio Bellezza's PhD thesis (Pisa, 2002) computes the ring structure of the Tate cohomology for $\mathbb{Z}/p^a\times\mathbb{Z}/p^b$, and also the mod-p Tate cohomology of $\mathbb{Z}_p^2$.  The title is Integral Duality and the Structure of Tate Cohomology Rings.
Also, there is an unpublished/unfinished paper of Weiss, found here: http://www.math.uwo.ca/~schebolu/research/Jan/tateprop.pdf  , which computes $\hat{H}^*(\mathbb{Z}_2^r,\mathbb{Z}_2)$.
And just to add to your current list (periodic groups):  $\hat{H}^*(S_3,\mathbb{Z}_3)=\Lambda[x]\otimes\mathbb{Z}_3[z,z^{-1}]$ with $|x|=3$ and $|z|=4$.

A: Artin and Tate showed in their class field theory book that a finite group has periodic mod $p$ cohomology if and only if its Sylow $p$–group is either a cyclic group or a generalised quaternion group. Swan proved later that a group has periodic cohomology for all primes if and only if it acts freely on a finite CW-complex which has the homotopy type of a sphere.

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The agenda for spectrum
Martin Cave and William Webb, authors of a new book on spectrum management, set out trends in usage and an agenda to improve spectrum use
The challenge for the regulator remains the same as always – to maximise the value of the use of radio spectrum through ensuring that the highest-value users have access to the
spectrum and that the interference between them remains controlled to an optimal level. However, the solution to this challenge is constantly changing as usage patterns change and new tools to manage users develop, often based on changing technology. Here we look at the key trends relating to spectrum usage and suggest where we think spectrum management will evolve in the coming decades.
Trends in usage
There are hundreds of different uses of the radio spectrum and trends and changes in many of these. However, where the users require relatively small amounts of spectrum, or spectrum for which there is little competition (eg. satellite use of frequencies above 20 GHz) then these have limited impact on spectrum management approaches. We discuss what we believe are some of the most important trends relating to those uses that generate the highest economic value (broadly cellular and broadcasting), those that compete for the most congested spectrum and those where innovation might be most likely to occur. The trends are not presented in any particular order.
Trend 1: Growing importance of unlicensed spectrum We are using WiFi and Bluetooth ever more. Home WiFi networks now routinely have tens of devices connected to them whereas a decade ago they might have had one or two. Monitoring devices are slowly appearing around the home, such as WiFi-connected security devices, and many more are being shown at trade shows. Other systems, such as the home energy system, may make use of a separate network within the home to connect gas and electricity meters, in-home displays, and eventually smart appliances. Out of the home we are increasingly looking to log onto WiFi hotspots wherever we find ourselves. Bluetooth accessories are proliferating, with many health- and fitness-oriented devices being developed for wearing and devices like Google Glass being tested. As this usage grows so will the possibilities of interference, while at the same time our tolerance for not being connected will fall. The use of 5 GHz spectrum will offer some relief but regulators may need to become more inclined towards making bands unlicensed than they are at present.
Trend 2: Ubiquitous connectivity will become ever more important Once connectivity is widespread then behaviours change. People make greater use of cloud servers and plan ahead less on the assumption that they can retrieve the information they need as and when it is needed. Less material is stored locally, enabling devices without hard disks. All of this makes ubiquitous connectivity ever more important, fueling a circle of change. This is perhaps less about rural coverage and more about ensuring that all of the devices that a person is carrying can connect wherever they happen to be.
Trend 3: Ever higher data rates will become less important Each new generation of mobile system (2G, 3G, 4G) has been predicated on approximately a tenfold increase in data rates compared with the previous generation. This has led to requirements for ever broader bandwidths and ever more mobile spectrum. But we are now reaching a point wheremany homes and users have more than adequate data rates for all that they could wish to achieve. It is hard to envisage why we might want yet another tenfold increase. This is causing a rethink as to whether fibre to the home is a necessary solution, and it will bring into question
It may be that the seemingly insatiable desire for spectrum for mobile usage will come to an end.
whether data rates moving towards 1 Gbps are necessary for 5G. This in turn will change the demand for spectrum for future mobile data systems. Coupled with the trend toward ever more use of WiFi it may be that the seemingly insatiable desire for spectrum for mobile usage will finally come to an end.
Trend 4: The internet of things (IoT) will grow rapidly IoT is predicted to grow from perhaps 1 billion connected devices in 2015 to over 50 billion by 2025. This rapid growth will require some new spectrum, which regulators have not yet identified, and will provide a new source of value from the radio spectrum.
Trend 5: The categorisation of usage into fixed, mobile, and broadcasting will become of less relevance At present regulators divide usage into fixed, mobile or broadcasting. But these are increasingly converging. Broadcast and mobile systems will tend to share platforms and spectrum in the future and broadcast-only solutions will increasingly be switched off.
Trends in spectrum management tools
A range of new tools will become available for spectrum management. These will include the following trends.
Trend 6: Dynamic spectrum sharing will become commonplace As white space deployments grow and sharing moves into other bands, the concept of shared opportunistic access will become more widely accepted and it will be considered normal for virtually all spectrum bands to be shared in some manner.
Trend 7: Regulators will stop predicting interference and start monitoring it The complexity of predicting what interference might occur will continue to grow while new tools will become available to rapidly fix interference where it does occur. As a result, regulators will increasingly deploy systems up to a point at which interference is observed and then set this as the licence conditions. New ways of monitoring interference will be needed to allow for real-time reporting across a range of users and uses.
Trend 8: Regulators will seek more ways to encourage innovation Regulators often aspire to stimulate innovation but rarely achieve it. Innovation is becoming ever more important in government agendas and regulators will start looking at mechanisms to provide favoured allocations for new approaches and other novel ways to encourage innovation.
Trend 9: Receiver performance will become an ever-growing issue and regulators will eventually move to control receiver performance as well as transmitter performance The performance of receivers often prevents or limits new technologies or uses in neighbouring bands. Regulators will increasingly realise that some specification of expected receiver performance is needed in order to effectively manage spectrum.
Our agenda to improve spectrum use
Throughout our book we discuss areas where current approaches to management and use of spectrum fall short. In such cases we have put forward suggestions as to how they might be improved. The five most important proposals of this kind are set out below.
1 Move to a position where (almost) all licences are shared The coexistence of increasing demand for spectrum and evidence that many valuable frequencies are underused has been one of the drivers, over the past five years, for more spectrum sharing. This process has been assisted by the development of new real-time technologies for dynamic spectrum sharing which allow multiple users to coexist. These methods have augmented earlier temporal and geographic sharing of bands and the limited use of unlicensed spectrum.
It is time for these possibilities to be reflected more fully in rights of access to spectrum by the replacement of exclusive licences by arrangements which allow access to multiple users, possibly on a hierarchical basis which gives some users priority over others. The result to be expected is much greater flexibility in use of spectrum and lower prices of access to it. This could be accomplished by a process of progressively replacing exclusive licences with less restrictive alternatives, introduced in ways which manage the associated risks. One effect might be the emergence of intermediaries which offer flexible access to multiple clients. We recommend in the future a brisk increase in the number of licences recast in this way, even if in practice some of these will continue to be exclusive.
There is mounting evidence that inefficient use of public spectrum is increasing relative to commercial spectrum. We have outlined a strategy for dealing with this but its success hangs in the balance in many countries. Public/commercial sharing of spectrum may in some countries be a more palatable means of switching spectrum to more efficient uses.
2 Link licences to interference generated rather than power transmitted Current licences are not suitable for a world where usage can be changed and bands repurposed. There have been many examples of this from the interference caused by Nextel in US public safety systems in the 1990s through to the more recent cases of LightSquared in the US and TV interference concerns in white space. The basic problem is that a licence that specifies the amount of power a transmitter is allowed to emit does not fully constrain the interference caused since this is also determined by the density of transmitters and other factors such as their height.
A better approach is to specify in the licence the interference that can be caused and then allow the licence holders to configure their transmitters in such a way that this interference level is not exceeded. Studies such as Ofcom's 'spectrum usage rights' have pioneered more suitable licence formats that achieve these objectives while being practical to implement. However existing players have generally resisted their introduction due to increased complexity and the problem that the benefits most immediately fall on the newer entrants rather than established companies. Regulators should look at the wider benefits for usage of radio spectrum rather than the needs of incumbents and adopt licences specified in interference terms as the default across all spectrum bands.
3 Manage receiver performance There are two aspects to the performance of a radio receiver – its ability to decode the wanted signal and its ability to reject unwanted or interfering signals. While the former is typically a core part of radio design the latter is more problematic. Manufacturers may not know what interfering signals will be experienced either now or in the future and have strong incentives to design the lowest cost receiver by taking a low expectation of interference.
If such poorly performing receivers are widely deployed, for example in millions of TV sets, this can cause the regulator to prevent the introduction of nearby spectrum usage that might impact these receivers, despite the fact that they are substandard. Knowing that this outcome is likely allows receiver manufacturers to design to ever lower standards resulting in a 'too big to fail' problem.
To some degree this problem is linked to licence conditions (see above) in that a clearer specification of the interference that spectrum neighbours could cause would clarify the receiver requirements. There are many issues here associated with national licensing versus global manufacturing, the role of standards bodies and more. It is clear that this is a serious problem that is progressively causing greater delays in
optimal use of spectrum and needs addressing. Regulators need to work together on a global basis perhaps through the ITU or similar bodies to ensure that receivers have appropriate specifications and that these are implemented.
There is greater scope for regional collaboration if frameworks can be found that do
4 Move away from previous ITU labels to a new categorisation Bands are currently divided into categories such as 'fixed', 'mobile', and 'broadcast' at international level and have been for nearly a century. However, the boundaries between these uses have been increasingly blurring. For example, many now view broadcast content on mobile devices, downloaded via cellular or WiFi. There are mechanisms such as 'broadcast modes' within cellular networks which allow broadcasting to be performed from those cellular networks. The labels were originally intended to facilitate interference management by placing the highest-power networks (broadcasting) into some bands and lower-power networks (mobile) into others.
But as discussed above this method of managing spectrum is suboptimal. From a management perspective it is the interference levels generated, rather than the service deployed, that is most relevant. The categorisation also tends to limit innovation by persuading users that they cannot, for example, change use to a mobile application in a band that has been categorised as broadcast, whereas in practice this particular example would likely work acceptably. A better division would be 'low', 'medium' and 'high' interference levels, ideally linked to specific limits and new licence types. The idea of reclassification should be discussed internationally by spectrum managers and others, options considered, and a new approach adopted at ITU level and cascaded down to regional and national plans.
5 Reconsider regional and global spectrum management There is greater scope for regional collaboration if appropriate frameworks can be found that do not limit innovation. Regional bodies should study their role and look for where they can add additional value. This is an issue of fundamental importance which deserves careful and disinterested study at a very high level.
Spectrum management has come on a long journey through its 110 year history. Technological developments have led to rapidly growing demand and also to innovative options for using spectrum based around sharing and reactive assignment. These developments have exposed the weaknesses of the legacy command and control approach to spectrum management. This led to the development of market-based management in the past 25 years, initially focused on auctions but later extended to secondary markets in spectrum and also to spectrum pricing.
With the notable exception of auctions, the market-based methods have not been widely applied, and have not yet delivered all of the expected gains. The world where regulators step back and allow the market to function still looks to be in the distant future. Making the best use of spectrum appears to need a mix of new technology and new regulation. The most prominent area of application of this combination presently resides in spectrum sharing, based on techniques such as dynamic spectrum access.
Other developments which have strong potential are the implementation in licences of new ways to control interference, and the extension of regulation into domains such as receiver performance.
As spectrum becomes an ever more critical component of our lives the difficulty of making such changes grows. The risk remains that cautious regulators forever remain one step behind technology and need. Our book has set out how we believe they and others can best act to put the airwaves to work for the benefit of the economy and society.
The prize is enormous.
Martin Cave is a regulatory economist with extensive telecoms and spectrum experience. He is a visiting professor at Imperial College Business School, London, and a past member of Ofcom's spectrum advisory board. William Webb has led the design of Weightless, a new standard for M2M communications. This article is adapted from their book, Spectrum Management, published by Cambridge University Press. See bit.ly/1jxxq7q
spectrum for the good of society
Policymakers and regulators now have a choice of two excellent new books about spectrum. In the last issue of Intermedia (January 2016), we reviewed
Understanding Spectrum Liberalisation, which covers the extent to which liberalisation policies have succeeded over 'command and control' models. The authors of that book say the
free market model is currently a disappointment, in not being applied widely to broadcasting, not providing enough mobile spectrum and not stimulating much trading outside the US. But while there are major constraints, there are promising options such as in spectrum sharing.
Martin Cave and William Webb cover much of the same ground in Spectrum Management – the technologies, ways of allocating spectrum, pros and cons of trading and sharing, international and political issues, and much more. But their book takes a deeper dive into economics and policy, as would be expected from Cave, who is a regulatory economist and telecoms specialist. The book has the subtitle 'Using the airwaves for maximum social and economic benefit', and is a necessary update of the author's previous Essentials of Modern Spectrum
Management, which seems like a lifetime away now back in 2007.
Throughout, the new book has an eye on the complex balancing acts needed in spectrum management, and sets out clearly what the functions of national regulators are, from determining
and changing the use of spectrum, to assigning and policing it, and conducting forward looking studies to enable allocation to adapt. They say that spectrum currently contributes about 3% to a country's GDP with 'third best practices' – and while it is not practical to get perfect efficiency, we can at least move to a 'superior second-best outcome'.
There are two primers, on technology and economic challenges, with the latter setting up the bulk of the book by noting that allocating spectrum is extremely complicated, given a large number of bands, many known and unknown issues, and demand for uses growing at variable and unpredictable rates. It is no longer possible to think
of solving allocation centrally and the authors set out the modes of access – rules-based such as public and private commons, and licence-based, and a combination of the two.
They cover ways of allocating spectrum – auctions of course, but also liberalising how licensees can use their spectrum, spectrum trading, and what they term administrative pricing, which is where the regulator sets prices and can use tools such as opportunity-cost and 'business model' pricing, the latter
'mimicking' the calculations that a company would do. The pros and cons of allocation methods are set out.
Detailed chapters on auctions and spectrum trading follow, trading being one way of sustaining market forces after
a primary allocation, but with modest success so far, and possible remedies to competition concerns are discussed.
Spectrum pricing and valuation also gets a chapter, before the book enters a third part, on emerging spectrum management approaches such as sharing, which is the 'defining feature of recent work' and the authors say there is a clear need to increase flexibility, as set out in their agenda article.
Chapters also include many examples and break-out boxes, and there are also plenty of references.
There's plenty more – on interference, the 'struggle' for the UHF band, public sector use, TV white space and so on – and a chapter on the wider economy, presenting various estimates of spectrum's economic consequences – but they say more research on mobile broadband impacts is needed.
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The UK's Meteorological Office (the Met Office) has a wealth of weather data which it has packaged into a variety of products aimed at various industry and government sectors. In 2015, the Met Office asked Green Ink to produce a brochure describing its various data products to aid in its efforts in marketing and selling this data to industrial clients.
The Met Office's data products marketing brochure.
The Met Office is the UK's state-owned weather service which has been at the forefront of global weather and climate science for more than 150 years. In addition to providing a wide range of weather forecasts and warnings, the Met Office also carries out research, including on climate science, and provides a range of products and services. The Met Office provides core weather data for a range of different purposes, from freely available public weather data to data tailored for specific industry sectors. Weather data can help businesses plan major projects, helping reduce risks and increase the efficiency of the task whether it be on land or at sea. The Met Office is located in Exeter, UK.
Green Ink has also written for and edited several of the Met Office's annual reports as well as other materials.
If you need help producing marketing collateral for technical or scientific services then contact us.


Lara's music isn't trying to take you somewhere.
It's trying to find you, down deep where you already live.
There are two kinds of music – the kind that rushes out to meet you, and the kind that invites you to come inside and sit down awhile. Lara Oshon (pronounced like 'ocean') creates the latter.
Her signature lush vocals and rhythmic piano stylings flow right through the heart, creating a transforming musical experience and igniting devoted supporters worldwide. Lara's Georgia roots and California spirit infuse her music with rich layers of tender folk, deep soul, and playful pop. Her songs emanate a warm power that draws you inward toward them, compelling you to slow down and really listen.
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I am 88 years old and I feel there is no longer a reason for me to be here on this earth. My husband died this past year and I have no family. I ask God daily to please take me. I am so lonely and I feel so worthless. Can you give me one reason why I'm here?
I am so honored that you wrote me. I too can understand getting older physically and mentally can be tiring, but I feel the older I get, the wiser I become. There is so much you can teach us, for those 88 years of yours are priceless.
Sometimes it's hard to see how beautiful you are when you have experienced the death of someone you loved so deeply like your husband. It's hard to see any purpose for living and going on without him. We all go through a grieving process when this happens. I know, it's easy to say but harder to live with each day. It is so hard to be left behind, especially when all other family members are no longer here with you either. I feel that those who are left behind have it the hardest.
The fact that you have written to me shows me that you have some question about purpose – your life purpose. Oftentimes, many of us struggle with that question at any age, but we lack the wisdom and benefits of the aging process. So, Liz, you have one up on us.
If you can think of something from your past that made you happy–grandchildren, animals, sewing, crafting, storytelling or something else, then we can try taking baby steps to see if anything can lighten your heart. For some, it is church; for others, it is nature. For still others, it is finding friends or helping at a local hospital as a volunteer for the nursery and holding babies.
You ask daily for God to take you; however, there must be a reason why God has allowed you to stay here. Perhaps it is to teach us and enlighten us with your company. There is a reason, Liz, and we—the members of the human race—need you.
Write out a daily journal and include the things that make you laugh, the things you enjoy doing whether it's cooking, sewing, walking, cleaning, driving, or just being. Sometimes it's worth going outside into nature if you're able to so you can breathe some fresh air and experience the beauty of nature (God's gift to us).
There are many of us who would love to listen to your stories.
I, like you, no longer have a family. I no longer have a grandmother, and I would do anything to be able to hear her words and to listen to her tell her stories.
You are not alone, Liz. Perhaps you can share your feelings with a friend, clergyperson or even find a support group in your area or a counselor to help you with this grieving process.
I know when I feel lonely, I turn to a Chihuahua and two other little dogs I have who give me unconditional love. I'm not sure if a pet is something that you would want to take care of now, but it is something to consider.
You have lived 88 years and I am grateful that I had the pleasure of at least writing to you and to share this time thinking about you.
Please write again. I hope this helped.


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Prometheus'22 to debut in Ljubljana
2022. October 24.
# Ljubljana, Prometheus
Prometheus'22 will premiere in Ljubljana on 15 October at the SNT Drama Ljubljana's Great Hall, directed by Gábor Tompa, and will be performed six more times between 16–22 October.
Based on the tragedy Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus, the production which is a Hungarian, Romanian, Slovenian and English co-production by the Hungarian State Theatre of Cluj, the Constanta State Theater, and SNT Drama Ljubljana, is staged as part of the Union of the Theatres of Europe's Disaster project.
The premiere in Cluj took place at the end of the 2021/2022 season, on 1 July. "It is safe to say that we have seen few better, more profound performances in Cluj theatres in recent times. A special feature is the multinational cast, who have become very well attuned to each other during the rehearsal process. The visual elements, sound effects and the music emphasise the message of the performance, and the fast-paced events engage the audience. At the same time, great actors embody the characters in the play, and the Slovenian Igor Samobor, who plays Prometheus, plays the lead role with great depth and feeling", wrote Csaba Nánó after the premiere.
The next performance will take place on Saturday 26 November at 7pm at the Interferences International Theatre Festival.
The production features Igor Samobor, Domen Novak, Eva Jesenovec (SNT Drama Ljubljana), Cătălina Mihai, Florin Aioane, Ecaterina Lupu, Mirela Pană, Dana Dumitrescu (Constanta State Theater), Gábor Viola, Áron Dimény, Tamás Kiss, Anikó Pethő, Eszter Román, Zsolt Bogdán, Andrea Vindis, Melinda Kántor (Hungarian State Theatre of Cluj).
Erwin Șimsensohn (associate director), Carmencita Brojboiu (set and costume design), Vasile Șirli (composer), Ágnes Kali (dramaturg), Ferenc Sinkó (choreographer), Radu Daniel (video artist), and Gyopár Bocskai (assistant visual designer) contributed to the production.
The production will premiere in January 2023 in Constanta, and will also take part in the Finisterra Festival in Porto in February 2023, organised by the São João National Theatre and the Union of the Theatres of Europe.
Madách 200 – The 10th Theater Olympics offers a variety of programs
Theater Olympics 2023 also commemorates the work of the famous Hungarian writer, Imre Madách, who was born 200 years ago, on January 20, 1823.
Award-winning dance performances at the 10th Theater Olympics
This time we recommend productions presented as part of the Theater Olympics by Transylvanian, Slovenian, Greek, and French companies.
The ABSTRACT International Puppet Festival is being organized for the first time
As part of the 10th Theater Olympics, the ABSTRACT International Contemporary Puppet Festival will be held in Budapest for the first time between May 6-19, 2023.
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International Water Summit (IWS) brings together over 200 technology providers, innovators and suppliers to showcase their latest products and innovations in the Middle East. Set out to drive the future of water sustainability, desalination and energy efficiency across the commercial, industrial and residential building sectors, this is the event for anyone who wants to source smart water solutions that translate directly into cost savings.
We will be exhibiting – as part of the British Pavilion – at this year's IWS conference & expo, the Middle East's pre-eminent Water industry event. We will be located in Hall 3, Stand 3125.


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Is Family Mediation really worth it?
Family mediation is where an independent, professionally trained mediator helps you and the person that you are otherwise in dispute with (be it an ex-partner, a grandparent or other person) to work out an agreement about issues such as:
Arrangements for children after separation (for example, to consider issues such as custody, contact, holiday arrangements and so on)
Child maintenance payments – for example, Child Support including but not limited to school fees and education fees
Finances (for example, what to do with your previously owned joint property, other capital assets, any savings, any pension provision not to mention how any joint or otherwise accumulated debts of the family are to be met)
Family mediation can also be used to help with the other issues that you might face, for example, your children keeping in touch with their grandparents, stepfamilies, or in-laws.
Mediation can also be helpful when arrangements you've made before need to change, particularly as your children grow up.
If you are unable to reach any agreement via mediation or by any other alternative means, the Family Court upon any application made will consider and make a final decision which ultimately you will need to stick to even if one or both of you feel unhappy about them for whatever reason.
Mediation can then help you stay in control. No-one including the mediator will make you do anything against your wishes.
The mediator will help you find a solution which works for you both and explain how you can make any agreement reached legally binding.
It is now expected that before any person makes an application to the Family Court that the parties have tried and considered mediation before you apply to a court to hear your case. The Family Court can refuse to hear your case until you have done this or adjourn the case for mediation to be attempted in cases whereby the judge takes the view that mediation may be the most suitable forum for any dispute to be resolved.
Most people who start mediation will reach an agreement without having ever to then incur the expense of going to court but clearly, mediation is not always suitable in every case.
In the case of a marriage or civil partnership ending, you will need to apply to the court for a divorce or judicial separation to do this, but you will not usually have to attend a hearing and mediation in such instances will not serve any purpose but it may prove beneficial to address any issue arising in relation to the finances and property.
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Billy Ray Cyrus Casting Models For "Achy Breaky Heart" Remix Video
January 7, 2014 | 12:15 PM
by Soren Baker
Country singer Billy Ray Cyrus is recording a Hip Hop remix to his 1992 platinum single, "Achy Breaky Heart." The singer is already casting models for the song's forthcoming video, according to radaronline.com.
"One L.A. model, who has starred in videos for urban artists including Chris Brown, tells Radar that the shoot will take place in the Los Angeles area by the end of the month," the site reports.
The release date of the single has not be announced.
Last Tuesday (December 31), Larry King tweeted about the remix.
Just spoke with @billyraycyrus on the phone – he's recorded a hip-hop version of 'Achy Breaky Heart' – he's excited about it & so am I!
— Larry King (@kingsthings) December 31, 2013
Billy Ray Cyrus is the father of Miley Cyrus, who was featured with Wiz Khalifa and Juicy J on Mike WiLL Made-It's "23" single last year. In 2013, she also twerked at the MTV Video Music Awards and at a Juicy J concert in Los Angeles.
Mike WiLL said that criticism for Miley Cyrus is unwarranted and that she will likely be criticized for anything that she does because of the level of success she has obtained.
"People are going to hate," Mike WiLL said. "A lot of times, it's the media that is hating and not the real people, the real people are saying, 'What's the big deal?' Anything she does, if she claps her hands three times they will say, 'Oh man, why didn't she clap four times?' If she came out to the [MTV] VMAs and she wasn't twerking and she wasn't doing all that, everybody would've said, 'Oh she was supposed to twerk. Why didn't she twerk? She's not real.' They would shoot her down regardless because she is successful."
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SS Independence
Captain T. D. Lucas
January 9, 1852, Daily Alta California, San Francisco
ARRIVAL OF THE
Six Days Later from the Atlantic States.
Arrival and Magnificent Reception of Kossuth in N. York.
Organization of Congress.
Lynn Boyd, of Kentucky, elected Speaker of the House of Representatives.
OUTRAGE ON THE STEAMER PROMETHEUS
Illness of Henry Clay.
The fine steamer Independence, of Vanderbilt s Independent Line, commanded by Capt. Lucas, arrived in our harbor last evening at 11 o clock. She left San Juan del Sud on the 22d of December at 7-1/2 P.M., and has consequently made the run in about 17 days. We tender our acknowledgements to Capt. Lucas for stopping his steamer in the lower bay to permit our untiring marine reporter to come on board.
Purser Freeborn has our thanks for memoranda, passenger list and files of latest papers.
To Gregorys Express we are indebted for late New York papers and the delivery of our correspondence.
Berford & Co. also have our thanks for the early delivery of files of the latest New York Papers.
The Independence brings two hundred and fifty passengers, a list of whom will be found under the proper head.
We have no further intelligence of the state of the revolution in Nicaragua.
By this arrival, we have received dates from New York to the 8th of December. This is six days later than previously received by the Northerner from Panama. The intelligence, though of no particular moment, is of very great interest.
Aldrich, W.
Allen, C. E.
Arnold, S.
Arnold, Sam D.
Atkire, J.
Averill, H.
Averill, William
Bailey, James A., Jr.
Barbour, T. T.
Barnes, N.
Baxter, D.
Baxter, J.
Blight, William
Bolton, O. H.
Boomer, J.
Bostwick, V. M.
Botham, J.
Boyd, O.D.
Bray, J.W., lady and two children
Brown, Capt. A.
Bryant, Mrs. G. W.
Bryant, S.S.
Bullard, Mrs. E. M., child and servant
Burgess, H.
Busby, L.
Calahan, C.
Carpenter, Dr.
Carter, E.
Cassa, Joseph
Caulfield, Mrs.
Chalmers, J.
Chettle, T.
Chipchase, J.
Clarke, G. W.
Cox, Swan
Crowell, Dr.
Crumb, Thomas
Culver, S. M.
Daniels, N.
Doll, G. W.
Don, R., wife and infant
Downing, W. P.
Drake, William
Ellis, H.
Ellis, J. H.
Farnham, George W.
Floyd, J.C. and lady
Foley, M.
Follett, E.
Freed, A. D.
Fregloan, J.
French, Mrs. J. A. and two children
Frye, C.
Frye, L.
Frye, S.
Gallagher, P.
George, I.
Gilman, J. R.
Goldsworthy, R.
Gren, William
Gwillim, P. G. (listed as Gwlilum, but possibly a typo given that there is another Gwillim on board)
Gwillim, R. W.
Hannath, C. J., wife and family
Harris, F.
Haskell, J. (Might be I. or L. Haskell. Difficult to read.)
Hastings, R.
Helmer, H.
Hoffman, Mrs.
Howe, C.
Howe, H.
Howell, J.
Jeffers, M.
Johnson, J.
Jordan, William
Keith, Howard
Kelaher, F.
Kerrican, P.
Kidder, Mrs. M. and boy
King, John
King. M.
Kyle, Stephen H.
Leunner, J.
Lockwood, J.
Lyon, G. H., wife and two children
Maise, D.
McArdle, Pat
McCormick, J.
McCutchings, S.
McLaughlin, P.
McLaughlin, Thomas
McMillen, C.
Monntfort, M. L.
Moody, E. G.
Moore, J. H.
Moutry, J.
Nichols, J.
Norton, Miss
O Meara, John C.
Osgood, S. S.
Owen, J.
Petty, J.
Pollard, F.
Prunty, P.
Prunty, Pat
Ray, P.
Reed, E.
Reed, F.
Reynolds, H.
Reynolds, Miss
Reynolds, W.
Rice, B.
Rich, D.
Ricker, J.
Ripley, Tim
Roberts, N.
Rogers, E.
Rye, L.
Salisbury, J.
Sauters, S. O.
Sawyer, D. H.
Secor, J. (A guess. The "e" is actually unreadable)
Sheen, D.
Short, D. M.
Short, J., wife and two children
Short, John, Jr.
Skillman, Archibald
Smith, H. G.
Smith, Mrs. A. and two children
Smith, S.
Snow, Mrs. Lucy E.
Soule, Mrs. Hannah
Springer, H. M.
Steuart, C. V.
Stevens, C.
Stevens, William H.
Stock, C.
Store, Charles
Thomas, Capt. T. C.
Thompson, J.
Tinkham, A.
Toombs, A. W.
Treman, J.
Tuttle, Robert
Van Dozen, H. M.
Van Dozen, William J.
Van Duzen, T. (This is probably Van Dozen because two other passengers are listed thusly)
Van Martes, J.
Vandewater, Mrs. R. J.
Vela, G.
Vose, A.
Vose, E. S.
Waddell, Mrs.
Waddell, William
Walton, J. H.
Warlock, J.
West, William
Willis, W. N.
Wilson, Mr.
Yeomans, T. W.
Central America 1862
by Dilbryado
Featured are the counties and territories of Vera Cruz, Oaxaca, Tobasco, Las Chiapas, Estado de Yucatan, Guatemala, Honduras, San Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and Nueva - Granada. Also shown are the Rio Pirri, Rio de las damas, Rio Naranjos, Rio Savagre, Rio Barru, Rio Dominion, Rio Ximenes, Rio Lagarlos, Rio Chomes, Rio Aranjuez, Rio Naranjo, Rio Tengas, Rio San Carlos, Rio Costa Rica, Rio San Fray, Rio Castillo, Lago de Nicaragua and many other creeks, rivers, lakes, points, capes and other landmarks of interest.


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This is a list of bridges in Portland, Maine.

 Casco Bay Bridge (Completed in 1997 to replace the Million Dollar Bridge over the Fore River. It connects Portland and South Portland.)
 Martin's Point Bridge (Original bridge was completed in 1828. New bridge opened in June 2014.)
 Million Dollar Bridge (defunct; completed in 1916. Replaced by the Casco Bay Bridge. It spans the Fore River and connects Portland and Falmouth)
 Tukey's Bridge (Original bridge was in 1796 as a toll bridge. Current bridge was completed in 1960. Connects Munjoy Hill neighborhood with East Deering neighborhood.)
 Veteran's Memorial Bridge (original was built in 1954. A new bridge by the same name was completed in 2012. It spans the Fore River and connects Portland with South Portland.)

References

Bridges, Portland
Maine transportation-related lists
Portland, Maine

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Government Relief Measures for KSA during COVID-19
The General Authority for Zakat and Tax (GZAT) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has announced a number of measures to assist businesses overcome the difficulties arising from the COVID-19 pandemic.
The due dates for filing tax returns that are due for periods ending between 18 March 2020 and 30 June 2020 have been extended for three (3) months. The concerned returns include those for:
Zakat and Corporate Income Tax
Excise Tax.
Accordingly, the above move will defer the payment dates of these taxes to GZAT thus relieving the pressure on corporations to secure and make these payments.
The following tax returns will be affected:
TAX TAX RETURN PERIOD DUE DATE DEFERRED
Value Added Tax 1 January 2020 31 March 2020 30 April 2020 31 July 2020
Value Added Tax 1 February 2020 29 February 2020 31 March 2020 30 June 2020
Value Added Tax 1 March 2020 31 March 2020 30 April 2020 31 July 2020
Value Added Tax 1 April 2020 30 April 2020 31 May 2020 31 August 2020
Value Added Tax 1 May 2020 31 May 2020 30 June 2020 30 September 2020
Excise Tax 1 March 2020 30 April 2020 15 May 2020 15 August 2020
Withholding Tax 1 March 2020 31 March 2020 10 April 2020 10 July 2020
Withholding Tax 1 April 2020 30 April 2020 10 May 2020 10 August 2020
Withholding Tax 1 May 2020 31 May 2020 10 June 2020 10 September 2020
Zakat and Corporate Income Tax 1 January 2019 31 December 2019 30 April 2020 31 July 2020
Further measures introduced are as follows:
Fines resulting from delayed tax return submissions and tax payments have been suspended for the period from 18 March 2020 till 30 June 2020
Fines resulting from non-cooperation from a taxpayer and for examination by GZAT have been suspended for the period from 18 March 2020 till 30 June 2020
Fines for late payment of installments have been suspended for the period from 18 March 2020 till 30 June 2020
The submission of bank guarantees to GZAT has been suspended for the period from 18 March 2020 till 30 June 2020
Temporary deferment of Value Added Tax payments for the import of goods by a tax registrant for its economic activities that is payable to the Customs Authority in accordance with the applicable VAT Return for the period which relates to the import
Temporary deferral of Excise Tax payable to the Customs Authority on the import of goods subject to excise tax on condition of payment and the submission of a temporary declaration on the deferred due date
Deferral of the collection of customs duties for a period of thirty days upon submission of a suitable bank guarantee for the next three months
GZAT is to expedite all refund payments due to taxpayers
The above are a welcome alleviation of financial pressures on companies doing business in KSA during the COVID-19 restrictions. Should there be any matters relating to the above for which you require assistance, our Indirect Tax Department is available to answer your enquiries.
Authored byHead of Indirect Tax and Conveyancing,John Peacock
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On September 25th, during Climate Week, SustainAbility co-hosted with NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business a panel discussion focusing on how the financial sector is innovating in response to climate risk.
Panelists shared their perspectives on how the field is evolving, new innovations on the horizon, and sparks of hope for the future.
Representatives from two leading global firms – Morgan Stanley and ING – along with Rob Engle, who heads up the NYU Stern Volatility Institute, shared their perspectives on how the field is evolving, new innovations on the horizon, and sparks of hope for the future.
Ann van Riel, Head of Sustainable Finance, Americas at ING, detailed the success of a new product developed in partnership with Philips that links sustainability performance to loan rates. Improved sustainability performance is rewarded with a discount, incentivizing lenders to focus on and improve sustainability performance.
Courtney Thompson of Morgan Stanley's Global Sustainable Finance team, described how the company is committed to investing $250 million in low carbon solutions by 2030, including developing green bonds with Starbucks to support ethically grown certified coffee, as one example.
While companies are both leveraging opportunities and managing the risks that climate change presents by developing products and new capital investment approaches, Rob Engle and his colleagues at the Volatility Institute are providing critical thought leadership to the field by developing models that assess climate risk. Their V-Lab measures performance over time of 100 publicly traded environmental portfolios and can help us understand the factors that may lead investment strategies to do well when the impacts of climate change are high.
In a period of uncertainty about climate policy (at least in the U.S.), it is reassuring to know that some of the smartest minds in the private sector and academia are hard at work innovating for the future.
Based in our New York office, Sarah works with our clients to leverage the power of business to align business goals with environmental and social progress.


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Delhi to get first exclusive public toilet for third gender
(Photo: Amlan Paliwal/IANS)
By Praveen Dwivedi
New Delhi, Jan 24 (IANS) It may seem a little late but the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) has finally decided to provide toilets in the national capital exclusively for the third gender.
In its annual budget for 2021-2022, the civic body has proposed to built toilets exclusively for transgender people.
H.P. Singh, a senior NDMC official dealing with the project, told IANS: "Construction of toilets exclusively for the third gender, especially in busy marketplaces, has been a long-pending demand from the transgender community in Delhi. Therefore, observing their requirement, the NDMC has constructed a toilet exclusively for the third gender at Shastri Bhawan."
"The NDMC has built the first toilet for third gender at Shastri Bhavan, which is yet to get in use. We are in the process to identify sites to construct a few more such toilets in the NDMC area," Singh further said.
"They are also allowed to use common toilets but many of them hesitate to use them due to many reasons and we must respect their priorities," Singh added.
Despite scores of transgender people residing in several parts of Delhi — such as Paharganj, Daryaganj, Burari, Shastri Park, Subhash Park, Laxmi Nagar — for decades, there is not a single toilet exclusively for transgender people built by any government authority in the Capital so far.
The under-construction toilet at Shastri Bhawan will be the first exclusive toilet for the people of the transgender community in the Capital.
Delhi, despite being the Capital, has so far failed to provide exclusive toilets for trans-gender people.
The Supreme Court in 2014 recognised transgender people as third gender and had directed the Centre and the states to create separate toilets for transgender people, among other facilities.
Mysuru was the first city in the country where third-gender people were provided exclusive toilets. After Mysore, Bhopal became the second city where a toilet for trans-gender people was built in 2018 and after that many other state governments began building toilets exclusively for them.
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It Wasn't the Cows After All
On June 18, 2019 By North Carolina Small Farm AssociationIn Uncategorized
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While the cattle industry is repeatedly accused of being the main culprit for increased global methane emissions (and a leading cause for climate change), a new study shows that the fertilizer industry is the root cause.
The report by researchers from Cornell and the Environmental Defense Fund, published in Elementa, shows that emissions of methane from the industrial fertilizer industry have been ridiculously underestimated (and, it turns out, based on self-reporting) and the production of ammonia for fertilizer may result in up to 100 times more emissions than previously estimated for this sector. What's worse is that these newly calculated emission amounts from the industrial fertilizer industry are actually more than the total amount the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimated for all industries to emit across the U.S.
Researchers used a Google Street View car equipped with a high-precision methane sensor to measure the emissions of six fertilizer plants for this study. They drove the car on public roads, downwind from the facilities to record the methane levels in the air. The study reveals an enormous disparity between EPA estimates and actual emissions levels. The team discovered that on average, 0.34 percent of the gas used in the plants is emitted to the atmosphere. Scaling this emission rate from the six plants to the entire industry suggests total annual methane emissions of 28 gigagrams, which is 100 times higher than the fertilizer industry's self-reported estimate of 0.2 gigagrams per year. In addition, this figure far exceeds the EPA's estimate that all industrial processes in the United States produce only 8 gigagrams of methane emissions per year.
The fertilizer industry uses natural gas both as the fuel for its operations and as one of the main ingredients for ammonia and urea products (aka the world's most commonly used nitrogen fertilizers). Since natural gas is largely methane, it has serious potential to be a significant contributor to climate change, and the fact that use of natural gas has grown in recent years has previously raised questions on who's to blame for rising methane emissions. If it's been no surprise that natural gas can contribute to climate change, and these facilities rely so heavily on natural gas for production, how could these numbers have been so egregiously underestimated in the first place? It seems this billion-dollar industry made it a point to direct the finger of blame elsewhere.
Now that the fertilizer industry numbers are in, and there is further evidence disproving the widely held assumption that cattle are solely to blame for the spike in global methane emissions, will we stop blaming the product and instead blame the system? If we only move from condemning one product to another, we'll never make meaningful change. Instead, if we think systemically, there are solutions that can start making a change right now. We've said it before and we'll say it again: When it comes to livestock production, well-managed grazing animals will not only help feed the world sustainably by using pasture, rain and sunshine to make high-quality food, but can even help to mitigate climate change through carbon sequestration. This is a system that works, positively benefiting us and the earth.
It is abundantly clear that agriculture as a whole is still a major contributor to global GHG emissions, and many of its climate change-contributing factors need to come to an immediate end. But suggesting that people go vegan, or limit consumption to a single forkful of meat per day, will not stop global warming. Plants are not the be-all and end-all of a sustainable diet. As it turns out, the chemical fertilizer being used for large-scale vegetable production (or even your backyard garden) has more serious consequences than we ever thought. Choosing products from pasture-based systems can truly impact our world for the better, and with eyes wide open to the facts in front of us, demanding a change to the system itself is the only way forward.
Those of you who know me will recognize my constant refrain around "unintended consequences." We are now in a scenario where advocates have been pushing chicken and veganism to save the world, and have just learned that all the "data" behind this push is wrong. All of the environmental footprint studies need a re-do. Once cattle—raised on grass without synthetic fertilizer—are accurately assessed, I predict we will be left with chicken and some plant products as top line polluters. As we always say, it's complicated. But we have to get it right.
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SOUTH UNION STREET
House approves redistricting map after 16-hour reading
Brian Lyman
The Alabama House of Representatives approved a new district map after a marathon 16-hour reading of the bill over two days.
Black legislators, saying the GOP-proposed map did not address federal judges' concerns over improper use of race in the drawing of districts, moved for the reading after majority Republicans voted to end debate Tuesday. The reading of the 539-page bill consumed Tuesday evening and ate up nearly all of the chamber's meeting time on Thursday.
The bill now goes to the Senate, where it could be vulnerable to a similarly lengthy reading, consuming increasingly valuable time in the session. There are four days left in the 2017 session. Rep. John Knight, D-Montgomery, the leader of the House Black Caucus, tied the strategy to the state's shameful history of slavery and segregation.
"Some people are upset that we used the rules," he said. "We have to use the rules, because that's all we have. We serve constituencies that's been left behind, and whose forefathers didn't have the rights your forefathers did."
A three-judge panel struck down the state's maps in January, following guidance from the U.S. Supreme Court, which raised questions about the composition of the map approved by the Republican-controlled Legislature in 2012. Black legislators sued to overturn the map, saying that Republicans pushed black voters, who tend to vote Democratic, into a handful of majority-minority counties, making it harder for the them to form alliances with like-minded white voters and pick their preferred leaders, muting their voices in the process.
Republicans said they were trying to make up population losses and maintain minority percentages in the districts. The new maps reduced racial polarization in some districts, but Democrats said they made only minimal changes and preserved what they consider problematic boundaries. Democrats raised particular concerns about the shape of Jefferson County, in which Republicans hold a one-seat advantage in part by drawing GOP legislators who live outside the county into it. Democrats pushed unsuccessfully for a new map that they said would establish political parity and keep the county whole. Republicans said keeping Jefferson County whole would mean splitting other counties.
The maps, if winning final approval, will go back to court. Democrats say they will argue against the map. The courts could accept the map or potentially order new ones drawn. Any decision would likely lead to appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court.
House Speaker Mac McCutcheon, R-Monrovia, said early Thursday morning that he believed the maps would survive court muster.
"It's always a piece of legislation that is debated, (with) the pros and cons and becomes contentious," he said.


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