In the 11.5 content, under the Instancing folder, there's a Instanced_SpaceStation folder with the Starship.lws scene which I left rendering overnight, and it rendered from frame 0 to 155 in two machines using Amleto. The only two things I changed were maximum samples to 16 and the multiplier to 100%, so the frame size is 1920x1080.
Loading the scene in Layout again and going frame by frame I can't tell what's wrong, but there is so much wireframe from the instances that I can barely tell.
go to volumetrics tab, and make sure the hypervoxels are activated, it was off by default...set it to on.
a setting of four in the lights render panel is usually enough, but maybe you could raise that to 6-8 perhaps.
Cant tell for sure what it is though.
Thanks, but could the AA method or samples change the position of objects in some way? I mean it seems to me that the instance engine is getting confused and drawing them in different places but not in the right sequence. I'll try changing to classic or fixed just in case.
the aa is connected to the issues of the instancing, more likely it could be the motion itself from the instances that causes it.
Right, wouldn't it be a better solution to have a sphere roughly the size it is now, but have particles assigned to the model? That's possible, right? That way the hypervoxels wouldn't be in the middle of the action, just around it.
sphere bounding box so to speak and not within the sphere, the star sphere also lets you use different magnitudes of luminosity.
if you were to do it the way you say, you have to deal with two objects, the sphere and the particles, and that means make the sphere object set to 100 dissolve and set no shadowing etc..then set particles right etc, so it´s easier to just use the star sphere command in modeler.
You could also use textured environment and some procedurals for background stars, but I would not recommend it for animations.
image below ..I just rescaled the stars in the original scene, and as you can see they are indeed spherical in their boundaries so to speak...however I noticed that since the planet has some object dissolve in the planet render properties and in it´s layers, the stars seem to shine through to much behind, so much that it looks like the stars are over the planet surface, you could set the object dissolve for the star sphere to dissolve by distance or some other trickery to avoid that.
Edit...the stars next to the planet looks like they overlap the planet surface...in VPR...might look correct in final render it seems.
Also...I think the lenflare for the sun light behind the planet should use glow behind objects, as it is now it seems like it glows to much in front of the planet.
Another glitch with this scene, except for these..
1. hypervoxels not activated, turn it on in volumetrics panel.
2. star sphere too small..needs rescaling and adjustment of hv size.
3. hypervoxels do have a turbulence fractal in the luminosity channel to make the stars have different brighness, but the layer opacity is set at 200, and that makes the stars exceed some values in darkness, thus you get some stars becoming black, and in the final render they show up as dark points/splotches, so..it´s bes to set that layer opacity to 100.
4. Lensflare seem to glow too much over the planet.
Actually I deactivated the HVs so I could focus better on that instancing problem because it's been driving me crazy and at some point I would like to use this scene for some project. I narrowed the problem to the first instance generator of the Space station wheel object, the one that is set to polygons and has 6712 instances. I've been running several renders at low resolution and AA of 96 frames isolating the different generators but also the two inside the surface generator. So after a few renders I realized that the problem is definitely the Polygons instance generator, but I still can't figure it out what's wrong, it could be because of my inexperience with Lightwave, or perhaps some other glitch. Perhaps this worked perfect in 11.5 but something changed in 11.6 that makes it go crazy like that. I changed some things in the generator but the glitch is still there and I already spent most of the morning rendering tests so I will leave this for another time. It had a crazy long number as Random Seed, I changed that to 1. I also changed all the properties that had any "Random" to "Uniform". Other than that, I have no idea what to do. I changed the camera so it's really close to the glitch area, and it's like the surface of some instances change positions between frames.
Thanks for the suggestions on the stars, that's very useful because one of the main reasons I want to use Lightwave is sci-fi related stuff, so it's good to know how to do stars properly.
I promised to showcase some more voxel stuff, and I just uploaded some fiddlings and experiments on picasaweb, mind you..some renders are very poor quality and in some cases interrupted vpr renders, and there´s a mix between using hypervoxels on particle emitters,on nulls, on vertices etc...mixing with dp_sunsky and in some cases I used volumetric lights to acheive godrays, but I wouldn´t attempt doing animated scenes with both hypervoxels and volumetric lights for godrays, you need volumetric aa for volumetric godrays to be good in quality ..and as I mentioned, you are better off saving render time to turn volumetric aa off, the lightwave team need to improve such volumetric handler in order to make use of them both in acceptable render speed.
There´s also some turbulenceFD stuff for testing on volumetric item etc..and theres some images/screenshots of houdini cloud fx, and there´s a few ogo taiki renders..the only infinite procedural texture layer for clouds available for lightwave as a plugin except from crappy old skytracer and ozone.
I haven´t done any description of the stuff, so if you wan´t to know about some image and what I used or did..you have to ask..filenames aren´t correct either to match what the scene is called etc, due to how vpr saves draft renders and the naming of them.
here´s the link to picasaweb with a lot of fiddlings and experiments,not really finished projects.
3hours and 46 minutes for 101 frames, that´s approx 1,20 min per frame and increasing to about 3.20 min per frame depending on how much of the voxels are seen.
I know, that it had been used in BSG, Iron Sky, Defiance and some others was one of the main reasons I bought it. In fact I wouldn't even know what it is if it hadn't been mentioned in one of the BSG Blu-ray extras.
Those renders are really awesome, I love the nebulas. However, how much of that is just Lightwave and how much is with Turbulence FD?
I like the guy flying up the clouds, those clouds look really good, if you wouldn't mind sending me the scene just so I can see the settings I would appreciate it.
The Hypervoxels presets I get with F8 in Lightwave are barely OK, but they don't look too realistic. The nebulas and clouds you have in that Picasa album look way better, but I don't know how much of that is done using Turbulence FD.
The nebulas are all hypervoxels, some sprites, some are mixes between sprites and volumetric lights..volumetric lights with sprite mode on, and textures in volumetric lights, a few of them are using volumetric modes..so none of the nebulas are turbulenceFd, you can do it all with hypervoxels and volumetric lights.
hypervoxels sprites and volumetric ligths in sprite mode renders very fast.
well ...no, that cloud flying scene I will not send, takes a lot of work, some things I have given away, but not this one, advices I can give.
No problem, I understand, but I would like to know if in this case the clouds were also done only with Hypervoxels, no Turbulence FD?
broadcast quality in vue for clouds and in higher resolution, you can excpet 45 minutes or up to hours for a single frame, in this case it took a couple of minutes in lightwave for each frame.
Also only hypervoxels, volume mode, no volumetric aa, medium render quality, no textured shadow, a lot of ambient lighting, some local density dissolve..the rest is a lot of tweaking and balance between thickness opacity and right amount of shadow strengh,and some local density luminosity.
we still need a fix on thickness channel for hypervoxels...It doesn´t work as it should..as it doesn´t work at all, same goes with falloff.
I wish I had some of the newer voxel stuff in modo though, they seem smoother in blending and edges/thickness.
It seems that way to me too, which is why I was surprised to see the stuff you did with Lightwave Hypervoxels, it seems much smoother than those presets, and I tried smoothing them but I didn't get great results.
thickness channel I think, dissolve can sometimes give artifacts over the whole density volume..so one has to be careful with it, it would be best if we could have a density curve function for smoothing out the hypertextures falloff or thickness.
CloudFX in houdini does this kind of density smoothing brilliant....and thus using houdini for cloud effects in superman movies isn´t a surprise, but that´s just one part of the story.
See image of how to smooth it out...smoothness might help too, but it also increases rendertime, and might change overall look too much.
Thanks Michael, great stuff. I'll give it a try later.
I did some small caption description in my gallery, so you can see a little of what I used, if it was hypervoxels, volumetric lights or ogo taiki or turbulenceFD, and did some re arrange of them.
turbulenceFD experiments was only on six images.
I suggest you also look up erikals youtube videos on ogo taiki, and check Mercury3d videos on youtube and his turbulenceFD cloud sample.
To be honest though, I think modo´s voxels might have surpassed lightwave hypervoxels as of today, maybe it might be easier and faster to setup in lightwave, little has been seen from the modo community, and maybe not many people are using it... and also using it correctly, but given time I think we migh see some very good stuff from them too.
And I still have to install that awful 15 day trial of latest modo version before I can tell for sure, what I have seen in blending mode´s and type of items to apply too, and light control, they seem to be more advanced though.
That's very useful, I'll definitely look into that. One thing that Lightwave has that I wish Modo did is lens flares. I have Video Copilot's Optical Flares, but I don't like doing too much in post when it comes to placing things in 3D space.
Now, to do clouds, I assume you start with Puffy Clouds, or something else?
I spent a while trying to get a nice looking cloud, using some of your suggestions and tweaking what I didn't know. I got a fairly decent result, but it seems to me that Modo is better at Hypervoxels. It took me a lot of time in Lightwave to tweak the settings to get to something close to a cloud, but in Modo it was just a few things and that was it. But more importantly, the rendering time is much faster to get the same result. The Lightwave render, using Amleto to slice it so I could use two computers, took 30 minutes and 19 seconds, while the Modo render took 6 minutes and 14 seconds. Both had similar hypervoxels settings, Render quality to "Very Good" in both (actually in Modo is called "Best", but regardless or name, both are the highest setting), and volumetric shadows were set to medium in Lightwave and "Very Good" in Modo, which would be "Good" in Lightwave. So Modo's settings were a notch higher for volumetric shadows, and still rendered in less than one third the time Lightwave did.
I'm not saying this to upset anybody, to brag about Modo or anything, perhaps my test is not totally accurate, I'm just talking about my findings.
I don´t know what you used here, points, particles, nulls? equal amount of particles in lightwave vs modo?
I´t doesn´t take me that long to set up a cloud type voxel in lightwave, but that is because I know them quite well..and I think I got a general good eye to match how they actually look to some degee.
than what we got in lightwave hypervoxels now, the blending mode in modo Is better between each particle or two voxels on nulls for instance, and modo´s voxels can be applied on full geometry ..which should be able to produce better cloud formation than lightwave can produce today.
the look of it, and you can just as good do without it, it should look like the old dynamite plugin for lighwave, it had this nice blending tension between two hv volumes or particles, it was a bit slow though.I think that is a problem they are facing...anyway, modo seem to have similar blending like dynamite and they are smoother than hypervoxels in lightwave.
so there are three or four or more features in modo voxels that are much better, depending on your project you might as well work with modo to get to know them, and maybe alternativly test lightwave from time to time.
modo also uses shadow maps which renders faster..and maybe improved on the calculating algorithms for it.
All this might change for the next lightwave...I do hope so, because otherwise both houdini,cinema4d and modo will leave lightwave behind in the volumetric department...and that I will not have patience with.
Did you turn of volumetric aa? as I mentioned regarding my clip on vimeo of the guy in the clouds, it took around 1 min 20 seconds to 3 min 20 seconds per frame and rendered out 101 frames within 3 hours and 38 minutes.
That isn´t so bad in render times, in fact trying to render clouds with houdini´s mantra (which is said to be fast for volumetrics) it was much slower..but it´s so different in system since I used the cloud fx tools, and the openGL preview is REal time which is fantastic....but starting the render in houdini is a Joke, it takes almost a minute for it to even start the renderer, and then not so fast to render if you want to get rid of noise, lightwave starts to render directly..and this confuses me why houdini does that.
I need to clear some space on my harddrive then I´ll try to test modo again, but another reason I haven´t tested it..that is becuase of the lousy 15 day limit demo, I will hardly be able to evaluate it enough.
For clouds hypertextures I generally use turbulence, that was used for the clip of the guy in the clouds, the only fractal that generates a good edge of the clouds, gardner clouds, fbm, turbulence noise, flow noise is interesting too, but mostly for such billowing thick volume clouds, they do not produce good enough edges as seen in real life clouds.
Helios is a plugin coming to vue for much better clouds, I think it´s just been released..so I have my eyes on that, it will face difficulties like the other workflow with vue Xstream and lightwave together etc.
I used that a lot in my images as you could see, dp_sunsky is fast, and you get additional lights suitable for a sun.
you have to set it by location and longitude etc...which I find harder to use.
I didn´t know modo didn´t got lensflares yet? is that really so...what the other got the other don´t:) how typical.
frame extracted from the clip, the frame res at 1536x642, cam aa 3, one, distant light and one light dome for ambient occlusion lighting 90 degree angle, which means the need of higher light aa set at 4 samples.
Medium quality in both render and shadow quality, high ambient light setting for the hv´s, turbulenceFD used as procedural, depending on choice of procedural it could affect rendertimes a lot.
200 particles and the particle container was 50 meter in height, for this focal view it works, but if you want to zoom out or pan you would need a larger size and more particles.
Hv size was fairly small since I have a few of them, 2 meters roughly..but with a random size of 204.5, which means they are bigger than 2 meters in some places.
For these frames, I would like to get even better edge smoothing(preferably directly in lightwave) and you can for instance raise render quality to very good which helps that, but increases rendertime of course..but I think modo seem to have a better smoothing of it´s voxel engine.
add another turbulence layer affecting that to give variations over the whole volume and not only per particle basis.
Modo seem to have implemented mie scattering, I don´t know that much about it, but it should be a better method of light scattering for clouds..but I don´t know really.
rendertime somewhere between 1.20-3 minutes for this frame, (3 hours 38min for 101 frames) so how you end up with splitting the render on two computers and end up with 30 minutes?... I don´t know., kill volumetric AA as I mentioned, turn of textured shadows..find a balance between amount of particles and hv size, and avoid using all lights, or two lights, one light is enough for most cases unless you need lightning from true light sources within the cloud.
Mr Rid has done some nice samples too, and he often simply renders out the hv cloud or smoke effects in lower resolution and scale up, to get faster renders and the scaling helps smoothing out, I am not so experienced with that workflow and prefer true scale for interaction with other elements, but it might be good to look into for some situations when you can do it that way.
image and clip rendered on my laptop, it would have been much faster on my desktop, still down for the moment..so I could cut the rendertimes much more.
Thanks Michael, lots of great information to assimilate and test things, too much to get back to you in one reply, but just briefly I wanted to mention that you're absolutely right in that Turbulence as a procedural texture is a much better choice than Puffy Clouds; I changed it in my cloud scene and I was able to get a much better looking cloud, and this even setting the quality to medium. In the cloud I did yesterday I forgot to check off the volumetric AA.
have to check the settings for the thread.
And yes, volumetric AA Is very hard to spot any difference between with or without, thus it´s better off, but if using volumetric lights with hypervoxels, you need to have it on, or you will get poor quality in volumetric lights.
so these samples are impossible without the volumetric AA for godrays when using volumetric light and hypervoxels, and that means extremly long rendertimes for such things, and you can expect 45 minutes to hours of rendering for a single frame, but then we are matching roughly rendertimes in vue which needs a certain level of aa to get rid of noise in godrays too, and thus you end up with renders of 45 minutes and hours just the same.
Enhancements of using volumetric lights and hypervoxels would be nice, but Im not sure which other software would handle all those volumetric elements much better?
have you tested modo and add some point cluster or a particle emitter and add a volumetric light and having them cast a shadows and godrays from the gaps in the clouds?
interesting to see how that looks and rendertimes.
I did check modo gallery for clouds, and there are to my surprise very little in that area, maybe the new voxel system is too new so we have to wait before some guys becomes comfortable with it?
Some cool stuff with the volumetric item though, where you can turn any object volumetric(the blanc aeroplane commercial)...and that is what Ivé been shouting for to come to lightwave...for years, but nada so far.
Filling an aeroplane with particles and then use hypervoxels will not be able to match up the quality and look of rendering volumes in shape forms..that is way we need volumetric items such as modo has.
of how many points you add, and to fill it with a lot of points you have to run it several times, and there is no tool to erase points with a brush either, so you have manually delete by different selection methods, which is annoying.
Michael, is there a thread where you describe your Ogo-Taiki settings and experiments? I finally gave in an purchased a license (even if it means having to switch to Windows to run it -- shame there isn't a MacUB64 version), based largely on some of the stuff you've shown from it, and its site's examples of volumetric atmospherics (the setting sun one, in particular).
I would have to revisit them and disect and get back, but don´t know if I have time to do so in the nearest future, depends on.
I have two or three issues with working with ogo taiki..
1. user interface with to many quality settings to adjust.
2.user interace with layers in a drop down list instead of the workflow of having them available like in vue or ozone...though ozone has too many other stuff I don´t like...compared to ogo taiki.
3. It´s hard to set up air properties ...and it´s not really a spectral model ..i think as dp_sunsky is...but sunsky isn´t volumetric...so were lost on both in some ways.
Here´s some ogo taiki samples..
nothing to like about that.
Best is if the lightwave group extract all the best stuff of the ogo taiki tech and make something new, or if they could get hold of the creator of ogo taiki and buy it ..if it is possible.
list of stuff ogo taiki can do which ozone can´t, and I don´t think they can pull it off to work with particles and with lightwave procedural textures as ogo taiki can.


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Shower your love with perfectly plump French eclairs this Valentine's Day!
All my life, Valentine's days had been characterised by a string of bad, cheap candy. As a child it was those chalky-textured candy love hearts in ghastly pastel colours with barely visible and mostly indistinct love phrases printed on them. As I got older, Valentine's were marked with heart shaped boxes of foil wrapped "chocolates". I don't know what it is about February 14, but we seem hellbent on celebrating Love Day with cheap quality, poor tasting treats. Personally, I'm over it.
This year, I wanted to encourage you to ditch the mass produced sweeties with things of a more homegrown variety: French eclairs. Eclairs are decadent. They're best enjoyed chilled, they should be filled 'til bursting and dipped in chocolate. The fillings can vary from creme to custard to chocolate spread. They can be ornately dressed or demure and understated.
Keep the batter the way it was intended, a classic, rich unflavoured choux or add flavourings such as cocoa powder, red velvet or anything you fancy. Play it safe with the embellishments or go all out and come up with a daring garnish for your pastry treats. No matter what you do, these dainty, delicious buns are an ideal way to celebrate Valentine's Day and they sure beat the hell out of those conversation hearts and cheap sugary chocolates.
I first shared these Triple Chocolate Eclairs with you last year, just before Valentine's Day. I wanted to keep them simple, three types of chocolate makes them incredibly rich, especially when one of those chocolates is Nutella.
I decided to add the fondant sugar hearts for a pop of colour and to break up the chocolate on chocolate on chocolate action. They add an extra bit of sweetness to the eclairs, too, which is always welcome in a treat. You might be surprised to find that these aren't as sweet as you were expecting, though. The mascarpone that gets folded into the Nutella helps to keep things delicately in balance and the eclair turns out being a little bit sweet and a teensy bit savoury.
If you have to avoid gluten in your diet, these next eclairs are for you especially! They're my popular Gluten Free Red Velvet Eclairs! I first shared these just a few weeks ago before Christmas and they went down a storm on Pinterest and Instagram.
I love that the freeze-dried raspberries look like jewels dotted in a sea of indulgent chocolate on the tops of these pastries. They're filled with a basic cream cheese frosting filling, as you would find on a traditional Red Velvet cake and, like any good eclair, they're dipped in milk chocolate.
When I was first diagnosed with Coeliac Disease, eclairs and choux pastry were one of the first desserts I mourned. There's no way around flour in when making choux batter and I was skeptical that gluten free flour could yield the same telltale texture of choux that I was used to. One day, desperate for a familiar treat, I got stuck in modifying my usual choux recipe into the gluten free one I've shared with you. I was delighted! One of my favourite desserts was once again available to me! To celebrate, I spent the next few opportunities I had, making gluten free choux pastry until I perfected the substitutions.
No matter which recipe you follow this Valentine's Day, I know you'll enjoy these yummy eclairs as will your significant other!


Our fundraiser of the week is Katie Howell, who is one of the organisers of the Spring Performance Car Action Day at Castle Combe on Saturday 7 April.
The event, which will be helping raise money for Action for M.E., will feature modified motors, drift demo, track action, club displays, passenger rides with the Mighty Minis where the public can purchase laps around the track, and more.
We'd like to thank Katie and the Spring Performance Car Action Day team for taking this chance to raise money for us and awareness of M.E.


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Russian Revolution: Ten propaganda posters from 1917
By Vera Panfilova
State Central Museum of Russian Contemporary History
duration 5 November 2017
The Russian Revolution was a time of great upheaval but also great creativity.
As events take place to mark the 100th anniversary of the uprising, here are 10 classic images that rallied the masses in 1917.
'Loan of Freedom'
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The cost and effort of fighting in World War One took a huge toll on Russia and fuelled the rebellion against the tsar in early 1917.
Boris Kustodiev's famous painting of a soldier with a rifle urged Russians to give money to the war effort. The poster was produced in February 1917 to advertise the "Freedom Loan" and the soldier went on to appear in many other posters until the second Russian rebellion in October.
Revolutionary days
In March 1917, Moscow's Voskresenskaya Square and the city's parliament building became a focal point for revolutionary rallies. This poster depicts the enthusiasm and anticipation people felt for the revolution, which they saw as the beginning of a new era. All this took place against the backdrop of war.
This is not really a poster. It is an illustrated leaflet that shows power in Russia was personified. These men are the leading political figures of the day - members of the Provisional Government. Mikhail Rodzianko, Chair of the State Duma (parliament), takes centre stage. The government's first socialist and future head, Alexander Kerensky, sits in the bottom left corner. At the top, armed men hold slogans reading: "Land and Freedom!" and "Only in battle will you obtain your rights!" For the moment, there are no Bolsheviks.
The changing wind
This comes from the leftist publishing house Parus, founded before the revolution by writer Maxim Gorky. Their posters were often created by famous poets and artists such as Vladimir Mayakovsky and Alexei Radakov. The top image shows a soldier defending the bourgeoisie with the caption "This is who the soldier used to defend". The second, post-revolutionary, image features banners bearing the slogans, "Land and freedom!", "Democracy and the Republic!" and "Liberty!" The caption reads: "That's who he defends today".
In March 1917, Tsar Nicholas II abdicated and State Duma deputies formed the Provisional Government. This poster is entitled "Memo of the people's victory". It shows a humbled tsar handing over power to revolutionary forces, symbolised by a soldier and a worker. In the background, you can see the Tauride Palace, where the State Duma met. Above it, a rising sun, symbolising freedom. It was a favourite symbol in posters of this period.
Social pyramid
This is another Mayakovsky-Radakov collaboration for Parus. Clearly a caricature, the poster shows the tsar at the top with his ermine robe flowing down on either side to cloak the people. From top to bottom: "We reign. We pray for you. We judge you. We protect you. We feed you. And you work." The most popular satirical stories until the summer of 1917 were anti-clerical and anti-monarchical, aimed specifically at Tsar Nicholas II and his wife.
On the campaign trail
In the autumn of 1917, Russia began its first ever general election campaign. It was both fierce and uncompromising. Dozens of organisations took part, but the largest was the Socialist Revolutionary Party. The words on this poster read: "Comrade citizens! Prepare for demonstrations on the day of the opening of the constituent assembly!"
'Anarchy will be defeated by democracy!'
This is a poster from the liberal Cadet Party, which uses a combination of animalistic and mythological images: the giant lizard represents anarchy and the knight on a white horse is democracy.
Breaking the chains
The Socialist Revolutionary Party's election poster was simple, aimed at workers and peasants. "The Socialist Revolutionary Party - Only in battle will you obtain your rights!" They conducted a very competent campaign. Their victory was achieved with the slogans "Land and freedom!" and "Tear off the chains and the entire world will be free".
The Bolshevik Party (the RSDLP) was slow to the poster game. This 1917 election campaign poster simply says: "Vote for the RSDLP list".
RSDLP stood for Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. In Russian the letters were RSDRP.
When the civil war broke out in November 1917, the Bolsheviks quickly caught up and this style of poster influenced Soviet propaganda. A group of Soviet artists including Mayakovsky and Radakov created the famous Okna ROSTA (ROSTA Windows) brand. The posters were simple and the messages were short, sharp and clear. The brand became the Soviet hallmark and eventually, a global design classic.
Vera Panfilova, director of Fine Art at the State Central Museum of Russian Contemporary History, was speaking to BBC Russian's Alexandra Semyonova.
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We have received the following press release from Derbyshire County Council.
Community transport users will continue to receive life-line services as Derbyshire Connect buses are rolled out countywide.
We have pledged to continue supporting Dial-a-Bus (DAB)- style 'shopping' buses and aCTive Travel journeys to healthcare appointments.
These services are for people unable to use conventional transport because of mobility difficulties or because they live in areas − usually rural − where public transport is limited.
A new Derbyshire Connect service has been trialled in the Ashbourne and Wirksworth area since February. Contracts to operate the service across the county have now been awarded and will start in October − continuing to take people to supermarkets, shops, banks and medical appointments at hospitals, clinics, the doctors, dentists and opticians.
Funding for DAB and aCTive Travel services is currently provided by the council to the county's six community transport schemes through grants.
Following a legal challenge, which makes it more difficult to provide funding in this way, the new Derbyshire Connect services will be run under contract.
Ashbourne Community Transport, based in Ashbourne, won the contract to provide shopping buses to cover the Derbyshire Dales, High Peak and South Derbyshire.
Community Transport for Town and County (CT4TC), based in Chesterfield and Ripley, will run shopping buses in Amber Valley, Bolsover, Chesterfield, Erewash and North East Derbyshire.
South Derbyshire Community Volunteers Service, based in Swadlincote, will provide journeys to medical appointments in South Derbyshire and in the south of the Derbyshire Dales.
Ashbourne Community Transport, Erewash Community Transport, based in Ilkeston, and Community Transport Swadlincote will run services to healthcare appointments in Amber Valley and Erewash.
And CDGi Training Limited − a specialist healthcare transport provider based in Eckington – will put on aCTive Travel services in Bolsover, Chesterfield and North East Derbyshire.
Bakewell and Eyam Community Transport, based in Bakewell, The Bureau − Glossop's voluntary and community network – New Mills Volunteer Centre and Voluntary and Community Services Peaks and Dales, based in Ashbourne and Buxton, will take passengers to medical appointments in the High Peak and north Derbyshire Dales.
Like the current DAB and aCTive travel services, the new Derbyshire Connect services will still need to be booked but will continue to run door-to-door with passenger assistants on hand to provide extra assistance, where necessary.


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Posted on March 5, 2019 by index
Ryan Babel is finally the member of the Fulham Team and is going to be a permanent member of their team after getting the transfer from the Besiktas team.
Babel, who had played for Liverpool for 146 matches, that is 146 appearances for the team has signed the contract for a short period that will expire at the end of the season. The player has scored 6 goals in all of the competitions combined when he played for Besiktas. The player is 32 years old and plays for the Dutch team internationally.
The impression of the player initially is extremely fine and he believes that the experience in the team is going to be an amazing one. He said that he has the faith that Fulham can stay and he believes that he is there in the team to try and make victory possible and happen to them. He said that he is very excited about the same and he cannot wait to play for the team.
The vice chairman of the club added that the player had scored almost 15 goals in the season entirely, and he has arrived in the team with the help of the manager. He and the coach are very confident that the return of the player to the Fulham team is going to be very good because he is going to be a great addition to every small factor of the squad. The team is five points away from the relegation zone and they have won just three of the 22 matches. It is going to be interesting to see the performance of the player in the new – set up and the motivation that he brings to the team is going to be essential to ensure that it stays in the safe zone in the competition.
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Kick-Ass is a high-flying, action-comedy centered around an average, nerdy comic book loving high schooler named Dave who decides to take a stand for what's right and defend those who can't defend themselves after witnessing countless acts of crime and victimization. Dave Lizewski (played by Aaron Johnson) is an avid comic book reader living and going to high school in New York. He and his friends talk about comic books and fantasize about super hero's while he quietly pines for his crush Katie. After witnessing one-too-many crimes in the city gone unpunished, Dave buys some scuba gear, and crudely puts it together to become Kick-Ass, a real, live vigilante and superhero. Things are fine at first as Dave sets up a Myspace page where he can be reached as Kick Ass to help those in need.
Things take a sour turn when Dave tries to stop a guy who has been harassing his crush. He ends up killing and witnessing the killings of several henchmen of one of the City's most revered crime bosses, Frank D'Amico, who's son Chris is poised to take over the family business but is less than capable as a frail, geeky comic book nerd. Kick Ass meets two other super hero's. A Batman-esque man named "Big Daddy" played by Nicholas Cage, and his sidekick daughter "Hit Girl", played by Chlose Moretz Grace, both whom have massive assassin skills.
Eventually the team is caught by Frank A'Amico and his crew after using his son Chris to lure the hero's into a trap. This is done when Chris dresses up and calls himself "Red Mist". Later on, Big Daddy and Kick Ass are tortured and beaten on a live internet stream which is fed to the news, which Dave's own friends and now girlfriend Katie all see. The beatings are stopped when Hit Girl, who was believed to be dead rushes the room and kills everyone except Kick Ass and Big Daddy, but it is too late, Big Daddy has died.
In the end, Hit Girl and Kick Ass team up and take out Frank D'Amico. But at the end of the film, Red Mist indicates from his father's chair that he will return, as a villain! The Sequel to Kick-Ass is due out next year.
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Drew Doughty is a two-time Olympic gold medallist and a two-time Stanley Cup champion. Doughty made his Olympic debut on home ice at Vancouver 2010 where he was the youngest member of the gold medal-winning Team Canada. Doughty went on to compete at Sochi 2014 where Canada successfully defended their place atop the podium after going undefeated in all six games of the tournament. Doughty led Team Canada at Sochi with four goals.
At the 2008 World Junior Championship in the Czech Republic, Doughty was named as a tournament all-star and best defenceman as Team Canada won their fourth consecutive gold medal. The following year, Doughty made his first appearance at the IIHF World Championship where Canada won silver. He later helped Canada win gold at 2016 World Cup of Hockey.
Doughty's NHL career began with him being drafted second overall in 2008 by the Los Angeles Kings. Doughty made the Kings' roster in his first year and has remained with the organization, serving as their alternate captain. Doughty won two Stanley Cups with the Kings in 2012 and 2014). Doughty was awarded the James Norris Trophy as the NHL's best defenceman in 2016, becoming just the second player in Kings' history to do so, after Rob Blake.
Doughty was inducted to the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame in 2012 with his teammates from the Vancouver 2010 Olympic hockey team.
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Nuclear Weapons. Who Needs "Red Lines": Iran or Israel?
Global Research, October 08, 2012
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Region: Middle East & North Africa
Theme: Militarization and WMD
In-depth Report: Nuclear War
by Nabi Sonboli
In his September 23, 2012 speech at the United Nations General Assembly, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked the United States and its allies to define clear red lines for the Iranian nuclear program, emphasizing that Iran will reach the threshold at which it could manufacture a nuclear bomb by mid 2013. A deep scrutiny of the past and of present events and trends tells a different story.
After Iraq's defeat in the 1990 war in Kuwait, Israeli officials focused on the Iranian nuclear program as the main threat to Israel security. At first they alleged that Iran had bought nuclear weapon components from the former Soviet Republics. Then they put aside that argument and stressed that Iran was seeking to acquire nuclear weapons, and would reach that target within a few years and requested that the U.S. and EU to do everything possible to prevent Tehran from achieving that goal. Israel had sufficient influence in the U.S. to see sanctions imposed on the Iranian oil industry in mid the 1990s. But European powers that were tired of following the U.S. and Israeli lead after the end of the Cold War were not prepared to accept these arguments. They improved their relations with Tehran and consequently the attempt to apply U.S. laws regarding Iran extraterritorially failed.
However, the Israeli lobby succeeded in convincing the U.S. of the threat posed by Iraq. Sanctions and military attacks against Iraq continued until that country was invaded by a U.S.-UK arranged coalition in 2003. During the presidency of G.W. Bush, Israel benefited from the support of Neoconservatives who held high office in his administration. Tel Aviv put aside the peace process and launched military attacks against Lebanon in 2006, Syria in 2007 and Gaza in 2009. Israel also encouraged the U.S. to put increased military and economic pressure on Iran. To satisfy Israel, the Bush administration undermined the "EU3's" negotiations with Tehran, and constantly emphasized that "all options were on the table"[1]. However, the U.S. administration was hamstrung, because of the situation in Iraq and Afghanistan. Finally, realities weakened the Neoconservatives and brought Realists back to power in Washington. The bipartisan Iraqi Study Group recommended negotiation with Iran to stabilize Iraq.
The Bush administration found a clever method by which to deflect Israeli pressure and Neoconservative rhetoric. After years of emphasizing that "all options were on the table," the administration had two options- either: (i) to implement their threats or (ii) to take the military option off of the table. The U.S. also gradually began to feel the economic consequences of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq at home and was therefore not able to launch another war. President Bush did not change his position but the U.S. intelligence agencies rather acted to remove the urgency of the Iranian threat. In 2007 the U.S. intelligence community published a National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) that assessed that Iran had halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003. The NIE paved the way for the U.S. to negotiate with Tehran in Baghdad and to join in the nuclear negotiations with Tehran.
The U.S. intelligence community's position on Iran's nuclear program has not changed. Moreover, the current positions of Iran and the U.S. are compatible with one another. The U.S. emphasizes that Iran be prohibited from acquiring nuclear weapons, while Iran emphasizes its right as a signatory of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) to enrich nuclear fuel. The NPT accommodates both of these sets of interests. Consequently Iran and the U.S. have a common basis for negotiation.
During the Bush administration, the Israeli lobby in the United States succeeded in imposing a red line on U.S. conservative establishment policy that was illegal under international law. And that was to insist that no enrichment take place in Iran. The Obama administration changed this redline to one compliant with international law, whereby Iran not be permitted to acquire nuclear weapons. The swap agreement [2] that was proposed and then rejected by the U.S. included tacit agreement to the idea that nuclear fuel could continue to be enriched in Iran. In the recent nuclear negotiations with Iran that took place in Istanbul, Baghdad and Moscow, the EU3+3 have also tacitly accepted that the enrichment of nuclear fuel in Iran can continue; the negotiators have asked that Tehran refrain from enriching nuclear fuel up to the twenty percent purity level—even though such enrichment is legal under the International law.
The Israeli position continues to differ from that of the U.S. and the EU3+3. Tel Aviv emphasizes denying nuclear technology to Iran, but its main target is actually to weaken Iran irrespective of the state of Iran's nuclear program. Israel's main problem is not with Iran but with its immediate neighbors. Tel Aviv has lost its control over its neighborhood and cannot influence the situation there. At a minimum, Israel feels besieged by new, unknown forces. By emphasizing the Iranian nuclear issue Israel is pursuing two goals: (i) to create a new (Iranian-Israeli) conflict so that (ii) the world forgets the old (Arab-Israeli) one.
Due to the fact that Arab governments are concerned about the Iranian nuclear program and Iranian regional influence, Israel has somehow been able to create a loose Arab-Israeli alliance against Iran. We should not forget that Arabs did not condemn the Israeli military actions against Lebanon in 2006 and Hamas in 2009. Saudi Arabia and Qatar are more concerned about Iran than about Israel. The Syrian conflict and Saudi-Qatari support for extremists there demonstrate this very clearly. The question is, if the extremists succeed in Syria, who will their next targets be? Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia or the U.S.? This is why the U.S. and EU are hesitant about intervening in Syria.
What Israel fears most is not Iran but being left to its own devices by the West in an instable region. For the first time, Israel really feels isolated in the region. Because of their internal economic problems, the EU and the U.S. are not capable of defending Israel by going to war. Israel has lost both its supremacy in the region and the commitment of its allies. What Israel is seeking to achieve is to keep the U.S. and EU engaged in the region by maneuvering them into launching another war. For Israel, the costs of the war and the degree of success it achieves are secondary issues. The main objective is a long-term U.S. and EU commitment and involvement in the conflict on Israel's side.
Israeli security is important for the U.S. and EU but not more important than their own interests. The U.S. knows very well that, if the Israelis attack Iran, the U.S. has no option but join them. If they do so, however, they will not be able to defend their own interests. The U.S. has great military power, but many vulnerable interests as well. The EU's vulnerabilities are even more pronounced than those of the U.S. Consequently, long-term conflict in the Middle East will be too costly for the U.S. and EU to tolerate.
Iranian behavior during the past decade demonstrates that Tehran is not seeking nuclear weapons. By implementing the Additional Protocol to the NPT from 2003 to 2005 and by subsequently resolving outstanding issues with the IAEA, Iran demonstrated that its nuclear program is peaceful. Iran's religious leader has issued a fatwa against the acquisition of nuclear weapons as a clear demonstration of Iran's future intentions. This fatwa has the capacity to prevent the proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) in Muslim countries and to prevent the use of such a weapons by Islamic groups.
After years of intervention, sanctions, political pressure, covert warfare and cyber- attacks, Iran has much more reason to be concerned about the real intentions of Israel, the U.S. and its allies than the latter have to be concerned about those of Iran. A nuclear capacity has simply provided a minor form of reinsurance of Iran's security; it does not deter any attack on Iran. But those who intend to attack Iran, should think twice or more. Iranians have now understood the importance attached to such a nuclear capacity in U.S. and Israeli military calculations. This shows that a peaceful nuclear capacity can also contribute to peace and stability—it is not even necessary to have nuclear weapons in order to deter rational enemies.
If we compare the behavior of Iranian and Israeli leaders, we can easily conclude that Iranian behavior has been much more rational. Voluntary cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency, implementation of the modality agreement, acceptance of the swap proposal, cooperation and negotiation with the U.S. to bring peace and stability to Iraq and Afghanistan are all clear indicators of rational behavior in Tehran. If any of the Western countries had faced the threats and pressures that Iran faces, they would surely have behaved differently. Israel will not be able to achieve sustainable peace by force in the new Middle East. Regional concerns about Iran's nuclear program can be solved through regional security dialogue. Iran has always supported bilateral and multilateral dialogue with neighboring countries.
U.S. and Israeli options are limited: accept an Iranian nuclear enrichment capacity under the IAEA control or strike and then accept the reconstitution of the same capacity outside of IAEA control. It took many years for the U.S. to change its position from no enrichment to low enrichment. Israel has not yet been able to make up its mind. Someone needs to go to Tel Aviv and help Israelis comprehend that Iran's nuclear capacity is a reality and that Iran is a rational player. The existence of such a capacity in the hands of a rational player that has been engaged and integrated at the regional and global levels, will be different from its existence in the hands of a player that has been attacked by all means. Sanctions, cyber attacks, isolation, and the terrorization of Iranian nuclear scientists have simply exacerbated the situation and led to a loss of Western influence on Iran.
The Middle East is already unstable enough. Israel has just one option: accept the new realities, change its behaviors and look for sustainable peace. During the last decade the U.S. and its allies were the main losers due to instability in Iraq and Afghanistan. Economic and social instability paved the way for moderate Islamists to come to power, but if the instability continues to grow, they will not be able to solve problems and keep their positions. Extremists are at the gate from North Africa to Central and South Asia. These developments have limited U.S. and Israeli freedom of action in the Middle East, not the Iranian nuclear program.
If being moderate or extremist is a criterion for being entitled to possess a nuclear capability, then Israel clearly fails, as it currently has a most extreme government. That is why EU and the US should set a red line for Israel and not let it to impose its policies on them. In recent weeks Israeli officials have repeatedly talked about a military strike against Iran and Western countries have mostly remained silent. Extremists in Israel have clearly demonstrated their intention and if they strike Iranian nuclear facilities, Western officials cannot say that they have not been informed. Those who provide all kinds of weapons for Israel have more responsibility. Just as in the case of the ongoing economic war against Iran, innocent people will be the main victims of any military strike. The Iranian nuclear program enjoys strong national support. U.S., Israeli and EU pressures target Iranian nation, nationalism in Iran and will have long-term consequences for the West.
Netanyahu's request at the UN General Assembly strengthened the well-established belief in the Middle East that Israel and its lobbies determine European and American policies toward the region. With this opinion widespread in the Middle East, Washington and Brussels will not benefit from Arab Spring. It is time for Western countries to stop Israel from intervening in their domestic and foreign policies and for them distinguish between values and interests that they do and do not share with Israel. Netanyahu's speech in the UNGA demonstrated his arrogant approach toward the West. If Western powers cannot control Israel, it will impose at least another three trillion dollars in costs upon them. During the past decades, Israeli officials have followed one imaginary enemy after another: Palestine, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and now Iran are among the list and it will extend to other countries in the Middle East and North Africa. This approach needs to be stopped. The U.S. and EU need to clearly impose the following redlines on Israel:
First: Do not interfere in U.S. and EU politics. Western officials are wise enough to recognize their interests and know how to decide.
Second: Occupation, intervention, violation of Palestinian rights, and the terrorization of scientists are not values and interests that Israel, the U.S. and EU share in common. Tel Aviv must desist from these policies.
Third: A regime which has manufactured nuclear weapons and is not a member of the NPT does not have right to tell an NPT member state what to do.
Fourth: A regime that has repeatedly attacked its neighbors during the past five decades cannot accuse a peaceful nation of having such an intention.
Fifth: Israeli officials should not mislead the international community. It is twenty years that they have been saying that Iran will reach nuclear weapons within a few years. All those years have passed without any nuclear weapon and the next year will also end in the same way.
Sixth: The U.S. and EU are no longer ready to pay the price for Israeli mistakes. Because of past unconditional support, Israel has repeatedly attacked its neighbors and has not learned how to live with them.
Seventh: Preventing war is a global responsibility and the international community will stop Israel from launching another one.
Solving the Iranian nuclear issue has never been complicated. Transparency for recognition is still the best solution. Iran is ready to increase transparency if the other parties to the EU3+3 negotiations negotiate seriously. Iran has not rejected re-implementing the Additional Protocol either. A transparent nuclear program will not endanger anyone's security. Many countries around the world have such a capacity, including Germany, Japan, the Republic of Korea, South Africa and Brazil. Iran has no problem with transparency; the problem is that the U.S. and some of its allies have not been able to recognize Iran's rights, role and interests. The U.S. has tried to exclude Iran from any regional and international mechanism. They have just tactically engaged Iran in some cases such as Iraq and Afghanistan. Israeli pressure has been an important factor, but we should not neglect other domestic and international elements. Iranophobia is not limited to Israeli extremists. Many people, even some elites, in the West suffer from a distorted image of Iran. Reinforcing closed doors by sanctions, isolation, military threats, and cyber attacks will not lead to transparency and cooperation. All sides need to pave the way for doors to open.
[1] i.e. including a possible military attack on Iran
[2] whereby nuclear fuel enriched to twenty-percent purity in Iran would be shipped out of Iran in exchange for enriched nuclear fuel to power the Tehran Research reactor (TRR) supplied from abroad
The original source of this article is Iran Review
Copyright © Global Research News, Iran Review, 2012


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MASK MADNESS: American Air Is 'Reviewing' the Matter After Ted Cruz Photo'd Onboard Without a Mask
Brittany M. Hughes , @RealBrittHughes
July. 14. 2020
American Airlines says they're "reviewing the details" after Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz was photographed onboard one of their commercial flights without a face mask.
The picture was snapped and uploaded to social media Sunday by Hosseh Enad, who works for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. In the picture, which quickly racked up tens of thousands of "likes," Cruz is seen sitting down and browsing on his phone sans mask, which is required by the airline on their flights as part of their current COVID-19 policy.
Captured today at 10:45am — @TedCruz on a commercial flight, refusing to wear a mask. pic.twitter.com/h8DM7J4CMi
— Hosseh (@hossehenad) July 13, 2020
Cruz responded to the photo by claiming that he did wear a mask throughout the airport and during other parts of his travel, but had removed the covering to drink coffee.
Enad responded to that claim, saying, "For those trying to argue that he was drinking, it's not hard to have a mask on and undo one side to take a sip then put it back on. Most people take their time drinking coffee."
Now, American Airlines says they're "reviewing" the matter after the photo went viral. "We are committed to protecting the health and safety of all customers, and we are reviewing the details of this matter," the airline tweeted in response to one user's complaint.
We are committed to protecting the health and safety of all customers, and we are reviewing the details of this matter.
— americanair (@AmericanAir) July 13, 2020
Other photos quickly circulated showing the Texas lawmaker wearing a mask while on a flight.
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As the CBC and Amanda Lang continue to fend off allegations of apparent conflicts of interest over her relationship with the Royal Bank of Canada, more is becoming clear about speaking engagements that the bank helped finance.
The six engagements, five of which Lang received a fee for, were referenced in a report by Sean Craig, writing for media criticism website Canadaland. Craig reported Monday that Lang tried to "sabotage" a major story by reporter Kathy Tomlinson on a labour controversy at RBC and outlined several connections between Lang and the bank.
Lang was, and still is, in a relationship with RBC board member Geoffrey Beattie, which she confirmed to the Star and previously disclosed to CBC management. The marketing materials for her book, The Power of Why, include a positive review by RBC president Gordon Nixon. Craig also reported that Lang spoke "at least six times" at events sponsored by RBC.
In two cases, Lang received no money from RBC — one was done by her for no fee, and in another case she was directly sponsored by a different company, according to event organizers. In one case, Lang charged Mohawk College a $15,000 speaker's fee to talk at its President's Dinner, while the college received a $2,500 donation from RBC — a longtime sponsor who was among the lowest-value donors to the event.
"A conflict of interest is not determined by whether Amanda Lang took RBC's money directly or indirectly. Nor is it determined by how much of RBC's money she took. As we reported: 'RBC sponsored Lang's speeches or events where Lang spoke at least six times.' We stand by the story," wrote Craig in an email when asked about the individual events.
Lang told the Star Monday that she denies that she tried "to kill the story," that she was hiding a potential conflict of interest and that she received money directly from RBC for speaking engagements, though acknowledged they have sponsored conferences she attended. She said her relationship with Beattie has "no bearing" on her journalism.
"I'm the senior business correspondent at the national broadcaster. I will continue to report on the serious business stories, and that includes Canada's biggest bank," she told the Star Monday.
Lang gave the keynote at Connections 2014, a Calgary business conference, but her talk was sponsored specifically by Cenovus Energy. While RBC was a sponsor, it funded new non-profit workers attending the conference, according to the Connections organizer.
RBC also sponsored a panel for the Women's Brain Health Initiative that was moderated by Lang, but for which she was not paid. The bank donated $25,000 to the charity, according to Lynn Posluns, founder and president.
RBC was a minor sponsor at three of the events referenced by Canadaland.
Lang was the keynote speaker at the Mohawk College President's Dinner in 2013. She charged a speaker's fee of $15,000. This was paid for by donations and tickets purchased, but RBC was among the smallest donors, giving $2,500 to the college. They were eclipsed by companies ArcelorMittal Dofasco and L3 WESCAM who gave $5,000 each.
Lang spoke at a 2014 hotel industry investment conference, of which RBC was one of 14 Silver sponsors, each contributing $9,000 to the conference. It's unclear how much Lang charged, but Vicki Welstead, conference organizer, said RBC has been a sponsor for "years" and their support was in no way connected with Lang's appearance.
Lang also spoke as the keynote at the Certified Management Accountant annual conference in Nova Scotia. The conference's platinum sponsor was Bell Aliant and one of three of its gold sponsors was RBC.
Finally, Lang spoke at an engagement in Peterborough organized by the Peterborough Sales & Ad Club sponsored by several agents who work for RBC Global Asset Management. It's unclear how much she charged for the event.
"Amanda Lang has been a speaker at a very limited number of RBC-sponsored events in the past," said Rina Cortese, head of media relations at RBC, who refused to answer specific questions.
"It is ludicrous to suggest that our journalism can be bought by an event's sponsor. Many events have multiple sponsors. Does the fact that RBC was one of many sponsors of the Mohawk College President's dinner to support student bursaries mean we cannot be involved? Should we now stay clear of the Scotiabank Giller awards too?" CBC editor-in-chief Jennifer McGuire wrote in a blog post Monday.
Tomlinson, who spoke to the Star Monday, says the situation raises questions about perceived conflict of interest.
Lang did not respond to requests for comment Tuesday.